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The first meagre midweek delivery of urgently needed medical goods to enter Gaza in months will provide scant relief to the enclave’s people...

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are increasingly being subjected to forced displacement and land seizures,...

Most families in the Gaza Strip are surviving on one meal a day and one-third go entire days without eating as a result of Israel’s continue...

When Bashar Al-Assad ruled Syria, his regime was widely accused of profiting from the production and trafficking of Captagon, an illicit syn...

The rapid depletion of the remaining fuel stocks in the Gaza Strip is threatening efforts to keep critical lifelines up and running, the UN...

It’s been 10 years since the Addis Ababa Action Agenda was established to support the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Deve...

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Wednesday that his “number one priority” is for its inspectors to return t...

Helping those with less isn’t charity – it’s a shared investment in a better future. Yet global development financing is under strain. An up...

A fragile ceasefire brokered by the United States between Iran and Israel appears to be holding, marking a tentative halt to a dangerous reg...

The Security Council meets at 3pm for a scheduled debate over the future of the so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action which was put i...

Amid signs on Tuesday that a fragile ceasefire appeared to be holding between Iran and Israel, the head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog ur...

At least 410 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military while trying to fetch from controversial new aid hubs in Gaza – a likely...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres is “deeply alarmed” by the further escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, his Spokesperson sai...

Afghanistan is already grappling with immense humanitarian and economic challenges and growing instability in the wider region following air...

The United Nations has condemned a suicide bombing on Sunday at a Damascus church that killed at least 25 worshippers, including women and c...

The food security situation in Government-controlled areas of southern Yemen is dire, with nearly half the population facing acute food inse...

After surprise US bombing raids on Iranian uranium enrichment facilities over the weekend, the head of the UN-backed nuclear watchdog on Mon...

The top UN humanitarian official in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has issued a stark warning over the deepening crisis in Gaza, where c...

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres told an emergency meeting of the Security Council on Sunday that massive overnight strikes by the...

According to the United Nations, the world needs an extra $4 trillion every year to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges – ending p...

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres described the United States’ bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran as a “dangerous escalation” on...

Senior UN officials reiterated an appeal for urgent restraint on Saturday as conflict spiral between Israel and Iran, amid a wider regional...

Once the exclusive domain of a handful of technologically advanced countries, outer space is now within the reach of emerging nations from t...

The world stands on the edge of catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday, as Israel’s military campai...

Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice but to risk their lives to fetch aid supplies,...