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

Pregnant in Gaza with no clinics: ‘I have no idea where I will give birth’

As one of 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, Noor Hammad faces a traumatic birth and fraught start in life for her first baby

The Guardian - UK

Plastic waste ‘spiralling out of control’ across Africa, analysis shows

Predicted 116m tonnes of waste annually by 2060 is six times higher than in 2019, driven by demand in sub-Saharan Africa

The Guardian - UK

Live updates | More Palestinians fleeing combat zone in northern Gaza, UN says

The pace of Palestinian civilians fleeing the combat zone in northern Gaza has picked up as Israel’s air and ground campaign there intensifies

The Independent UK

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

Israel-Hamas war – live: IDF troops in ‘heart’ of Gaza City as they target tunnel network with explosives

It comes as the United Nations warned ‘no place’ was safe in Gaza

The Independent UK

‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report

Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’

The Guardian - UK

Two residents in the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda fight government in land rights case

When Hurricane Irma slammed into the tiny island of Barbuda as a powerful Category 5 storm in 2017, the government evacuated the entire population

The Independent UK

Who will write the rules for AI? How nations are racing to regulate artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a label that can cover a huge range of activities related to machines undertaking tasks with or without human intervention. Our understanding of AI technologies is largely shaped by where we encounter them, from facial recognition tools and chatbots to photo editing software and self-driving cars.

The Conversation

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

US launches airstrike in response to attacks on bases housing US troops as Syrian state media reports strikes in south by Israel – as it happened

More than 33,550 cases of diarrhoea reported since mid-October, most among children under five, says WHO;

The Guardian - AU

26 years ago, Howard chose fossil fuels over the Pacific. What will Albanese choose?

Hot on the heels of trips to Washington and Beijing, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now in the Cook Islands for the Pacific Island Forum. There, he will aim to strengthen relations with Pacific countries and reaffirm Australia’s place as a security partner of choice.

The Conversation

Leaked State Department memo slams ‘unacceptable’ Biden policies in Israel-Hamas war

‘Mutiny’ is reportedly building inside diplomatic corps

The Independent UK

China releases methane plan as hopes rise for new climate agreement with US

Two countries may soon break ground on a new climate agreement ahead of a presidential meeting next week and the UN’s climate conference, COP28

The Guardian - UK

Bernie Sanders calls for Israel to stop killing ‘innocent men, women and children’ – but rejects ceasefire

Mr Sanders said the killing of ‘innocent men, women and children’ must end

The Independent UK

'How are they going to evacuate them?': The search for solutions to Gaza's hospital crisis

As the need for medical care in Gaza soars, accessing working hospitals and health centres is becoming more and more difficult. Alternative solutions such as evacuating patients overseas and setting up field hospitals are under way, but may offer little hope if there is no end to fighting in the…

France 24

Israel troops battling Hamas ‘in the heart’ of Gaza City

Israeli troops infiltrate Gaza City ‘for the first time in decades’, as minister says neither Israel nor Hamas will govern enclave once war is over

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Foreign Policy

What Ecuador’s New President Needs from Washington—And Fast

The country’s youngest-ever leader has less than 18 months to govern before the next election.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: $100m PPE debacle exposed, boats turned back, Maxwell’s World Cup miracle

Our investigation reveals how taxpayers invested millions and got 46m unusable masks in exchange; allrounder blasts astonishing 201 not out to beat Afghanistan

The Conversation

Over the past six years, governments proposed launching over one million satellites, but where will they all go?

In September 2021, Rwanda announced that it was planning to launch over 300,000 satellites. Three months later, a Canadian company, having previously launched two dozen CubeSats, said it would launch an additional 100,000. Then, a French company did likewise. And SpaceX, which has already launched around 5,000 satellites, now has…

The Hindu

Cease fire: On the danger of Israel turning Gaza into an open prison on fire

There needs to be pressure on Israel to make it understand that it cannot continue to kill Palestinian civilians in the name of its right to defend itself

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

‘We saw death’: families flee past tanks as Israel begins to storm Gaza City

Civilians given four-hour window to leave encircled capital but fears many are still trapped

The Guardian - US

Rupi Kaur rejects White House’s Diwali invitation over its Israel-Gaza response

Poet says she refuses invitation ‘from an institution that supports the collective punishment of a trapped civilian population’

France 24

McKinsey & Company pushes fossil fuel interests as advisor to UN climate talks, whistleblowers say

The world's top management consultancy McKinsey & Company is using its position as a key advisor to the UN's COP28 climate talks to push the interests of its big oil and gas clients, undermining efforts to end the use of the fossil fuels driving global warming, according to multiple sources…

Al Jazeera

Is Israel’s Gaza war the deadliest conflict for children in modern times?

Many more children have been killed in Gaza every day compared with Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, other conflict zones.

The Guardian - UK

Gaza: who lives there and why it has been blockaded for so long

Most people in the strip, once part of Palestine, are refugees or their descendants, expelled during the creation of Israel in 1948

The Independent UK

Varadkar warns against expelling Israeli ambassador to Ireland

The Taoiseach said he also has ‘enormous fears’ that the violence in the Middle East could escalate and widen.

Al Jazeera

One month of Israel’s war: What’s happening to Palestinians outside Gaza?

The past month saw escalating Israeli violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem and Israel.

1 … 768 769 770 771

People

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

Organisations