The Latest Breaking News from The United Nations

The United Nations’ food agency has strongly condemned the looting of food supplies and burning of one of its warehouses in a war-torn area in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine

"Ensure U.S. taxpayer dollars don't support the interests of criminal regimes," his letter says.

The ongoing civil war in Sudan has provoked one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in decades, the international chief of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Thursday.

The Australian Government announced it will provide a further two million Australian dollars ($1.3 million) to support reconstruction efforts in the region of last month’s major landslide in Papua New Guinea’s mountainous interior

One of the defendants in the Vatican’s big financial trial has formally complained to the United Nations about the trial

The spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus H5N1 among animals is unprecedented having been found on all continents — except Oceania — with the United Nations calling it “a global zoonotic animal pandemic.”

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Wednesday said his group has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that would be deployed deep inside Israel in case of an all-out war. His televised address came as the cross-border conflict between the Lebanese-based movement and Israel has escalated despite US efforts to ease tensions.…

North Korean state media says Russian President Vladimir Putin will arrive in the country on Tuesday for a two-day visit, his first trip to the country in 24 years

Israel struck Gaza on Monday and witnesses reported blasts in the besieged territory's south, but fighting has largely subsided after a day of relative calm and as Muslims marked Eid al-Adha.