The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Israel on Sunday ordered the military to stop a humanitarian ship carrying international activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg and Franco-Palestinian MEP Rima Hassan. The Madleen flotilla is trying to break the Israeli blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

IN FOCUS: Israel’s Operation Gideon’s Chariots has seen an escalation in attacks in Gaza. Alicja Hagopian reports

A fleet of 30 research and exploration vessels is to sail off the French coastal city of Nice, marking World Oceans Day and the opening of the third United Nations Ocean Conference

As wildfire season begins, the destructive impacts of climate change are being felt across Canada. Several communities in northern Saskatchewan have been issued evacuation orders due to wildfires. In Manitoba, Pimicikamak Cree Nation worked to evacuate hundreds of people as wildfires closed in, while smoke from those fires caused air-quality…

Israeli officials have come under pressure in recent days for incidents near aid sites

More than 10,000 people will gather in France for largest ocean conference ever.

Cameroon’s overlapping conflicts have pushed almost one million people from their homes. A new report says the crisis is both under-funded and under-reported. RFI spoke to some of those forced to flee, now struggling to survive far from home.

At least 16 people killed in strike on residential building and six on way to get food aid

Israeli PM says he will keep war on Gaza going until ‘Hamas is defeated’, but analysts say he may not want that.

Rupa Marya, a doctor and professor at the university’s San Francisco campus, says her free speech rights were violated

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Saturday called on the United Nations to assemble a group of countries tasked with seeking a resolution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.