Reuters The global death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 700,000 on Wednesday, according to a Reuters tally, with the United States, Brazil, India and Mexico leading the rise in fatalities. Nearly 5,9

HARARE, July 30 (Reuters): The U.N. food agency on Thursday appealed for an additional $250 million to provide relief to millions of Zimbabweans as the COVID-19 pandemic bites and warned that 60% of the po

KABUL, July 27 (Reuters): More than 1,280 Afghan civilians have been killed in the first six months of the year as fighting rages in Afghanistan despite a pact between the United States and Taliban militan

NEW YORK, July 24 (Reuters): More than 40 countries accused North Korea on Friday of illicitly breaching a United Nations cap on refined petroleum imports and called for an immediate halt to deliveries unt

LONDON, July 15 (Reuters): Levels of childhood immunisations against dangerous diseases such as measles, tetanus and diphtheria have dropped alarmingly during the COVID-19 pandemic, putting millions of chi

GENEVA, July 7 (Reuters): Syrian and Russian planes have carried out deadly aerial strikes amounting to war crimes on schools, hospitals and markets in Idlib province, U.N. investigators said on Tuesday in

MADRID, jULY 6 (Reuters): The coronavirus outbreak has highlighted serious weaknesses in Spain's social security system and a failure to address the plight of the poorest people, a UN expert said on Mo

BRUSSELS, June 30 (Reuters): The United Nations pushed governments at a virtual conference on Tuesday for nearly $10 billion in aid for Syria, where nine years of war has displaced millions in a human

LONDON, June 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The coronavirus pandemic is reversing progress on ending child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM), jeopardising the futures of millions of girls, a s

NEW YORK, June 24 (Reuters): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Israel on Wednesday to abandon its plans to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank, warning that it threatened

NAIROBI, June 19 (Reuters): The United Nations' refugee agency is marking this year's World Refugee Day with the message that "every action counts", as it faces the challenge of the COVID

VIENNA, June 19 (Reuters): The U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation Board of Governors called on Iran on Friday to stop denying the agency access to two suspected former sites and to cooperate fully with it, d

  United Nations, June 18 (IANS): Turkish diplomat Volkan Bozkir has been elected President of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly.   Bozkir, who was running uncontested, won unanim

New Delhi, June 18 (IANS): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday expressed gratitude to the member nations for supporting India's membership to the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying "India will wi

UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Reuters): Mexico, India, Ireland and Norway were elected to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, but the 193 U.N. member states must return on Thursday to continue voting

UNITED NATIONS, June 17 (Reuters): A Saudi Arabia-led military coalition fighting in Yemen asked the United Nations on Tuesday to share details of its accusations that the coalition was responsible for 222

GENEVA, June 16 (Reuters): U.N. human rights experts said on Tuesday that Israel's plan to annex significant parts of the occupied West Bank would violate international law banning the taking of territory b

GENEVA, June 16 (Reuters): African countries are lobbying to set up a United Nations commission of inquiry into "systemic racism" and "police brutality" in the United States and other p

NEW YORK, June 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): The coronavirus pandemic has put millions of children at risk of being pushed into underage labor, reversing two decades of work to combat the practice and p

NEW YORK, June 9 (Reuters): United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday told staff they were not banned from joining anti-racism demonstrations sweeping the United States and other countries, in a let