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Attendees at the Indonesia Pavilion during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

COP28: As ‘humanity’s fate hangs in the balance’, UN chief calls for urgent action to prevent planetary crash

Earth’s vital signs are failing and to prevent planetary crash and burn, “we need…cooperation and political will”, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres said on Friday, challenging world leaders gathered in Dubai for COP28 to show real global climate leadership.

Phiona works as a Peer Mother at a health centre in Uganda, she helps train and support mothers to deliver HIV-free babies.

World AIDS Day celebrates communities working to end the disease

Residents of Gaza move their possessions during the temporary humanitarian pause.

World News in Brief: New relief window in Gaza, sexual violence in Sudan, new action against chemical weapons

COP28 talks open in Dubai with breakthrough deal on loss and damage fund

UN Climate Conference COP28

A man crosses parched farmland in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia

Science points to ‘climate collapse’ as UN chief calls COP28 to action

30 November 2023

COP28 talks open in Dubai with breakthrough deal on loss and damage fund

30 November 2023

UN Secretary-General António Guterres looks across the ice sheet at Frei Antarctica base.

In visit to Antarctica, Guterres appeals for action to end ‘climate anarchy’

24 November 2023

Climate change is contributing to drought conditions across the world.

Explainer: What’s COP28 and why is it important?

28 November 2023

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed addresses the preparatory meeting ahead of the UN climate conference (COP28) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Upcoming COP28 summit must ‘respond decisively’ to gaps in global climate action

30 October 2023

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Needs rise as flooding spreads in Somalia

Russia: UN rights chief denounces outlawing of ‘the international LGBT movement’

Civil society an ‘unwavering force’ for peace: UN official

Climate change risks upending global fight against malaria

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A girl rests in a camp for displaced persons in Gaza.

First Person: Trauma, stress and sadness take root in Gaza

Ms. Achrekar, spoke with UN News as UNAIDS launched its latest report on Tuesday, Let Communities Lead.

Every single minute ‘a life is lost to AIDS,’ says UNAIDS deputy chief

Refugee activist and journalist Abdullahi Mire (left), the Global Laureate of the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award, distributes books to refugee students at a secondary school in Dadaab, Kenya.

‘Milestone’ award will change refugee children’s lives: UNHCR prize winner

Maha Hijazi from UNRWA who recently fled from Gaza to Egypt.

UNRWA staff member recounts agency’s 'impossible mission' in Gaza

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Village health worker Timothy Mbene Masereka.

Fighting gender-based violence door-to-door with support of Ugandan men

Women A Ugandan man, who is employed as a village health worker, has told the UN how men and boys must play a critical role in eliminating gender-based violence to change their communities for the better.

Missile strikes have caused widespread destruction in Gaza.

First Person: ‘Severe shock’ as Gaza neighbourhoods are erased

An invaluable mobile app helping Kenyan pastoralists beat the drought.

Explainer: How AI helps combat climate change

Angela Muhindo in Kasese, western Uganda.

Ugandan woman advocates for her rights after ‘life of pain’

(from left) Paul Goodloe, meteorologist, The Weather Channel; Jake Dubbins, co-founder, Conscious Advertising Network, member of Climate Action Against Disinformation; Vanessa Nakate, climate activist, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador; Charlotte Scaddan, Senio…

Tackling climate mis/disinformation: ‘An urgent frontier for action’

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A farmer works in a rice field in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. (1982)

Veteran UN photographer who was ‘witness to troubled world’ leaves behind a priceless legacy

The former head of UN Photo, John Isaac, who photographed the work of the United Nations during three tempestuous, but also hopeful, decades at the end of the 20th Century has died aged 80.

Rafah crossing, aid ‘lifeline’ into Gaza

UN Secretary-General António Guterres travelled to the Rafah crossing on Friday.

Ukraine: Snapshots of a war

The Transfiguration Cathedral in Odesa, which is a World Heritage Historic Centre has been damaged by shelling.

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The UN Security Council meets on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.

World must not look away from humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, UN chief tells Security Council

Peace and Security The UN Security Council met intensively through Wednesday morning in New York on the Middle East crisis. It was the first open meeting since the 15-member body passed a resolution in mid-November and the first featuring foreign ministers from across the region and beyond.

South Sudanese returnees arrive at the Joda border point in Upper Nile State.

World News in Brief: South Sudan aid plan, rising cost of healthy eating, Europe’s diabetes burden

Humanitarian Aid Humanitarians have launched a $1.8 billion plan to support six million people in South Sudan next year, the United Nations has reported.

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