The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Reduction to 0.3% of gross national income in order to fund defence spending has been decried as a ‘move to appease Trump’

The world's biggest nature conservation conference resumed in Rome today, Tuesday, in a bid to overcome a deadlock between northern and southern countries over funding. Negotiations collapsed last year, with the head of the meeting warning that increasing global "polarisation" was frustrating efforts to protect the planet.

Garry Jean Baptiste, a leader of one of Haiti's main police unions, urged the government to provide more equipment and support

UK and France need to convince US to align with them over Ukraine, while at the UN Trump openly sides with Russia

Complications related to childbirth and infections claim the lives of nearly 76,000 children under the age of five each year in Europe and Central Asia, with some health indicators showing signs of "backsliding," the World Health Organization (WHO) stated on Tuesday.

The US vote against Ukraine and Europe’s UN resolution reflects larger policy changes of the Trump administration.

South Africa's armed forces say a group of soldiers critically injured in fighting in eastern Congo a month ago have been evacuated by the United Nations

UK defence spending will rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027, the prime minister has announced. Sir Keir Starmer made the announcement in an unexpected Commons

Recent events include U.S. stance on Russia, White House AP access dispute, USAID confusion, Macron's trade war warning, HHS email caution, legal battles, ...

Data from UN agency’s Missing Migrants Project should serve as ‘wake-up call’, say officials

A U.N. official says a Trump administration move to suspend funding to the World Health Organization has frozen $46 million for its operations in Gaza