When conflict erupts, disasters strike or political crises unfold, courts are among the few institutions expected to keep ...

Member States of the International Criminal Court dismissed its lead prosecutor Karim Khan following disciplinary proceedings ...

The amount of land burned by wildfires across Europe has increased by 57 per cent in four years, according to new data from ...

In El Obeid, women and girls now face an impossible choice over something as basic as a bucket of water: risk a drone strike ...

A new mobile UN peacekeeping base in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has allowed local authorities to continue ...

Operating in some of the world’s worst humanitarian hotspots, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) Aviation Service is the ...

The world needs more critical minerals than ever before for electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels, batteries and ...

As fighting intensifies in the Middle East, the United Nations on Friday warned against further escalation in the US-Iran war and the risks to global shipping amid the fight over control of the Strait ...

The UN General Assembly closed its first ever High-level Meeting on road safety on Tuesday by adopting a sweeping new ...

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

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

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.