UN chief Antonio Guterres called Friday on "all parties to continue to preserve stability in Libya as a top priority," after the country found itself with two competing prime ministers, raising the specter of renewed violence. He reminded "all institutions of the primary goal of holding national elections as soon...

Libya faced the challenge of two prime ministers on Thursday after parliament named a rival to the existing unity government's chief Abdulhamid Dbeibah, hours after his convoy was targeted in a shooting. The appointment of a second prime minister threatens to spark a new power struggle in the country.

A UN commission set up to obtain reparations from Iraq over the country's 1990 invasion of Kuwait submitted its final report in Geneva on Wednesday after paying out $52.4 billion to the small Gulf state. The last payment was made on January 13 totaling nearly $630 million.

The UN's humanitarian coordinator for war-torn Yemen said he held constructive talks with government officials and Houthi rebels over dealing with the threat posed by a rusting oil tanker abandoned offshore.

Four women groups from the South, the North, Mount Lebanon, and the Bekaa received grants.

The abandoned village of Cyprus became a "haven" for rare plants and animals as well as a "wildlife corridor" that links otherwise fragmented environments right across the island.

The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a British-drafted resolution extending its political mission in Libya for just three months, after several days of a standoff between the United States and Russia.

In an annual report, a panel of UN experts said it had concluded that ‘all military and paramilitary forces loyal to the Sanaa-based authorities fall under this definition’ of having violated the arms embargo. The rebels control the capital Sanaa.

The countries need to work harder to ensure equitable access to vaccines and treatment, track the virus and its emerging variants, and keep restrictions in place, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the UN health agency's executive board.

A Taliban delegation headed by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi is meeting representatives of the US, France, Britain, Germany, Italy, the European Union, and Norway in their first visit to Europe after coming taking over to Afghanistan.

Omicron leads to less severe infection among vaccinated people, has raised long-awaited hopes to bring an end to Covid-19 pandemic.

The spokesman of Saudi led coalition also said the facility was not on the OCHA no-target list.

The past seven years have been the hottest on record, the United Nations confirmed Wednesday, adding that 2021 temperatures remained high despite the cooling effect of the La Nina weather phenomenon. "The warmest seven years have all been since 2015," the UN's World Meteorological Organization said in a statement. And...

Several countries — ranging from regional ones like Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, and Egypt, to Russia and the US — have come together to condemn the attacks. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan has even said his country would “work with the UAE and international partners to hold [the Houthis]...

In Europe and the Americas, foreign visitor arrivals surged by 19 percent and 17 percent, respectively, last year over 2020. In the Middle East, however, arrivals declined by 24 percent in 2021, while in the Asia-Pacific region they were 65 percent below 2020 levels, and 94 percent down on pre-pandemic...

The United Arab Emirates of which Abu Dhabi is the capital is part of a Riyadh-led military coalition that supports Yemen's government against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, who have repeatedly targeted Saudi Arabia with cross-border strikes.

The UAE and the UN have committed to further enhance collective international action to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The biggest constraint right is funding to help some 16 million people, a top UN humanitarian official told the UNSC.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America have welcomed the announcement that the UN Interim Transition Assistance Mission to Sudan is facilitating discussions to resolve Sudan’s political crisis.  "We strongly support this UN-facilitated, Sudanese-led dialogue initiative. We urge all Sudanese political actors...

Abdalla Hamdok, a former UN official and Prime minister of Sudan, resigned just six weeks after being reinstated.

Flights into the rebel-held capital Sanaa have been largely halted by a blockade since August 2016, but there have been exemptions for aid flights. However, Sanaa airport was closed for several days in December after the Saudi-led coalition pounded it with airstrikes.

Dedicated experts at COP26 hailed solid even historic advances in beating back the existential threat of global warming.

Sudan anti-coup protesters faced tear gas at a democracy rally while General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan defended October's military takeover.

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini has acknowledged that stagnating donor funding for close to a decade remained below the amount needed to provide quality services. At the same time, as the refugee population continued to grow, poverty and vulnerabilities skyrocketed.

The head of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, has said the UN will continue supporting Iraq for development and prosperity. Iraqi media reports said that Hennis-Plasschaert "extended our best wishes to the Iraqi people on the occasion of the New Year". She said, "The year...

