The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand

Resistance to the New Zealand government’s policies aimed at rolling back Māori rights and protections under te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi has now reached the United Nations.

The former UK prime minister and UN education envoy calls for cash for high-tech tracking systems to find the missing pupils.

At the UN climate conference Cop30 in Belém, Brazil, I asked some young climate activists and negotiators about their hopes, expectations and demands. Despite their positivity and the push for action from climate movements, Indigenous people and civil society, a lack of consensus on key issues was palpable.

Andrew Windsor is set to flee Britain for a fortified $13M Abu Dhabi palace as King Charles strips his titles and US pressure for his Epstein testimony mounts.

The official UN/IAWN document confirms the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is the target of a formal planetary-defence exercise.

The VP wouldn’t be where he is today without the patronage of the Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. But with voters becoming more and more concerned about the firm’s surveillance tech, could that relationship affect his chances, asks Arwa Mahdawi

Report says Israel’s operations ‘significantly undermined every pillar of survival’ and reduced the economy by 87%

Millions of people, particularly in African countries, have lost access to drug treatments, prevention and testing putting the idea of ending the Aids pandemic by 2030 out of reach

When Cop30 convened in Belém, deep inside the Amazon, the world’s attention turned once again to negotiations, emissions pledges and political manoeuvring. The global stage was set against one of Earth’s most biodiverse landscapes and some of its most vulnerable communities, yet the conversation still leaned heavily toward geopolitics rather…

A year since deal agreed, UN calls for investigation into possible violations of international law by all parties