The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

WHO says hijacking by armed men has aggravated already severe scarcity of food, medicine and other aid

Sugar addiction is on the rise. Globally, sugar intake has quadrupled over the last 60 years, and it now makes up around 8% of all our calories.

Delegates from poorer nations say classifications that date back to 1992 are obsolete and two countries ‘should be contributing’

Recent gang attack in Haiti's Pétionville highlights escalating violence and security challenges in the region.

The U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran has further increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels in defiance of international demands

A powerful gang coalition has launched a fresh attack on Haiti’s capital, with gunmen targeting an upscale community in Port-au-Prince where they clashed with residents who fought side-by-side with police

The vast volumes of food we send to landfill account for an estimated 20% of current methane emissions.

The UK has joined a cross-country group as UN climate negotiations continue in Azerbaijan.

Three children killed daily in Lebanon over last two months, UNICEF reports, as it urges action to stop the violence.

US president-elect Donald Trump has indicated that he will again withdraw his country from the Paris agreement and perhaps the UN climate process altogether. The uncertainty this has created was palpable in the negotiation rooms and hallways of the Cop29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, where I wrote this.

If I had to sum up COP29 in a single word, it would be entropy. Borrowed from thermodynamics, this concept describes the delicate balance between order and disorder, a principle that governs both natural and human systems. An ecosystem, much like the climate negotiations, is not static; it is constantly…