The Latest Breaking News from The United Nations

In one of the more predictable rites of spring at the United Nations, the Security Council has elected, or actually selected, five new non-permanent members to serve on the powerful 15-member council. While this year's contest lacked some of the drama, debate and deliberation of the past, there were some…

The United Nations warned of possible crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur region, which has been riven by conflict since 2003 and is now the scene of continuous attacks against civilians based on their ethnicity.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said that if she becomes president, she would pardon former president Donald Trump for crimes related to his improper handling of classified documents, if Trump is ultimately convicted.

The United States plans to rejoin Unesco, the United Nations' cultural organisation, five years after the previous administration withdrew its membership over funding requirements and alleged bias against Israel.

The United Nations Development Program says it's secured an insurance coverage to start a ship-to-ship transfer of 1.1 million barrels of crude from a rusting tanker moored off the coast of war-torn Yemen — oil that could cause a major environmental disaster

The United Nations chief says the proliferation of hate and lies on digital platforms and the threat that artificial intelligence can become an uncontrolled “monster” demand coordinated global action

The rodents that once ran rampant in the decades since the no-man’s land in Cyrpus was created and destroyed crops are being driven out by owls

The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria says hundreds of fighters with the Islamic State group held in prisons around the region will be put on trial after their home countries refused to repatriate them

A 24-hour ceasefire came into force in Sudan on Saturday, but with fears it will collapse like previous truces, US and Saudi mediators warned they may break off their efforts to halt the fighting.

The U.N. aid chief says Ukraine faces a “hugely worse” humanitarian situation than before the rupture of the Kakhova dam

Myanmar’s military junta has suspended travel authorisations for aid workers trying to reach hundreds of thousands of people in the cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state, the United Nations’ humanitarian affairs office said on Friday.