The United Nations on Tuesday warned that humanity saw an unexpected and “unsettling” slowdown in development in 2024 as the global post-p...

Maternal mortality rates have dropped dramatically in the past quarter of a century, but the U.N. on Monday warned that progress had stall...

Last year was the deadliest year for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people dying worldwide, the United Nations said on March 21, calling the ...

Israeli actions in Gaza, including strikes on populated areas in which civilians have been killed, bear the hallmarks of atrocities, the a...

Cuts in international aid could bring an end to decades of progress in fighting child mortality, and even reverse the trend, the United Na...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted a US-drafted resolution on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that t...

More than $50 billion will be required to rebuild Gaza after the 15-month Israel-Hamas conflict in the Palestinian enclave, according to a...

Climate change sparked a trail of extreme weather and record heat in 2024, the United Nations said on Monday, urging the world to pull bac...

Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record highs in 2023, locking in future temperature increases for years to com...

Poverty makes people up to three times more likely to suffer from mental illnesses such as depression and anxiety compared to the wealthy,...

Halving food waste could cut climate-warming emissions and end undernourishment for 153 million people globally, the OECD and the U.N....

The United Nations Security Council on Monday demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and the immed...

It is possible to end AIDS by 2030 if countries demonstrate the political will to invest in prevention and treatment and adopt non-discrim...

The United Nations Security Council on Friday unanimously voted on Friday to end a decade-long peacekeeping mission in Mali after the West...

A United Nations helicopter made an emergency landing at Laiki Sporting Club in Latsia, Nicosia, south Cyprus on Wednesday morning. Members...

On Tuesday November 15, 2022, the world's population reached 8 billion people representing a "milestone in human development...

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Oct. 29 that Moscow has moved to suspend its implementation of a U.N.-brokered grain export deal which ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday (October 12) overwhelmingly condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four par...

Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on world leaders to officially recognize the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Erdogan...

The number of people forced  into modern forms of slavery has risen by a fifth in  recent years to around 50 million on any given day  amid ...