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UN staff work on logistics preparations in Khan Younis, Gaza, in April 2024. (file)

Middle East crisis: Live updates from Gaza, Lebanon and the Security Council as famine looms

Top UN officials warned the Security Council on Tuesday that famine is imminent in Gaza unless immediate action is taken, with UN agencies on the ground reporting dire conditions as the conflict rages on there and in Lebanon. UN News app users can follow the live feed here.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivers remarks at the opening of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

‘Pay up or humanity will pay the price’, Guterres warns at COP29 climate summit

A mother holds the bullet that was removed from her eight-year-old daughter after she was hit at her home on the outskirts of capital Khartoum.

Sudan: Allies of warring generals ‘enabling the slaughter,’ Security Council hears

At a collective site in Kharkiv, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees Kelly T. Clements (right) meets Svitlana, a pensioner whose home was destroyed by a glide bomb.

1,000 days of full-scale war on Ukraine: UNHCR urges solidarity with victims

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A young Vietnamese man cleans up debris at his home after Typhoon Yagi swept through Quang Ninh province.

COP29: Guterres urges countries to ‘get serious’ on loss and damage funding

12 November 2024

UN Climate Change Executive Secretary Simon Stiell delivers remarks in Baku, Azerbaijan, at the opening of COP29. Behind him is an image of the devastation wrought by Hurricane Beryl, which struck his home island of Carriacou, Grenada, this past July.

COP29: Push for agreement on a new climate finance deal ‘right from the start’

11 November 2024

‘Pay up or humanity will pay the price’, Guterres warns at COP29 climate summit

12 November 2024

A child navigates flood waters in Jonglei State in South Sudan.

COP29: Deadly weather events show cost of climate inaction

8 November 2024

2024 has seen record-breaking heatwaves.

Record heat persists as WMO calls for urgent services and investment boost

7 November 2024

A girl from the Iñupiat community stands on an ice floe on a shore of the Arctic Ocean in Barrow, Alaska in the United States. The anomalous melting of the Arctic ice is one of the many effects of global warming that has a serious impact on the life of h…

Adapt or perish: UN calls for urgent action at COP29 climate summit

7 November 2024

Mangrove shoots being planted on Tarawa, an atoll in the Pacific island nation of Kiribati to protect against coastal erosion.

Carbon markets could boost climate action in least developed countries

4 November 2024

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Nigeria: 33 million could face hunger next year

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Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for South Sudan and head of UNMISS, briefs Security Council members on the situation in the Sudan and South Sudan.

South Sudan mission chief ‘confident’ country will have a stable and democratic future

Jovana Jezdimirovic Ranito, Chairperson-Rapporteur of the Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries.

Better due diligence in banking crucial to curb financing for mercenaries

Women’s Roundtable at UN-Habitat’s WUF12 in Cairo, Egypt.

A city safe for women is safe for all: Women’s voices lead at World Urban Forum in Cairo

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UNRWA staff continue to work in Gaza where possible.

How has the war in Gaza affected UNRWA’s ability to support Palestinians?

Humanitarian Aid As well as bringing emergency aid to those living in Occupied Palestinian Territory, UNRWA, the agency for Palestine refugees, also provides a range of crucial services. In Gaza, the year-long war has severely threatened their ability to deliver.

People in the Gaza Strip collect relief supplies delivered by boat in 1957. (file)

Stories from the UN Archive: What UNRWA built

The Guajiro bean has fed Wayúu Indigenous Peoples of South America for centuries.

Drought or flooding? No match for this climate-friendly bean

A woman greets members of the Technical Committee of the peace, security and cooperation framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the region during a field visit to the Mugunga camp for internally displacement people near Goma.

Explainer: How to advance women’s roles in peace and security

The latest UN biodiversity summit opens in Colombia; here’s what’s at stake

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The remains of a wristwatch found in the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan, records the moment of the atomic bomb explosion at 8:15am local time on 6 August 1945. (file)

Atomic bombs: The second the world changed

By Ariana Lindquist, Ann Sophie Persson and Eileen Travers

The Nobel Peace Prize was just awarded to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the atomic bomb attacks launched by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Since then, the UN and groups like Nihon Hidankyo have helped to forge a path towards a nuclear-weapon-free world.

Faces of Gaza, one year on

The town of Khan Younis, like many areas of the Gaza Strip, has been decimated by the war.

Thousands descend on UN for busiest week of the year

Secretary-General António Guterres (on screen) addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session.

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Large parts of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince have been affected by brutal armed gang violence.

Children face unprecedented crisis amid rising violence in Haiti

Peace and Security This year has seen a staggering 1,000 per cent or ten-fold surge in sexual violence against children in Haiti, during an unprecedented crisis which has seen armed gangs continue to terrorize communities amid a growing humanitarian disaster.

Families gather to have a meal prepared and provided by Zamzam camp emergency response room teams in North Darfur (file).

World News in Brief: Sudan aid latest, toxic air in Pakistan, Ukraine and Syria updates

Humanitarian Aid A convoy of trucks from the World Food Programme (WFP) on Monday crossed into war-torn Sudan from Chad through the crucial Adre crossing, headed for Zamzam IDP Camp in North Darfur where famine conditions have already been confirmed.

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