The Latest Breaking News from The United Nations

Sudan's warring generals have agreed to send representatives for negotiations, potentially in Saudi Arabia, the United Nations' top official in the country told The Associated Press on Monday, even as the two sides clashed in the capital despite another three-day extension of a fragile ceasefire. The talks would initially focus…

The United Nations' World Food Programme said on Monday it will immediately lift the suspension of its operations in Sudan that was put in place after the tragic deaths of its team member.

A ceasefire has been extended in Sudan, though both sides of the growing hostilities are accusing the other of breaking the agreement already.

An estimated 67,000 babies are born on the Indian sub-continent every day. The United Nations has announced that India, already home to more than 1.43 billion, one in every six humans on the planet, this week overtook China and now has more people than any other country.

The 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s monthly radio address Mann Ki Baat will be broadcast today with lakhs of people expected to listen to the popular programme in different parts of the world. It will be a historic moment with the 100th episode also to be broadcast live…

Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, residents said, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s two top generals whose power struggle has left hundreds dead.

Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum on Saturday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire, prompting more civilians to flee and renewed warnings of wider instability if the war is not stopped.

Earlier this week, India firmly told China that its violation of the border pacts has “eroded” the entire basis of bilateral ties and that all issues relating to the frontier must be resolved in accordance with the existing agreements. Read the full story on The Hindu.

The members of the Security Council welcomed the recent visit to Sanaa by the Saudi Arabian and Omani delegations. In a statement, the Council hailed the Saudi-Omani ongoing support to the mediation efforts of the United Nations.

The fighting has reawakened a two-decade-old conflict in the western Darfur region where many have died this week.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has not invited the Taliban administration to a meeting that he is convening with special envoys on Afghanistan from various countries in Doha next week, a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday.