United Nations

A view of the closing session at the United Nations COP16 nature summit in Cali, Colombia, November 1, 2024. Photo: Camilo Rodriguez/Reuters
World+Biz

UN summit approves fund to share benefits of nature's sequenced genetic data

File Photo: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at a Czech Defense Capabilities event at Prague-Kbely Airport, in Prague, Czech Republic, May 30, 2024. Petr David Josek/Pool via REUTERS
Middle East

Israel, Lebanon make progress on how to implement UN resolution, says Blinken

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk. File Photo: Salvatore Di Nolfi/Pool via REUTERS
Bangladesh

Fact-finding mission probing allegations of attacks against minorities: Türk

United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk arrives in Dhaka. Photo: BSS
Bangladesh

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk arrives in Dhaka

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Middle East

Iraq lodges UN complaint over Israel using its airspace to attack Iran

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows brick factories as smoke rises from the stacks in the town of Nahrawan in Baghdad, Iraq June 5, 2022. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani/File Photo
Climate Change

Countries' carbon-cut plans 'miles short' of 2030 goal: UN

The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, March 1, 2022. File Photo: REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Bangladesh

UN rights chief to visit Bangladesh 29-30 Oct

File Photo: The United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, October 16, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Middle East

Iran calls on UN Security Council to condemn Israeli strikes

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk. File Photo: Reuters
Bangladesh

UN HR chief Volker Turk to visit Bangladesh this month

File Photo: The United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, October 16, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Middle East

US says Israel must show no Gaza 'policy of starvation'

Families fleeing the Israeli airstrikes in the south, sit in front of the Mohammad al-Amin Mosque in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. AP Photo
World+Biz

UN says over 400,000 children in Lebanon have been displaced in 3 weeks by war

Thick smoke rises over Beirut's southern suburbs from a generator that caught fire, according to residents, as seen from Baabda, Beirut, Lebanon, October 12, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki
Middle East

UN says Israeli tanks burst through gates of peacekeeper base

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking Memorial Day for fallen soldiers of Israel's wars and victims of attacks, at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl military cemetery, May 13, 2024. Photo: GIL COHEN-MAGEN/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Middle East

Netanyahu tells UN chief to move peacekeepers in Lebanon out of 'harm's way immediately'