By AFP/Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOISThe United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council push to call for a ceasefire in Gaza that Washington said would have emboldened Hamas.The resolution demanded "an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasef...

By UN NewsIn a powerful appeal to the world’s largest economies during the G20 Summit, UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called for urgent climate action and reform of international institutions, warning that current systems are failin...

By AFPA handful of left-leaning senators on Tuesday called on the Biden administration to halt arms sales to Israel, accusing the United States of playing a key role in the "atrocities" of the war in Gaza.The four senators gave the media conference a...

By UN News/Vibhu MishraThe Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday called on the UN Security Council to help execute arrest warrants against suspects allegedly linked to a brutal Libyan militia blamed for committing atrocity c...

By UN NewsAndrea Tenenti, spokesperson for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), told reporters in Geneva that ground clashes inside Lebanon – some of them very close to UNIFIL positions – have become “more violent”.Peacekeepers have witnessed th...

By UN NewsThe head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, confirmed on Monday that a large convoy of humanitarian aid was looted inside Gaza at the weekend, amid a near-total breakdown in law and order and harassment of the agency’s staff by...

By UN NewsOver 20,000 people have fled their homes across Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince in just four days amid escalating gang violence, with more than 17,000 seeking shelter in 15 displacement sites as critical supply chains collapse.Haiti has face...

By AFP/Sabiha AlamThirteen Bangladeshi former top government officials arrested after the revolution in August appeared in court Monday accused of "enabling massacres", with prosecutors repeating extradition demands for exiled ex-leader Sheikh Hasina...

By AFP/Emma CharltonThe EU's outgoing top diplomat Josep Borrell said Monday he had "no more words" to describe the crisis in the Middle East as he delivered a bleak assessment at his swansong foreign ministers' meeting.At a sombre press briefing aft...

By AFP/Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOISRussia on Monday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate end to hostilities in Sudan, where a war between two rival generals has been raging since April 2023.A draft of the resolution prepared b...

By AFP/Clément VARANGESHundreds of clandestine miners at a disused South African shaft are struggling to survive in grim conditions because of a police operation to force them out, one of the men who escaped told AFP Sunday.For nearly two weeks polic...

By UN NewsThe G20 group of developed economies must be at the forefront of global efforts to bring about peace, climate action, fairer international financial institutions and equitable access to emerging technologies, the UN Secretary-General said o...