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The Security Council is meeting on Syria as the country's transition faces pressure on several fronts. Economic hardship is fuelling unrest, Israeli incursions continue in the south and sectarian tensions persist in Sweida, even as Damascus reports . ...

The number of people living in "multidimensional" poverty has risen for the first time in 15 years, reaching 1.2 billion, as families struggle to meet their basic needs.

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 12 (IPS) - In a world increasingly divided by war, political distrust and competing ideologies, Kazakhstan has spent more than two decades pursuing an unusual diplomatic undertaking: keeping representatives of different .. ...

At least 139 migrants have died after their boat capsized off Djibouti, with a further 84 people still missing, the UN migration agency (IOM) said on Sunday.

Sustaining livelihoods amid crisis in Gaza

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned a Houthi missile attack on Riyadh's main airport that Saudi authorities say killed 12 people and wounded more than 300.

Adam Ouattara and Makongo Traoré have four children and a home on the edge of Torla village in Côte d'Ivoire. He herds cattle. She grows vegetables on a small plot nearby. For years, the dry season pitted their two livelihoods against each other.

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) has voiced concern over reports of mass detentions in India of demonstrators, protest leaders, civil society members, lawyers and journalists, before and during large-scale protests in Delhi on Saturday.

For generations, farming in Viet Nam's Mekong Delta has depended on a delicate bargain. The river flooded, retreated and flooded again, carrying freshwater and sediment across a flat landscape whose vast fields helped turn the country into one of the ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for an immediate end to the renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia, saying he is deeply worried by reports that Eritrean forces are present in the country.