In a world facing rising conflicts, violence and divisions that are causing great suffering for millions of people, the UN ...

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Along the coast of Tanzania, in East Africa, the Indian Ocean is pushing saltwater ever farther inland, shrinking coconut ...

The UN has condemned continued cross‑border attacks by Houthi forces against Saudi Arabia, including an attempted strike on the capital Riyadh, as fighting inside Yemen drives one of the country’s ...

An Ebola vaccine trial is underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), involving frontline health workers and others involved in the response.

Temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C warming goal set in Paris is now widely considered inevitable. The challenge now is to keep ...

UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts on Monday laid out a grim picture of the human cost of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a spotlight on civilians facing a third wartime winter as well as ...

Six years after COVID-19 killed millions, battered health systems, disrupted lives and brought the global economy to a ...

At the current rate of progress, gender equality would take 171 years to achieve, a new UN report finds as institutions built ...

More than eight decades on, the UN General Assembly remains the place where the UN’s 193 Member States come together to ...

Compare two children born in the same year: one in a country with functioning schools, social services, fair elections and a ...

Renewed fighting in Yemen is deepening an already severe humanitarian crisis in a country where more than 12 million children ...