The Latest Breaking News from Antonio Guterres

With Israel declaring ‘total blockade’ of Gaza, crossing with Egypt is single point in and out of besieged enclave.

There are still a number of unaccounted-for U.S. citizens, U.S. officials said, as the fighting entered its third day.

Syria’s health minister says a drone attack that hit a packed military graduation ceremony in the central city of Homs has killed 80 and wounded 240

The United Nations Security Council has approved a Kenya-led mission aimed at bringing stability to Haiti, where violent armed gangs have taken over parts of the Caribbean country, leaving the economy in tatters.

The president of the European Parliament says she has conveyed the legislative body’s support for the appointment of a U.N. envoy to evaluate the chances of resuming stalemated talks to reunify ethnically divided Cyprus

Kenya is preparing to lead an international police force to combat gang violence in Haiti – an historic first for the East African nation.

Fund delays ‘undermining people’s efforts to rebuild lives’, Guterres says during special UNGA session on catastrophe.

Gang violence in Haiti is escalating and spreading from the capital Port-au-Prince through the center of the country to its two other major cities, Gonaives and Cap-Haitien, with a significant increase in killings, kidnappings and rapes in the past few months, the UN chief said in a report circulated Wednesday.

Guterres says world is plunging into a new nuclear arms race as North Korea says US is pushing it to the brink of war.

More than 28,000 refugees have fled Nagorno-Karabakh, a majority ethnic Armenian breakaway enclave defeated in a lightning offensive by Azerbaijan last week, Armenia said on Tuesday.

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