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The UN Security Council is in emergency session in the aftermath of major airstrikes across Iran by the United States and Israel. In retaliation, Tehran has launched its own attacks throughout the Middle East. UN chief António Guterres told ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the heads of UN agencies have condemned Saturday's joint Israeli and US attacks on Iran and the Iranian retaliatory strikes on Israel and the Gulf Regions.

16-year-old Raul John Aju - dubbed the "AI Kid of India" at home - is a business prodigy who advises government and industry and has created several innovative AI tools.

CIVICUS discusses the criminalisation of dissent in the Philippines with Kyle A Domequil, spokesperson of the Free Tacloban 5 Network, a campaign supporting journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio, human rights defender Marielle Domequil and their co-accused ...

SAINT-LOUIS, Senegal, February 27 (IPS) - When you walk through the streets of Senegal's cities, you notice them almost immediately: young boys in worn clothes, clutching plastic cans or tin bowls, weaving between cars and pedestrians to ask for ...

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, February 27 (IPS) - Your morning cup of coffee could soon cost more, thanks to climate change, which is raising the heat on the production of the world's most loved beverage.

Reports on Friday that major cities in Afghanistan have been bombed by the Pakistan military in a new escalation between the two countries have raised fears for civilians already struggling under the harsh rule of the de facto Taliban authorities.

On Friday the General Assembly was briefed on the latest developments of the UN80 Initiative - a system-wide reform effort to make the organisation more effective and fit for the future - including progress on the New Humanitarian Compact and on ...

Four years after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many people are trying to overcome deep-rooted trauma and rebuild what has been lost.

South Sudan was the focus of debate in the UN Human Rights Council on Friday as escalating violence and political tensions - alongside a massive humanitarian emergency and war in neighbouring Sudan - threaten efforts to achieve lasting peace.