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Russian ballistic missile strikes killed 17 people and injured more than 40 in and around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday, local authorities reported.

Weeks have gone by since the World Cup ended. Its aftermath has sparked a broader conversation about who football's biggest tournament belongs to and how it should look in 2030. One postscript to that conversation comes from Mexico.

UNITED NATIONS, August 19 (IPS) - When smoking was common in the corridors of the UN, in the delegate's lounge and in committee rooms during the 1970s and 90s, the office of the Secretary-General sent a memo that read: "Smoking was Discouraged" in .. ...

CIVICUS discusses the state of civic and humanitarian action in Gaza with Ibrahim Arandas, a Palestinian activist and project manager at SPARK Gaza, a civil society organisation that provides humanitarian and psychosocial support.

In the wake of President Hakainde Hichilema of Zambia's re-election for a second five-year term, UN human rights chief has raised concerns over the reported arrests and detention of political opponents in the country.

Intensifying fighting in Sudan has displaced at least another 200,000 people since late 2025, while destructive seasonal floods are compounding the massive humanitarian emergency there, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on .. ...

The UN is warning that aid workers face a deadly and evolving threat, with armed drones reshaping battlefields worldwide - putting humanitarian teams increasingly in the line of fire.

Reports of new illegal Israeli outposts in the occupied West Bank raised alarms at UN Headquarters on Wednesday while the UN rights office called on Israel to condemn its national security minister's words that incite "violence amounting to atrocity ...

What if the infrastructure needed to fight climate change could also help repair the land beneath it?

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday responded to a new round of US sanctions targeting its president and a senior prosecutor, calling them "a flagrant attack" against the court.