Indian rescuers brought in a new digging machine Saturday to open a vertical shaft to free 41 workers trapped inside a collapsed road tunnel for two weeks, after efforts through another route hit snags just metres from reaching the men.In the latest...

The United Nations on Saturday denounced the "sharp rise in hatred globally" since the war between Hamas and Israel began on October 7."The impact of this crisis... has sent shockwaves across every region, dehumanising both Palestinians and Jews. We...

Nearly 29,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon amid deadly exchanges between Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli army, a United Nations agency said Friday.A total of 28,965 people have been displaced, mainly in the country's south, th...

The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees said Saturday at least 17 of its staff had been killed in the Gaza war, warning that the death toll would likely rise."To date, 17 of our colleagues have been confirmed killed in this vicious war. Ve...

The United Nations urged Israel to rescind its call for 1.1 million residents of northern Gaza to relocate to the south of the territory within 24 hours, amid massive bombardments in retaliation for Hamas's attacks."The United Nations considers it im...

With the production of plastic on the rise worldwide and creating ever more pollution, the UN environment chief warned that humanity cannot just recycle its way out of the mess, and she called for a total rethink about the way we use plastics."There...

Niger's coup leaders accused the head of the United Nations on Friday of obstructing their participation in the body's General Assembly, saying it was "likely to undermine any effort to end the crisis in our country".Rebel elite soldiers overthrew pr...

By AFPA top UN official on Monday urged authorities in the Dominican Republic to re-open its border with Haiti and use diplomacy to resolve a dispute over a shared river.The Dominican Republic announced the border closure on Thursday in response to H...

World leaders meeting in New York next week will try to revive key goals meant to improve the lot of humanity by 2030, plans that are in doubt today as hunger, poverty and other crises persist.- Leave no one behind -In 2015, UN member-states adopted...

Although the demise of the Islamic State terrorist group was announced by the international coalition combating ISIS in March 2019, the terrorists’ threat of resurgence remains high, especially in Syria, politically and security-fragile countries, an...

The latest mission in India's ambitious space programme blasted off Saturday on a voyage towards the centre of the solar system, a week after the country's successful unmanned Moon landing.Aditya-L1 launched shortly before midday, with a live broadca...