Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Commentary: Russia can’t — and shouldn’t — be kicked off the United Nations Security Council

Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the removal of the Russian Federation from its seat on the Security Council of the United Nations. According to Ukrainian diplomats, Russia was never formally recognized as a successor state to the Soviet Union, so it now should be deprived of…

Chicago Tribune

90 years of wisdom from Andrew Young

ATLANTA — Andrew Young, who turns 90 years old this weekend, has a resumé Iike few others — pastor, civil rights hero, refugee resettler, congressman, mayor, United Nations ambassador, human rights champion, businessman and Olympic Games recruiter.

Tribune News Service

UK issues just 760 visas as Tory says Zelenksy wants refugees to stay near Ukraine

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps defended the UK's record in welcoming refugees fleeing the Russian invasion amid mounting criticism over the speed of the scheme

Daily Mirror

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Washington Reiterates Support to Autonomy Plan in Sahara

US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Tuesday that Washington supports the autonomy plan, proposed by Morocco in 2007, as a final solution to the conflict over the Moroccan Sahara. "The United States continues to consider the Moroccan autonomy plan as serious, credible and realistic, and as an…

Asharq Al-Awsat

IAEA Says Loses Contact with Chernobyl Nuclear Data Systems

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is no longer transmitting data to the UN's atomic watchdog, the agency said Tuesday, as it voiced concern for staff working under Russian guard at the Ukrainian facility. On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine and seized the defunct plant, site of a 1986 disaster that…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Chief Warns Pandemic Not Over, Decries Vaccine Inequality

After two years the Covid-19 pandemic is not yet over and could be prolonged further due to "scandalously unequal" vaccine distribution, the UN secretary-general warned Wednesday. "The pandemic’s most tragic toll has been on the health and lives of millions, with more than 446 million cases worldwide, more than six…

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘This is a fossil fuel war’: Ukraine’s top climate scientist speaks out

As western governments untangle themselves from Russian oil and gas, Svitlana Krakovska notes that the roots of the climate crisis and invasion are in fossil fuels

The Guardian - US

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Thousands evacuate from Ukraine through humanitarian corridor, with more set to open up

Ukraine will on Wednesday try to ensure civilians can evacuate the country through six "humanitarian corridors", including from the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says.

ABC News

Brit landlady bars Putin from drinking at her pub - 'My punters would wreck him'

Landlady Sam Rice, who runs the Loaf and Cheese in Burton upon Trent, warned Vladimir Putin he would get "wrecked" if he popped into her pub for a pint after his brutal invasion of Ukraine

Daily Mirror

‘Apocalyptic’: Ukraine crisis worsens as Russia ramps up attacks

Two million people have fled the country, 650,000 are without electricity, and 130,000 have no fuel.

Al Jazeera

UN Commissioner To Travel to Xinjiang on Long-delayed China Visit

Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has come under criticism for failing to release a report on Xinjiang commissioned more than three-and-a-half years ago. Human rights activists have been waiting for its publication for months, and called on her to release it without delay.

The News Lens

Ukraine calls Russia's humanitarian corridors a 'genocidal' hoax

KYIV: The United States has banned imports of Russian oil, firing one of its biggest economic weapons against Moscow over the war in Ukraine where new humanitarian corridors were set to open Wednesday for civilians trying to escape besieged cities.

Bangkok Post

West to Russia: Do Not Sabotage Iran Deal with New Conditions

Western powers on Tuesday warned Russia against wrecking an almost completed deal on bringing the United States and Iran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear accord, as Iran's top negotiator was set to return from consultations in Tehran. Eleven months of talks to restore the deal which lifted sanctions…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Civilian casualties climb to 1,424 in Ukraine but likely many more, UN says: Key points

NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday finally evacuated about 700 Indian students from Sumy in northeastern Ukraine.

The Times of India

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

What is a humanitarian no-fly zone and could it save lives in Ukraine?

Joe Biden has ruled out enforcing such a move but is under mounting pressure, writes Andrew Buncombe

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 14 of the Russian invasion

Zelenskiy says international community will be responsible for ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ if it does not agree a no-fly zone

Daily Mirror

Girl, 10, 'shot dead by drunk Russian soldiers as family forced to bury her in garden'

Ukrainians are continuing to flee their homes as the conflict escalates inside the country, with the Russian military slowly advancing towards the capital Kyiv

ABC News

Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges UK to declare Russia a terrorist state, says Ukraine 'will fight until the end'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy delivers a speech to UK politicians via video link, comparing his country's fight against Russia to Britain's battle against the Nazis.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

France 24

As it happened: Ukrainian officials accuse Russia of bombing children’s hospital in Mariupol

Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of bombing a children's hospital in the besieged port city of Mariupol, breaking a ceasefire agreement to enable some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the city to escape.

Daily Mirror

Fears for 'exhausted' staff trapped at Chernobyl plant in 'worsening' conditions

The UN's nuclear watchdog says monitoring systems are no longer transmitting data from the plant, which was the scene of the 1986 disaster, after it was taken over by Russian troops

The Independent UK

Ukraine invasion: How many anti-war protesters have been arrested in Russia?

Under new legislation, anti-war protesters in Russia can be jailed for up to 15 years

Al Jazeera

Latest Ukraine updates: Strike hits Mariupol hospital complex

Ukraine news for March 9: Russian attack hits a children’s hospital in besieged port city, Ukrainian officials say.

Reuters

U.N. cultural agency moves to protect Ukraine's heritage sites

The United Nations' cultural agency (UNESCO) said on Tuesday it had bolstered protective measures to preserve Ukraine's endangered cultural heritage in light of Russia's invasion of its neighbour.

ABC News

Ukraine-Russia war updates: Humanitarian corridors open in six cities, Ukraine authorities say — as it happened

In the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol there have been claims of shelling as elsewhere residents are looking to exit through humanitarian corridors.

The Independent UK

A Hamptons pastry chef, a new bride and a father who won the green card lottery: The Ukrainians returning home from US to fight for their country

While more than two million refugees have evacuated Ukraine to escape Russia’s violent assault on troops and civilians alike, a growing number of Ukrainians living in the US are making the opposite journey to return to their homes and fight. Rachel Sharp reports

1 … 1427 1428 1429 1430

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

International Atomic Energy Agency

United Nations Security Council

179 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.