The U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown, who recently returned from the Darfur region, said there's nowhere near enough aid being provided.

Rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres. Israel has not responded but has previously denied allegations of torture.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has stressed that the country's air force will play a role in the country's nuclear war deterrent.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations — but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food — said Monday it would shutter operations.

The last time the U.N. released its "World Urbanization Prospects" report was in 2018, when Tokyo was the world's most populous city.

GENEVA, Nov 28 (Reuters) - U.N. agencies on Friday appealed to Washington to continue allowing asylum seekers access to the country and to be given due process after President Donald Trump vowed to freeze migration from "Third World" countries following an attack near the White House.

The World Food Programme says a spike in attacks by militants across northern Nigeria is expected to result in Africa's worst levels of severe hunger next year.

The United Nations leadership has launched a major reform plan to make the cash-strapped world body more efficient and cost-effective. Unfortunately, it has offered little on how this will impact the UN’s already understaffed and underfunded human rights work.