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Nearly nine months after Israeli and US strikes on Iran set off a regional war, the Gulf remains on a knife edge. Iran has all but closed the Strait of Hormuz, which carried a fifth of the world’s oil before the conflict. Attacks on shipping are rising, and efforts to stop a return to full-scale…
From emotional appeals for climate justice to high-stakes negotiations over billions of dollars, finance dominated discussions at COP31 on Friday. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that even tripling adaptation funding for vulnerable countries would meet less than a third of their needs…
Winter supplies must enter the Gaza Strip where “lives are at stake”, the UN and partners said in an urgent appeal on Friday, in the wake of deadly rainfall this past weekend.
New guidance has been issued to ensure that people everywhere can obtain credible climate change information from artificial intelligence (AI) and understand how the technology impacts the environment.
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread amid repeated and ongoing deadly attacks on civilians and frontline health workers by armed groups that are obstructing efforts to stop transmission, UN responders said on Friday.
An Israeli airstrike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital on Wednesday night killed six people, injured 27 others and caused extensive damage.
The World Food Programme’s (WFP) new Executive Director has warned that funding cuts are worsening Sudan’s hunger crisis following his first field mission to the country, where he met families displaced by conflict and struggling to feed their children.
UN agencies on Thursday launched a joint platform at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, that aims to secure access to more than $3 billion in risk financing to protect 75 million people and their livelihoods from climate shocks and natural hazards by 2030.
From flooded homes to melting Himalayan glaciers, the human cost of climate change took centre stage at COP31 on Thursday, as world leaders turned their attention to protecting cities and vulnerable communities, while activists challenged governments to do more.
Kenya began a 42-day countdown to the end of its Ebola outbreak on Thursday, a day after the last patient being treated for the disease went home and 11 people were released from quarantine.
More than 1,000 people were killed in Haiti during the third quarter of this year, as armed gangs continue to terrorize the population in the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, the UN team in the island nation, said in its latest human rights report.
The UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, expressed deep concern about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, as UN member states and partners have been repeatedly delaying sending their support to the Strip.
UN chief António Guterres called for a new global climate justice agreement at COP31 on Wednesday, urging governments to tax fossil fuel companies to help countries bearing the brunt of a crisis they did little to cause. His appeal came as world leaders gathered in Antalya amid unresolved questions…
Early warning systems are saving lives across the globe, but for millions of people the warning never arrives, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, urging the world to protect every person on Earth by the end of 2027.
The situation in southern Lebanon remains volatile and extremely difficult for communities trying to rebuild their lives, UN peacekeepers based there report, despite a significant decrease in hostilities following an agreement in June between the United States, Lebanon and Israel.
Ending cholera as a public health threat by 2030 is within reach, as every cholera death can be prevented with tools that already exist, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
Seventy-one confirmed Ebola cases have been detected along transit routes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since the outbreak began almost six months ago, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
Violence in northern Nigeria is fueling a growing humanitarian crisis across the whole region: 64,000 have fled to neighbouring Niger and several hundred have left for Benin since the start of the year, as host countries struggle to cope, the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
Six journalists who make up the entire newsroom of the Egyptian fact-checking website Matsadash remain in detention, the UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday, warning of proliferating assaults on press freedom by the Government.
The global energy transition took centre stage on the second day of COP31, as countries explored how to move away from fossil fuels, accelerate clean energy and overcome financial and infrastructure barriers standing in the way.