Lebanon is in the throes of an economic meltdown that has been called by the World Bank as among the planet's worst since the 1850s. The crisis is widely blamed on nepotism and corruption among the country's ruling class.

Guterres has previously called on Lebanese officials to unite to find solutions to the country's dire economic crisis, dubbed by the World Bank as among the planet's worst since the 1850s. Around 80 percent of Lebanon's population is estimated to be living under the poverty line.

The reports said that he will pay tribute to the victims of the Beirut Port blast, and also undertake field visits to interact with people.

Lebanon's spiraling economic crisis is causing abuse against children to soar and is putting one child out of two at risk of violence, the United Nations said on Friday. "One in two children in Lebanon is at serious risk of physical, emotional, or sexual violence, as families struggle to cope...

The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency had been seeking to replace the devices which Iran says were damaged in a June attack it blames on Israel. The IAEA said the two sides "will continue to work on remaining outstanding safeguards issues with the aim of resolving them".

Combating corruption requires cooperation from every person in all societies at all levels in all its forms and manifestations, said Mazen bin Ibrahim Al-Kahmous, President of Saudi Arabia's Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority. Al-Kahmous was speaking at the ninth session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention...

The UN has awarded the UAE with the United Nations Public Service Award in recognition of its role in government modernization. An official statement said the award came in recognition of the UAE’s achievements in the field of government modernization, building new models of future governments, and its global efforts...

Tensions have simmered for years over Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian region of Azerbaijan that broke away from Baku's control in the early 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Lebanon's Education Ministry should extend the December 4, 2021, school registration deadline for Syrian children and end policies that are blocking Syrian refugee children’s access to education, Human Rights Watch said on Friday. Thousands of Syrian refugee children have been out of school, blocked by policies that require certified educational...

Saudi Arabia's Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture Abdulrahman Al-Fadley has signed a cooperation agreement with the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw, which aims at executing the items of the Global Initiative on Reducing Land Degradation and Enhancing Conservation of Terrestrial Habitats. The agreement...

The annual appeal by UN agencies and other humanitarian organisations said that providing aid to the 183 million most vulnerable people across 63 countries next year would require $41 billion.

Libya is less than a month from elections seen as crucial to ending its long-running civil war, but deep political divisions could provoke a delay or even fresh violence.

Based on the 2020 transfers, arms stockpiles remain high and sufficient to sustain any future conflict," the experts said.

President Ebrahim Raisi's comments in a phone call with Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening were his first after the reopening of the talks in Vienna earlier in the day.

The fund will collaborate with the UN agency to build climate-resilience and take shock-informed anticipatory action.

The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has warned that the rising shipping prices could spike global inflation by 1.5 percent in 2023, and that the smaller, trade-dependent countries could be hit badly.

The head of the UN nuclear watchdog will visit Tehran Monday to discuss Iran's nuclear program, the spokesman for Iran's atomic agency said, as several key dates approach.

Rich countries stand accused of failing at the COP26 summit in Glasgow to deliver much-needed finance to vulnerable states at risk of drought, rising seas, fire and storms. The deal, the European Commission says, has "kept the Paris targets alive". However, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stresses it was "not...

After being declared as terrorist organizations, six Palestine Human Rights and Civil Society Organizations wrote letter to UN and other human rights institutions to take action against Israel.

Libya has seen several political and security crises since Muammar Gadaffi was overthrown a decade ago.

Lebanon's government, formed in September, has yet to take serious action to stop its downward spiral.

The global food trade should hit a record high in both volume and value, according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). By the end of 2021, the global food import bill should extend beyond $1.75 trillion, marking a 14 percent increase from the previous...

More than 200 scientists told the COP26 summit Thursday to take immediate action to halt global warming, warning in an open letter that some climate change impacts were "irreversible" for generations. The central task of the Glasgow meeting is to implement the Paris Agreement, with its goal of limiting temperature...

The Pakistani activist shared images of the ceremony on social media.

Yemen is facing an "uphill battle" for peace, UN special envoy Hans Grundberg said on Monday, as the Saudi-led coalition reported another 115 Huthi rebels killed in its latest air strikes around a key northern city.