The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

By promising troops to Russia, Kim Jong-un has internationalised the conflict, adding to instability around the world

WHO says six people, including four children, injured in strike on polio vaccination centre in northern Gaza.

The climate change minister is ‘disturbed’ by rising temperatures and increasingly unnatural natural disasters – but that’s what gets him out of bed every day

The Western European hedgehog – the prickly, nocturnal critter people love to encounter in the garden – is in decline, mowed down by cars as its shrinking habitat forces it to move ever closer to humans.

Israel claims it carried out operation against what it called a ‘Hezbollah operative’ in an ‘unprecedented’ move.

Increasingly violent siege of north raises suspicions about Netanyahu’s war aims

A Lebanese sea captain has been taken away by a group of armed men who landed on a coast north of Beirut and authorities are investigating whether Israel was involved

The devastating flooding should spur this month’s Cop29 climate conference to press for immediate action, not look away, writes Guardian global environment editor Jonathan Watts

Sources say key people at Clifford Chance were not consulted, as it emerges another company refused job due to reputational concerns

Israel on Saturday again carried out deadly air strikes on north Gaza, where the UN calls conditions "apocalyptic", as Lebanon's Hezbollah intensified rocket fire near Israel's commercial hub of Tel Aviv, on Israel's second front.

Sudan’s brutal civil war shows no signs of slowing, with reports of escalating atrocities and rampant sexual violence threatening to destroy entire communities. Harrowing accounts from a UN report detail widespread abuses, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) implicated in a surge of attacks targeting women and children.