The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Environmental group says industry figures will be obstructive and aim to reduce overall ambition of meeting

Negotiations aimed at forging a global treaty on plastic pollution are being blocked by oil-producing countries and getting bogged down in a "dialogue of the deaf", sources in and around the talks told AFP. Ten days of talks on finalising an international, legally-binding instrument on plastic pollution opened on Tuesday…

Weeks after he was forced to return from Iran, Mohammad Mohsen Zaryab was still searching for somewhere to live in Kabul, where rental prices have soared along with an influx of Afghans expelled from neighbouring countries.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been putting it succinctly, declaring it’s a question of when, not if, Australia recognises Palestine as a state.

Human Rights Watch says US arms used in ‘unlawful indiscriminate’ Israeli attacks that killed Palestinian civilians.

With girls banned from high school and universities, many are turning to religious schools known as madrassas instead. The only other option they have is to try to learn online, clandestinely.

Israeli PM gives interview to Fox News as security cabinet due to meet over his plan

As UN meets to negotiate an international treaty to curb plastic pollution, many favour carbon credit-like offsetting.

Economist Peter Schiff warned Tuesday that President Donald Trump's decision to double tariffs on Indian imports to 50% could "expose the U.S. consumer as a paper tiger," predicting a dollar crash that would "impoverish Americans but enrich foreign consumers, particularly the BRICs."