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Half-way through talks to breathe life into the Paris climate deal negotiators haggled over how to share the cost of curbing global warming and struggled to bridge deep political divides. The two weeks of talks, which...

A top Huthi rebel official threatened Thursday to bar UN planes from using the Yemeni capital’s airport unless peace talks in Sweden lead to its full reopening. “If the Yemeni capital’s airport is not opened to...

Campaign groups representing citizens from across the world demanded Tuesday that big energy leaves coal in the ground as COP24 host Poland pushed for protections allowing it to continue burning fossil fuel. With nations locked in...

More than 150 women and girls have come forward in the past 12 days to seek help in South Sudan after they were raped or suffered other forms of sexual violence, the heads of three UN...

The world is not moving fast enough to curb global warming and needs immediate action to address the issue, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told an online climate change conference Thursday. Guterres issued the call to arms...

The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF appointed Millie Bobby Brown, the star of hit Netflix series “Stranger Things”, as its youngest ever goodwill ambassador on Tuesday and the 14-year-old had a message for world leaders: “Listen...

UN envoy Martin Griffiths arrived in the rebel-held Yemeni capital on Wednesday for crunch talks on averting all-out fighting for the lifeline port of Hodeida and widespread famine. Griffiths did not comment to waiting reporters on...

UNICEF Bangladesh has held a series of activities involving thousands of children as part of the World Children’s Day. It has honoured 50 media professionals during the Meena Media Awards 2018. The awards were set up...

A UN panel of experts has found violations of the arms embargo imposed on South Sudan, reporting to the Security Council that there are “alarming levels” of sexual violence, hunger and human rights abuses in the...

An estimated 2,300 children who arrived in Mexico between 19 and 22 October as part of the migrant caravan are still in need of humanitarian support – including protection, healthcare, nutrition, safe water and sanitation –...