The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Simon Harris is visiting Lebanon this week against a backdrop of heightened tensions with Israel.

Foreign affairs minister Penny Wong says ‘hard strategic decisions’ need to be made

At Guardian Live event, health secretary says Israel’s decision to break Gaza ceasefire is ‘soul-destroying’ and ‘cannot be justified’

Data collected by two planes suggests large open-cut coalmine in Bowen Basin is releasing methane at higher rates than official estimates

Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the Nasa astronauts who were stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) for nine months, have finally returned to Earth.

Boko Haram fighters disguised as herders killed at least 20 Cameroonian troops in a Tuesday morning raid on the Nigerian border town of Wulgo, local security sources and residents told AFP. Cameroonian troops are commonly stationed across the border in Nigeria as part of anti-jihadist operations around Wulgo, which is…

Israeli military spokesperson Avichay Adraee said troops fired back at gunmen who attacked them, before launching a drone attack.

The development, which was announced by the White House on Tuesday, came after three days of talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Israel is again starving Palestinians in Gaza as its renewed bombardment kills hundreds, many of them children.

British fishermen are up in arms after revealing that EU vessels are loading up hundreds of tonnes of UK-caught fish and whisking it away in lorries bound for Europe

The head of the peacekeeping mission in the country said President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar must put the interests of the South Sudanese people first.