The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Fresh alarm has been raised about the state of the climate after experts announced that ice-free Arctic summers are now unavoidable. 

Record-high greenhouse gas emissions and diminishing air pollution have caused an unparalleled acceleration in global warming, 50 top scientists warned Thursday in a sweeping climate science update.

Ukraine president says it is impossible to predict how many people will die in Russian-occupied areas as he appeals for assistance

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Imagery captures more than 2,500 sq km of area around Nova Kakhovka before and after its collapse

Kyiv says evacuation attempts the subject of ‘targeted strikes’ in Kherson region

Home to most of earth’s biodiversity and a vital buffer against climate change, the oceans have only recently been taken seriously by decision-makers. They were integrated into United Nations climate talks for the first time in 2021, while a landmark “high seas treaty” to protect marine health was finally agreed…

U.N. investigators are compiling evidence on the development and use of chemical weapons by Islamic State extremists in Iraq after they seized about a third of the country in 2014

Kyiv has long called for Ukraine to be admitted to Nato

The U.N. children’s agency and a charity say that an orphanage in Sudan's war-torn capital has been evacuated following the death of more than 70 infants, toddlers and older children over the past couple of months amid unabated fighting between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces

It's 9am, before classes start, and children's shouts and squeals of laughter fill the air around three cottages in a school compound, a hilly area not far from the centre of Mae Sot, a northwestern city on the border with Myanmar.