Just hours after war broke out in the Middle East last month, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned the Security Council that the fighting risked “igniting a chain of events that no ...

An Ethiopian man describes how he was tortured by human traffickers as he went in search of his nephew on a now infamous ...

More than 1,700 people were killed and nearly 200,000 more displaced in the July 2025 massacres in Sweida, Syria, UN human ...

The number of children and young people out of school worldwide has climbed for the seventh consecutive year, reaching 273 ...

Almost one month since Israeli and US airstrikes on Iran began, sparking a wider regional war, UN agencies and partners on Friday highlighted the terror among civilians fleeing bombardment, with “no ...

A “new wave of global instability is hitting Myanmar at the worst possible moment,” a UN official in the country warned on ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for the immediate release of the 118 UN staff currently detained worldwide ...

More than four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the “danger is only increasing”, particularly from attack ...

Hospitals are just the latest vital public services to be hit in Cuba, more than a month since Washington took measures to ...

As the war continues to roil the Middle East and compound suffering for civilians across the region, the economic ...

She woke up to messages flooding her phone. Doctored images of her, sexualised and viral, had spread while she slept.

All-time high greenhouse gas concentrations in Earth’s atmosphere continue to drive heat records on land and sea, with ...