The UN barometer of world food prices has surged to a new peak, reaching its highest level since July 2011, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced. The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks the international prices of a basket of food commodities, is up 3.9 percent from September,...

MINUSCA mission said the Egyptian police contingent was unarmed and traveling in a bus marked UN at the time of the "deliberate and unspeakable attack".

Kuwait has also urged other members to follow suit so that the UN can do its tasks properly.

Climate adaptation means adjusting to the current effects of climate change and preparing for its predicted impacts in the future.

Israel's designation of six leading Palestinian civil society groups as outlawed "terrorist organizations" is an unjustified attack, the UN human rights chief said Tuesday.

The UN's blunt report comes as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the COP26 host, said he was "very worried" that the 12-day climate talks could go awry.

The FAO and Jordan’s National Center for Agricultural Research have signed a cooperation agreement in this regard.

Algeria on Friday ruled out returning to roundtable talks over Western Sahara, days after the UN appointed a new envoy for the conflict. “We confirm our formal and irreversible rejection of the so-called roundtable format,” Algeria’s Western Sahara envoy Amar Belani told the APS news agency.

Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan in particular have faced mounting direct and indirect pressure to return to Syria, in violation of the principle of nonrefoulement.

The UN's Environment Program said government fossil fuel production plans this decade were "dangerously out of sync" with emissions goals.

A United Nations report has depicted a positive picture of global foreign direct investment during the first half of 2021. As much as $852 billion in FDI was recorded by countries across the world on the back of growing investor confidence.

Many banks and businesses, including pharmaceutical and medical companies around the world, over-comply with sanctions out of fear of potential penalties.

UN agencies have said the impact of water shortages in Iraq is becoming evident through the lower crop yields for 2021.

UN Secretary-General Antonion Guterres has called for changes in the way the world produces, consumes, and wastes food. His remarks came on the occasion of World Food Day, whose theme this year is “Our actions are our future.”

The UAE has won membership on the UN Human Rights Council for the 2022-2024 term after obtaining 180 votes from countries of the Asia-Pacific group.

The security situation has been particularly difficult in Marib's Abdiya district, where the UN says the movement of aid and some 35,000 people has been "extremely restricted", including for 17,000 "extremely vulnerable" people.

Qatari support is considered a crucial lifeline for impoverished Palestinians living in Gaza, which has been under Israeli blockade since 2007.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said a reduction of cases in any one country will not be sustained over time without a coordinated, equitable approach. ‘For everyone’s sake, we must urgently bring all countries to a high level of vaccination coverage,’ he said.

Agriculture accounts for around six percent of Turkey's GDP and employs 18 percent of the country's workforce.

The Gulf Cooperation Council and the European Union have agreed to revive free trade deal talks, according to EU Ambassador Patrick Simonet.

To mark the International Day of Older Persons, the United Nations has called for digital equality to be applied to all sections of the world population no matter what the age of a person.

Rich countries must deliver on a promise to channel $100 billion a year in climate finance to developing nations, otherwise they may jeopardize November’s critical negotiations to limit global warming, said the head of the UN-backed Green Climate Fund.

The common belief in the international community is that the reason behind Lebanon’s economic crisis is corruption and misgovernance. Thus, most foreign powers have promised to provide aid only after Lebanon enacts reforms to curb corruption and make governance more transparent.

Jerandi said Saied took the "exceptional measures" to put the country "back on track to respect the principles of democracy."

DUBAI: An estimated 47 percent of people worldwide are offline, and the cost of available broadband exceeds affordability targets in 50 percent of developed countries. The importance of making such populations digitally inclusive was discussed during the World Economic Forum EDISON Alliance discussion a couple of days ago. During the...

Abbas called on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to "convene an international peace conference."

The US and EU have said at the UN that Iran’s new government has shown no indication it was ready to revive the nuclear accord.

The world must act, and act now, if we are to reach zero hunger by 2030, the UAE’s Minister of State for Food Security Mariam Hareb Almheiri has said at a UN summit. "The magnitude of the task that faces the global community in meeting SDG 2 — Zero Hunger...

The United Nations has called for the world to redouble its renewable energy efforts to avert a climate emergency.

The United States promised an additional $290 million but said the ultimate solution was to end the war

Talks between Iran and the five other countries still party to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal were launched in April aimed at bringing the United States back into the agreement.

Turkish president told the UN General Assembly that Turkey will complete the ratification process in time for the November UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow.

The Force for Good initiative has said the UN has funding gap of $84-101 trillion in achieving the SDGs.

But if widening economic gaps between the developed world and the poor countries persists, only a few will enjoy the dividends, said a report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

The deal struck with Iran on Sunday over access to surveillance equipment at Iranian nuclear facilities allows space for diplomatic talks, according to IAEA director general Rafael Grossi. It soothes a sore point in deadlocked talks to resuscitate the 2015 deal to curb Iran's nuclear programme.

Since the start of the crisis in 2019, several thousand Lebanese have emigrated, many of them to Cyprus.

An annual survey by the Clean Air Fund has highlighted that the air quality remains low on the list of funding priorities

There is increasing international alarm over the sheer volumes of fossil-fuel based plastics entering the environment, as microplastics have infiltrated even the most remote regions of the planet. Tiny fragments have been discovered inside fish in the deepest recesses of the ocean and peppering Arctic sea ice.

That number goes up to 5 out of 6 people when one redefines poverty beyond the usual fiscal lines and adds social indicators to it.

A new report by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change showed unequivocally that the climate is changing faster than previously feared. Experts warn that with higher temperatures and humidity towards the end of this century, parts of the Gulf will experience periods of "heat stress conditions that will be...

Unicef is calling for the urgent restoration of power supply, which is the only solution to keep water services running.

Each of about 100,000 needy families in the governorates of the Gaza Strip would receive $100 per month in cash.

Daraa, which borders Jordan and is close to the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, is widely seen as the cradle of the 2011 uprising in Syria, which sparked a decade-long civil war that has killed almost half a million people. UN has said civilians were suffering from acute shortages of food, fuel,...

36-year-old Sadat commands 20,000 men and remains optimistic of a win against Taliban.

SOS Mediterranee said that its vessel, the Ocean Viking, had carried out six separate operations in international waters since Saturday

Erdogan has vowed ‘life will restart in Varosha’ during a visit to mark 47 years since the invasion that split Cyprus.

Germany has donated €109 million ($128.73 million) to “support 4.8 million Syrians to access lifesaving food and over 600,000 children to have nutritious food through an emergency school feeding program.”  

Turkey has sought a change in a UN climate framework so it won’t have to supply technology to developing countries

On a trip to the north of divided Nicosia on Tuesday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said there should be "two peoples and two states with equal status." Victoria Nuland, the US under secretary of state for political affairs, voiced concern that Erdogan's remarks would have a "chilling effect" on...

A full 23 million children missed out on basic childhood vaccines last year, as routine health services were hit by the pandemic