The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Entrepreneurs have a key role to play in achieving the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This action plan, which has been adopted by all UN member countries, including Canada, was created to tackle today’s “most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges.”

BALASORE, India: The cause of India's deadliest train disaster in decades was linked to the signal system, the railway minister said Sunday, as families scoured hospitals and morgues for missing relatives with deaths expected to top 288.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed sadness at the loss of lives in the tragic train accident in Odisha that has killed over 280 people and injured hundreds more.

Desperate relatives searched Sunday for loved ones missing after India's worst train disaster in decade claimed the lives of at least 275 people as India's railway minister said the cause and people responsible for the crash had been identified, pointing to an electronic signal system without giving further details.

North Korea's attempt to put its first military spy satellite into orbit failed as its rocket crashed off the Korean Peninsula's western coast

Blast near Dnipro leaves 20 injured; Zelenskiy says Ukraine is ready to launch counteroffensive; Prigozhin says Kremlin factions are destroying Russia

Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin criticises factionalism within Russian hierarchy

Global negotiators have agreed to craft an initial draft treaty to end plastic pollution, a preliminary but crucial step toward tackling one of the most lasting sources of human waste.

At least 15 people have been killed in Senegal following an outbreak of violence after sentencing of opposition leader.