Organisers are hoping this year's Conference of Parties — known less formally as COP30 — will yield commitments of money and ...

The United States is asking the U.N. Security Council to lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa and members of ...

USAID Office of the Inspector General is pursuing allegations that U.S. taxpayer dollars sent to the Gaza Strip were diverted ...

The world has failed to meet its main climate change target and will likely breach this threshold in the next decade, the ...

More children have been trafficked, forced to work in gold mines and to fight as soldiers in Mali this year as conflict ...

Countries have submitted their most recent round of promises and plans to fight climate change, and the UN has tallied them ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- The United Nations secretary-general warned Tuesday that the war in Sudan is “spiraling out of ...

About 11,000 people have crossed from Ethiopia to Sudan fleeing the conflict in their home country and an estimated 50% of ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan said it welcomed a senior Fijian diplomat this week who met with Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim, a highly ...

In 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, the first global pact to fight climate change. Here's a comparison of then and now — in terms of the state of the climate, the way we live ...

The total area of land in Afghanistan on which opium poppy is grown shrank 20% this year, according to a U.N. estimate issued ...

How was the UN created? Initial planning began in 1939, when it became clear that the League of Nations had failed in its job ...