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.

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

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All-male elections at the African Union highlighted the exclusion of talented women from power. The continent cannot thrive like that, says author Minna Salami