Independent UN human rights investigators on Thursday called for Iran to immediately halt the execution of 10 men who took part in a protest in the central city of Isfahan earlier this year, warning ...

Satellites can now spot major methane leaks from space within days. Yet only 13 per cent of those alerts lead to any response from the governments or companies responsible.

UN partners launched the Winter Response Plan to help 2.1 million people in Ukraine survive another cold season as the ...

Amar Bendjama, Permanent Representative of Algeria to the UN, was elected on Thursday to serve as the next president of the UN’s Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

As the Iran-US war continues, the key question remains unanswered about how shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will be ...

Food security and child nutrition have improved across the Gaza Strip largely due to a scale-up in humanitarian assistance ...

Flash floods have killed at least 26 people across eastern Afghanistan, including 23 in the mountainous province of Nuristan, ...

As months of conflict continue to devastate communities across Lebanon, families are being left without shelter, healthcare ...

The Security Council is meeting now in New York to debate critical minerals — the lithium, cobalt and copper powering the ...

The UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Wednesday condemned new threats from Nicaragua’s co-president Daniel Ortega to ...

Little progress has been made for the future management of the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which an ...

The UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) reports that 144 migrants attempting to reach Europe are dead or missing due to a series of ...