Up to 500,000 illegal weapons ranging from handguns to battlefield-grade semi-automatic rifles are thought to be in the hands ...

Talks at the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on adopting new global rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from ...

Nearly 70,000 women in Afghanistan tune in to Radio Femme – an all-female-run online and traditionally broadcast radio ...

Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and ...

Amid the destruction of the Second World War, nations responded to the danger of hunger and malnutrition by creating the Food ...

As the disarmament team approached, combatants from the Retour, Réclamation et Réhabilitation (3R) armed group stood in two ...

As a fragile ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip, UN aid teams are intensifying efforts to deliver urgently needed assistance.

Nearly 14 million people could face severe hunger by the end of the year, the World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Wednesday, ...

The United Nations faces a “race to bankruptcy” unless Member States pay their dues in full and on time, Secretary-General ...

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday that renews sanctions in Haiti for another year as armed ...

Around $70 billion will be needed to reconstruct Gaza and make it safe after two years of war, UN development experts said on ...

More than eight per cent of the world population or around 673 million people are not getting enough to eat and going hungry, ...