The US, meanwhile, says it is "disappointed" that there is "no progress made" after two days of indirect talks with Iran brokered by an EU envoy in Doha. President Joe Biden's administration has "made clear our readiness to quickly conclude and implement a deal on mutual return to full compliance".

The war in Ukraine could allow illegal drug production to flourish, while the opium market's future hinges on the fate of crisis-wracked Afghanistan, the United Nations warned Monday. Previous experience from the Middle East and Southeast Asia suggests conflict zones can act as a "magnet" for making synthetic drugs.

Iran said Thursday that it remains "serious" about reaching a revived nuclear deal with major powers that end economic sanctions and to which the United States is again a party.  Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian was speaking at a joint news conference with visiting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov as talks between...

An estimated 2,000 homes have been destroyed by the deadly earthquake in Afghanistan, and a lack of machinery is hampering a rush to find survivors, a UN envoy said Wednesday. The earthquake struck a remote border region of Afghanistan overnight killing at least 1,000 people and injuring hundreds more, with...

Representatives of the Tripoli-based High Council of State and of the parliament, based in eastern Libya, began meetings in Cairo more than a week ago, but without success.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday that Russia should be held "accountable" if it keeps blocking the export of vitally needed grain from Ukraine.

President Barham Saleh warned that tackling climate change "must become a national priority for Iraq as it is an existential threat to the future of our generations to come".

The Global Connectivity Report 2022 argues that while easy, affordable access to fast broadband is near-ubiquitous in most rich-world nations, vast swaths of humanity remain excluded from the immense possibilities offered by the online experience, stunting economic development and deepening global inequalities.

Aid agencies and Western governments had urged the Yemeni government and Houthi rebels to extend the truce, which went into effect in April and significantly reduced the intensity of fighting in a conflict the UN says has triggered the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Although Turkey has become the leading importer of European plastic waste after China banned imports in 2018 but according to expert only 20 to 30 percent of imported plastic waste is recyclable.

"We must end fossil fuel pollution and accelerate the renewable energy transition before we incinerate our only home," Secretary-General António Guterres said.

Yemen's Houthi rebels said Wednesday they are considering renewing a United Nations-brokered truce with the government which expires in two weeks. The Houthis' "Supreme Political Council will consider the request for an extension of the truce, which ends on June 2," the rebels' Saba news agency said.

Arab countries at the United Nations called Wednesday for an independent, international probe into what they called the assassination of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was shot dead as she covered an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank.

World food prices hit an all-time high in March following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which accounted for 20 percent of global wheat and maize exports over the past three years

The United Nations has stressed on a more strategic approach to address the economic and fiscal crisis faced by the Palestinian Authority and Government. A report issued by the office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) for the upcoming meeting of the Ad...

The Russian military had announced a three-day ceasefire at the site starting on Thursday, but a Ukrainian commander said there was still heavy fighting at the sprawling Azovstal complex, where hundreds of soldiers and civilians have been holed up for weeks under heavy bombardment.

Humanity is suffering from a "broken perception of risk", spurring us into activities and behaviours that cause climate change and a surging number of disasters around the globe, the UN warned Tuesday. In a fresh report, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, or UNDRR, found that between 350 and...

"The United States is deeply troubled and disappointed by the court's decision," US State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement.

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is facing a financial implosion for the last 10 years, which could cause an interruption or end of services to five million refugees.

Turkey has been trying to negotiate an end to the conflict between the two countries, hosting meetings between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in its capital Istanbul, as well as a summit between the two countries' foreign ministers in Antalya.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine next week after a stop in Moscow to confer with President Vladimir Putin about the war, the UN said Friday. Guterres will see Zelensky and Ukraine's foreign minister on Thursday, two days after visiting Moscow, the United...

Martha Delgado, President of the UN-Habitat Assembly called for resilient, sustainable “smart cities” that are more inclusively governed and better prepared to navigate future shocks and crises.

Libya's rival government selected by parliament in the east met for the first time Thursday, challenging a cabinet brokered by the UN and based in the capital Tripoli in the west. The troubled North African nation has had two opposing executives since February, when parliament named ex-interior minister Fathi Bashagha...

