Global effort needed to limit effects of pollution, industrial fishing and climate crisis, World Ocean Assessment says The world’s oceans are under “severe and accelerating” pressure from human ...

The Philippines failed in its bid to attain a seat in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member. Zimbabwe, Austria, Portugal, Trinidad and Tobago, and Kyrgyzstan were named ...

Austria and Portugal have won seats on the UN Security Council, ending Germany's 40-year streak. DW examines the foreign policy questions raised by Berlin's defeat. Wednesday's decision in New York ...

UN agency predicts phenomenon that supercharges weather extremes has 80% chance of forming before September The world must prepare for the imminent return of El Niño and the supercharged weather ...

Israeli guards were caught on CCTV appearing to sexually abuse a detainee from Gaza at the Sde Teiman detention facility (pictured) Israel has been added to a UN blacklist of countries that commit ...

The United Nations has “added Israel to the blacklist of sexual violence in conflict zones”, prompting Israel to cut ties with UN chief Antonio Guterres, the country’s ambassador to the UN says. “We ...

The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to support a landmark ruling from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which found states have a legal responsibility to act to prevent the ...

At an emergency U.N. Security Council session Tuesday, world powers denounced the two incidents in the last two days that led to the killing of three peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, saying it's part ...

Indonesian nationals serving as UN peacekeepers killed UN says attacks on force violate international law Israeli strikes hit Lebanon's south and near capital BEIRUT, March 30 (Reuters) - Three United ...

In March 2017, grainy video footage revealed that armed men walked Zaida Catalán, a 36-year-old Swede, and Michael Sharp, a 34-year-old American, through a savanna, sat them down and shot them. The ...

The United Nations rarely moves fast on disarmament. This year, though, it did something unusual. On November 6, the General Assembly’s First Committee, where states debate over questions of ...

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