Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday warned the world is "becoming unhinged" and underscored the United Nations' raison d'être, to resolve global crises during times of "maximum danger and minimum agreement."
Guterres highlighted UN's (...)
Hurricane Lee is expected to continue strengthening Friday after quickly morphing into a powerful Category 5 storm that is now packing destructive maximum sustained winds of 165 mph as it spins hundreds of miles east of the Caribbean, the National (...)
The Biden administration has taken mixed positions on its policies involving Haiti – with one federal agency warning that the Caribbean country is too dangerous for US citizens, while another agency deports Haitians back to the violence-torn (...)
Haiti is in the grip of "extreme brutality", with gang-related violence continuing to force thousands from their homes amidst widespread suffering, said the UN's top humanitarian official there.
The desperate situation prompted a tweet on Friday (...)
As sweltering conditions continue to grip large parts of Europe, temperatures have "reached new heights" in Switzerland, the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Tuesday.
Speaking in Geneva, WMO spokesperson Clare Nullis said that a (...)
As a defender for China's women's national football team, Xue Jiao recalls how her squad did the impossible in 2015 when they ended the US team's 11-year unbeaten streak at home in Los Angeles.
Xue says the display of willpower showed the world why (...)
With an estimated 3.5 billion people living in "climate hot spots", related peace and security risks are only set to heighten, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix told the Security Council on Tuesday, warning that (...)
Thousands of homes in Haiti have been flooded following heavy rains over the weekend, leaving at least 42 people dead and 85 injured, according to a statement released by the country's Civil Protection Agency on Monday. The intense rainfall caused (...)
Highly classified Pentagon documents leaked online in recent weeks have provided a rare window into how the US spies on allies and foes alike, deeply rattling US officials, who fear the revelations could jeopardize sensitive sources and compromise (...)
In an Easter message highlighting hope, Pope Francis on Sunday invoked prayers for both the Ukrainian and Russian people, and praised nations which welcome refugees.
He celebrated Easter Mass in a flower-adorned St. Peter's Square, affirming the (...)
RIYADH —Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov announced on Sunday that Moscow is preparing intergovernmental agreements on visa-free travel with 11 countries, including Saudi Arabia.
"We are preparing draft intergovernmental agreements on (...)
A global surge of cholera cases has put one billion people in 43 countries at risk, the World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned this week.
Three countries, this week alone, have reported outbreaks, WHO cholera team leader Philippe Barboza told (...)
Former US President Jimmy Carter will end medical treatment and enter hospice care at his Georgia home, his foundation announced on Saturday.
The Carter Center said Carter had decided to "spend his remaining time at home with his family," but did (...)
Pope Francis has said the world is suffering from a "famine of peace", in his annual Christmas Day message from the Vatican.
He called for an end to the "senseless war" in Ukraine, condemning what he said was the use of "food as a weapon" of (...)
For many, Christmas celebrated on Dec. 25 across the globe is a time of gift exchanges, partaking in traditional sweets and cakes and dinner outings. From Christmas Eve mass, to festive caroling and the Pope's message in Rome to celebrations of (...)
Bangladesh Embassy in Riyadh observed Armed Forces Day 2022 paying homage to the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and the martyrs of the liberation war in 1971. To celebrate the occasion a reception program was arranged at (...)
An unrelenting series of crises has trapped vulnerable Haitians in a cycle of growing desperation, without access to food, fuel, markets, jobs and public services, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Program (...)
Haiti has asked for foreign military support to curb its gang violence crisis, which has paralyzed the country.
The Haitian government authorized Prime Minister Ariel Henry to request armed help due to "the risk of a major humanitarian crisis".
The (...)
A chronic gang, economic and political crisis has led to a humanitarian catastrophe in Haiti, the country's UN envoy has said.
Weeks of violence and attacks on food aid warehouses have rocked the nation's food security, Helen La Lime told an (...)
Escalating gang violence has set off a crisis that is threatening "the very foundations of the rule of law" in Haiti, according to Foreign Minister Jean Victor Geneus, who told UN delegates in New York on Saturday that the authorities' efforts to (...)
With Haiti's highways increasingly in the grip of gangs, aid delivery by ship is becoming increasingly critical. Captain Madeleine Habib, a shipping officer working for the World Food Program in Haiti, spoke about her experiences ahead of World (...)
One year on from a devastating earthquake which struck Haiti, communities are rebuilding their lives, and aiming to be better prepared when future disasters strike.
A line of women carry rocks in the hands and on their heads as they descend to a (...)
On Aug. 14 2021 a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, destroying, or rendering uninhabitable tens of thousands of houses across three departments in the south of Haiti, including Plaisimond Milaure's home.
For the last year, she's been living in (...)
United Nations humanitarian agencies have started delivering aid directly to people in Haiti following a recent spike in violence between rival gangs which has fueled a worsening crisis across the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Vulnerable inhabitants of (...)
Bulgaria's UN Ambassador banged the gavel as President of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for the first time on Monday with a vow to build on the "solid foundation" left by the outgoing head and his bureau to transform the world into "a (...)
