As hostilities worsen in Yemen, more people have been fleeing their homes, further intensifying the humanitarian crisis ...

US President Donald Trump used his address to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to defend recent military action against Iran, urging countries to maintain economic pressure on Tehran – and declaring ...

Along the coast of Tanzania, in East Africa, the Indian Ocean is pushing saltwater ever farther inland, shrinking coconut ...

The UN’s survival for 80 years is not, by itself, proof of success, and now, the institution must confront painful truths if ...

Humanity faces four defining “tests of power” – around war or peace, inequality, climate change and AI – that will determine ...

A new academic year is underway in many countries across the world, yet millions of children still attend schools where the water is unsafe to drink, toilets are unusable and there is nowhere to ...

The UN has condemned continued cross‑border attacks by Houthi forces against Saudi Arabia, including an attempted strike on the capital Riyadh, as fighting inside Yemen drives one of the country’s ...

In a world facing rising conflicts, violence and divisions that are causing great suffering for millions of people, the UN ...

AI agents are software that can perform tasks independently and on behalf of a user, compared to chatbots, which are prompted ...

Temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C warming goal set in Paris is now widely considered inevitable. The challenge now is to keep ...

An Ebola vaccine trial is underway in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), involving frontline health workers and others involved in the response.

Six years after COVID-19 killed millions, battered health systems, disrupted lives and brought the global economy to a ...