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Close-up of a woman in a white blouse reaching toward a short glass of amber liquor on a wooden bar counter.

Health workers tackle taboos over drinking with new AI tool

A young woman in a hijab focuses on an accounting software program on her laptop during a training session at a UNICEF-supported center in Jaramana, Damascus, Syria, aimed at improving employment opportunities for youth.

800 million young people face a future without jobs

A Palestinian woman in Gaza sits among chickens and ducks while holding freshly collected eggs in an outdoor enclosure.

Sustaining livelihoods amid crisis in Gaza

The Secretary-General's nameplate on a wooden desk in the UN Security Council Chamber, with blue chairs and a large mural in the background.

Gender, geography and powerbroking in play in race for next UN chief

What Stops Countries from Getting Nuclear Weapons?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: AI Must Be Governed "By People and for People"

Cate Blanchett reads 'The Promise'

Strengthening Nutrition in Madagascar

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Green rice paddies bordered by brown irrigation canals under a partly cloudy sky in Ca Mau, Mekong Delta.

In the Mekong Delta, a push to grow food with saltwater

Climate and Environment For generations, farming in Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta has depended on a delicate bargain. The river flooded, retreated and flooded again, carrying freshwater and sediment across a flat landscape whose vast fields helped turn the country into one of the world’s leading rice exporters.

A collection of open medicine bottles containing various pills and capsules, alongside empty blister packs and plastic bags, all placed together on a surface.

When streets become pharmacies: Booming illicit markets in Central Africa

Two African elephants touch trunks and tusks in a savanna setting.

Uganda’s UN-supported wildlife forensics lab turns ivory seizures into convictions

Severe riverbank collapse exposes tangled tree roots and threatens a building shielded by green mesh netting along a sandy shoreline, with open water and a distant city skyline visible in the background.

In Tanzania, the sea is moving inland – and taking livelihoods with it

A man in a grey suit and glasses speaks at a green marble desk in the UN General Assembly hall, while a woman in a red top works on a laptop beside him.

The Takeaway Day 6: General Debate ends with call to turn words into action

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks from a podium in the United Nations General Assembly Hall during the opening of the eighty-first session, with delegates seated and his image on two screens.

110 leaders, 18,000 delegates: Inside the UN’s busiest week of high-stakes diplomacy

The busiest week of the year at the UN got underway at the organization’s New York Headquarters on Monday.

Reaching the most vulnerable: Frontline teams support earthquake-hit Venezuela

Photo by UNOCHA/Veronique Durroux showing search and rescue operations near the earthquake ground zero in La Guaira, Venezuela, on June 29, 2026. A CAT backhoe loader is positioned in the foreground amidst rubble, with several rescue workers visible on top of the collapsed building structure.

UN ramps up ceasefire support to hungry and war-weary Gazans

A smiling young girl, Shereen, carries a large pot of rice and chickpeas in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, while other children and adults stand near tents in the background.

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Residents displaced by violence in Cité Soleil, Haiti, rest in a makeshift shelter in Drouillard.

Haiti sanctions renewed: Starving the gangs of bullets

Peace and Security Haiti is living through one of the world’s most acute security crises. Armed gangs control large parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and are pushing into rural areas, terrorising communities, killing people, committing rape and other sexual assaults, kidnapping for ransom and extorting individuals and businesses.

Elevated view of Bogotá's urban landscape with modern blue and green high-rises, dense low-rise buildings, and Andean mountains under a clear blue sky.

Colombia: UN independent experts call for Ecopetrol to provide reparations to victims of armed conflict

Human Rights UN independent experts welcomed on Wednesday a recent landmark corporate accountability ruling involving the Ecopetrol oil company by Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace, calling for reparations for victims.

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