Child vaccination rates in Lebanon have dropped by more than 30 percent, compounding a health crisis marked by drug shortages and an exodus of trained professionals, the United Nations said Wednesday.

The UN chief said countries need to fulfil and accelerate dose-sharing and donation commitments in order to reach the billions who have so far not received vaccine shots.

The 200 volunteers at work in Baghdad remove garbage from a stretch of one of the mighty rivers that gave birth to the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Experts say the chances of reforms will remain slim so long as the permanent members refuse to accept any dilution of their power.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent ‘shocks’ through markets for staple grains and vegetable oils, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization has said.

The country has been battered by triple-digit inflation, soaring poverty rates, and the collapse of its currency since a 2020 debt default, and officials in Beirut applauded the announcement as it will open the door to additional financial support.

Two-weeks of virtual talks were contentious from the start, as nearly 200 nations grapple with hard choices about how to rapidly purge carbon pollution from their economies.

The UN said Yemen's warring parties have agreed to a two-month extendable truce starting Saturday, the first day of Ramadan for many Muslims, and an accord on fuel shipments and Sanaa airport. "The parties to the conflict have responded positively to a United Nations proposal for a two-month truce which...

Migrants from African countries ravaged by war and poverty, make desperate bids to reach Europe through Mediterranean sea which is the world's deadliest migration route.

The world must not forget the millions of people in need across the Middle East and North Africa, UN chief Antonio Guterres told the Security Council.

The vote comes after 141 countries approved a previous non-binding resolution on March 2 that similarly demanded that Russia immediately cease the use of force against Ukraine. In that vote, five states, including Russia, voted against and 35 abstained.

Save the children data showed that 18,000 Iraqi children and 7,300 minors from 60 other countries are stuck in Syrian camps.

Four of the six GCC members feature within the top 50 of the World Happiness Report, and are atop the rankings among the Arab countries.

The UN has described the humanitarian situation in the city as "extremely dire" with "residents facing a critical and potentially fatal shortage of food, water and medicines."

UAE lauded the UN Security Council's decision to list the Houthi militias as a terrorist organisation.

It calls on member states to "integrate the bicycle into public transportation, in urban and rural settings in developing and developed countries."

With Russia threatening to take ‘full control’ of several major cities in Ukraine, the fourth round of talks failed to deliver a breakthrough on the 19th day of the invasion, even as the US tried to talk down China from helping its neighbor.

Russia called a meeting of the 15-member Security Council to repeat its previously made, unsubstantiated claims that Ukraine, with US help, had operated a network of 30 laboratories carrying out ‘very dangerous biological experiments’ aimed at spreading ‘viral pathogens’ from bats to people.

On Thursday, the US ambassador in Libya, Richard Norland, also expressed fears over an escalation.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had called for resources to meet the increasing humanitarian needs in Ukraine.

UN officials said they expected the wave of refugees to intensify further as the Russian army pressed its offensive, particularly toward the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. Since Russia invaded on February 24, a total of 922,400 people have fled Ukraine to Poland. Hungary, Moldova, Romanian and Slovakia have also seen Ukrainian...

With fears growing of nuclear conflict, the US and Russian armed forces have set up a new direct phone line to reduce the risks of ‘miscalculation’. But Vladimir Putin has been unmoved as Russia has become an economic, sporting, and cultural pariah.

President Vladimir Putin ordered on Sunday Russia's nuclear forces onto high alert in response to what he called ‘unfriendly’ steps by the West. Russia has the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and a huge cache of ballistic missiles. The United States, the world's second-largest nuclear power, slammed the order.

According to the UN, if the war continued, there will be around 18 million Ukrainians that will be affected in humanitarian terms.

The Federation of Saudi Chambers of Commerce signed an agreement to host the local network of the United Nations Global Compact in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This affirms the Federation’s role in supporting the efforts of the UN Global Compact and realizing the importance of corporate sustainability in implementing...

Speaking at a monthly meeting on the Middle East, Riyad Mansour evoked the term “apartheid” 15 times and called on the Council to protect “our long-suffering people.”

According to the UN, a full-scale Russian invasion on Ukraine would have a devastating global impact that would likely spark a new "refugee crisis", with traders fretting over supplies of key commodities including wheat and metals.