UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an immediate end to the renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, saying he is deeply worried by reports that Eritrean forces are present in the ...

A suspected drone strike has left at least 40 dead in Sudan’s Blue Nile State – near the Ethiopian border - according to ...

World trade reached a record $35 trillion in 2025 – but developing countries were held back from greater participation in the ...

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday warned that livestreaming a planned execution by firing squad in the United ...

Escalating violence and human rights violations in the four-year-old Russia-Ukraine war are in the spotlight in the Security Council on Friday following a spate of Russian attacks against civilian ...

The United States has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowing on Friday to “dismantle the ICC, brick by brick” unless ...

Six weeks after Nepal’s deadly flooding disaster, communities are still struggling to rebuild their lives, but they will need sustained help as global warming increases the risk of another Himalayan ...

The Security Council meets top of the hour to discuss Yemen, where a Houthi offensive launched in September has sharply ...

South African jurist and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay was on Friday announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize. She was honoured “for her efforts to promote ...

UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Thursday he was appalled by a wave of attacks that have killed civilians across ...

More than 700,000 displaced people in Tawila, in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region, face severe shortages of healthcare, food, water and protection, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on ...

As world leaders prepare for November’s major COP31 climate summit in Türkiye, record-breaking heat, devastating floods and ...