World food prices, including for wheat, fell in June for a third month running despite remaining near an all-time high, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday. Export flow disruptions resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and international sanctions on Moscow have sparked fears...

Germany, home to a large Yazidi diaspora, is one of the few countries to have taken legal action against IS.

Twenty-two Malian migrants died in a boat disaster off the Libyan coast, the UN said Tuesday, citing survivors who reported victims drowning and dehydrating with three children reportedly among the dead.  After nine days at sea, 61 survivors, mostly from Mali, were rescued by the Libyan coastguard and brought back...

Libya's Tripoli-based Presidential Council on Tuesday announced a plan to extract the country from its latest political crisis and hold elections. "In response to the legitimate demands of the Libyan people and their desire for change, the Presidential Council... agreed on a ge neral framework for a working plan to...

The decision was taken "to make room for political and revolutionary forces and other national factions" to form a civilian government

The trial of 36 migrants accused of "illegally entering" Morocco started Monday but was immediately halted, lawyers said, days after a mass attempt to cross into a Spanish enclave.

Israel is to conduct a ballistics test on the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, the Israeli army said Sunday, a day after the Palestinian Authority handed the bullet to US experts.

The Palestinian Authority handed the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to US forensic experts on Saturday as it seeks to prove conclusively that it was fired by an Israel soldier.

UNESCO inscribes the culture of cooking borshch soup in Ukraine on its list of endangered cultural heritage amid Moscow's opposition.

In the Middle East, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have been leading the decarbonization conversation with pivotal government initiatives that encourage businesses to reduce their carbon footprint. Now, 2022 and beyond will be about delivering on and monetizing those ambitions despite all the challenges, he adds.

Several MENA countries have fared well on all three domains of the Genuine Progress Indicator, which has been hailed as a much better metric of a nation's progress than GDP.

The African Union Commission chief has voiced his shock at the "violent and degrading" treatment of African migrants trying to cross from Morocco into Spain after 23 people died, and called for an investigation in the incident. About 2,000 migrants stormed the heavily-fortified border between the Moroccan region of Nador...

A long-delayed UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicks off in Lisbon Monday, with thousands of policymakers, experts, and advocates on the case.

It would take Ukraine a decade to build infrastructure to replace its Black Sea ports, whose blockade by Russia is preventing grain exports around the world, Ukraine's deputy agriculture minister said Friday.

Amnesty International has called for the release of prominent Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who on Saturday marks 1,000 days of "unjust detention".

Around 2,000 migrants approached Melilla at dawn Friday and more than 500 managed to enter a border control area after cutting a fence with shears.

"We find that the shots that killed Abu Akleh came from Israeli security forces," UN Human Rights Office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. She said the Human Rights Office had concluded its own independent monitoring into the incident.

Covid vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in the first year after they were introduced, according to the first large modeling study on the topic released Friday. The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, is based on data from 185 countries and territories collected from December 8, 2020, to...

The world body said it will broker new talks between rival institutions from war-torn Libya next week to try to break a deadlock on the rules for long-awaited elections.

Many governments refuse to acknowledge that they ordered any interference in communications, and sometimes put pressure on telecommunications companies to prevent them from revealing why communications are blocked.

UN Resident Coordinator for UAE Dr. Dena Assaf has praised the UAE’s environmentally-friendly endeavours to protect the environment and achieve sustainable development goals. The UN official hailed Abu Dhabi's decision to ban the use of single-use plastic bags from 1st June, as the first city in the Middle East. This...

Afghanistan is frequently hit by earthquakes especially in the Hindu Kush mountain range, which lies near the junction of the Eurasian and Indian tectonic plates.

Egypt hopes to jump-start the action needed to face a warming world when it takes the presidency of major UN climate talks in November but warns that countries need a "reality check" as progress stalls. Presiding over the inflection point when a decades-long United Nations climate process switches from negotiation...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for the Security Council to extend its authorization of cross-border aid into northwest Syria by a year a policy that veto-holding Russia has criticized.

Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Monday said Lebanon was ready to expel Syrian refugees living in the country if the international community does not work to repatriate them. Lebanon, grappling with its worst ever economic crisis, has the world's highest proportion of refugees in its population, with the government estimating...

Over 18 million people, nearly half the Sudanese population, are expected to be pushed into extreme hunger by September, according to United Nations estimates.

Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement numbers above 100 million for the first time, and the UN warns the resulting hunger crisis could force many more to flee their homes.

In many areas, men in power have actively worked to exclude women, said Guterres, citing Afghanistan, where "nearly 20 million Afghan women and girls are being silenced and erased from sight."

Turkey is ready to host a four-way meeting with the United Nations, Russia, and Ukraine to organize the export of grain through the Black Sea, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday.

Dozens of aid groups Tuesday urged the United Nations Security Council to renew a resolution allowing aid deliveries to millions in war-torn Syria via Turkey, ahead of its expiry next month. The Bab al-Hawa crossing on the border between northern Syria and southern Turkey is the only one through which UN...

The United Nations is launching a crowd-funding campaign for an operation intended to prevent an aging Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea, a senior official said Monday. "We hope to raise $5 million by the end of June," David Gressly, the UN's humanitarian...

The United Nations on Monday begged world trade ministers meeting at the WTO not to impose export restrictions on food for humanitarian purposes, amid a food security crisis. The UN's human rights chief Michelle Bachelet and its trade and development head Rebeca Grynspan said Russia's war in Ukraine was increasing the...

The International Atomic Energy Agency on Sunday urged Iran to resume talks "now" to avoid a crisis that could make it "extremely more difficult" to salvage the 2015 nuclear accord. Iran this week disconnected some cameras allowing international inspectors to monitor its nuclear activities in response to a Western resolution...

Saudi Arabia on Sunday pledged $10 million to help prevent an ageing Yemeni oil tanker from unleashing a potentially catastrophic spill in the Red Sea bordering its waters.

The UN's mission in Lebanon called Sunday for the country's military to guarantee the security of its peacekeepers, alleging personnel were "threatened" by armed men the day before. A routine UNIFIL patrol was confronted on Saturday by "a group of men in civilian clothes" in southern Lebanon.

The second round of UN-facilitated talks aiming to resolve Sudan's political crisis following a military coup has been postponed, a spokesman said Saturday, with a key civilian bloc still refusing to join.

The Bahrain government on Saturday denied there were "active" cases of tuberculosis in its prisons after the Amnesty International rights watchdog accused authorities of failing to check the spread of the contagious bacterial infection.

Clashes between armed groups erupted in Libya's capital on Friday night, according to local media, as the country reels from a failed coup attempt three weeks ago.

IAEA head Rafael Grossi told reporters on Monday that it would be "a matter of just a few weeks" before Iran could get sufficient material needed for a nuclear weapon if they continued to develop their program.

The World Bank on Tuesday approves an additional $1.5 billion in aid for Ukraine, bringing the total planned support package to more than $4 billion.

The United States, Britain, France and Germany have submitted a motion to the UN atomic energy watchdog to censure Iran over its lack of cooperation with the agency, diplomats said Tuesday. The resolution urging Iran to cooperate fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is the first since June...

A coalition of tribes in East Sudan announced on Tuesday the end of a sit-in which blocked roads to the crucial Red Sea port, after the governor announced his resignation.

Negotiators from almost 200 countries will meet in Bonn Monday for climate talks tasked with reigniting momentum on tackling global warming, as Russia's invasion of Ukraine overshadows the threat from rising emissions.

Ankara has also offered to help secure maritime corridors for the export of Ukrainian grain therefore Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is coming to Turkey on Wednesday to discuss the issue.

The talks discussed constitutional principles, including preserving and strengthening state institutions, the supremacy of the constitution and the hierarchy of international agreements, and transitional justice.

Iran said Friday it will respond immediately to any "political" action at a looming meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, after the US vowed to join Europeans in urging Tehran's cooperation.

Centered in the city of Zubair, near Basra in the far south of Iraq, the community has its origins in East Africa.

The UAE has been chosen to lead the Committee on The Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPOUS) out of 100 member states.

The United States warned Tuesday that talks on Yemen's two-month truce were in "trouble" as it pushed for an extension to help support millions at risk. Talks to extend the pause in fighting "haven't ended yet but seem to be in a bit of trouble," said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US...

Iran said Tuesday a report by the UN nuclear watchdog on undeclared nuclear material found at three sites was "not fair". "Unfortunately, this report does not reflect the reality of the negotiations between Iran and the IAEA," foreign ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh told reporters, referring to the Monday report by...