Latest Updates Around The World
U.S. President Donald Trump made the announcement on social media, and the U.S. attorney general said Mr. Maduro and his wife would face “the full wrath of American justice on American soil, in American courts,” based on a 2020 indictment during the first Trump administration in New York. UN photo/Cia Pak Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro […]
High Commissioner Volker Turk said the series of draft proposals before the Israeli Knesset raises serious concerns about discrimination, due process violations, and violations of international human rights and humanitarian law. “When it comes to the death penalty, the United Nations is very clear and is against it under all circumstances“It is extremely difficult to […]
Since October’s fragile ceasefire began as phase one of the US-led peace plan, thousands of tents and hundreds of thousands of tarpaulins have been distributed. Yet partners estimate that more than a million people – about half of Gaza’s population – are still in urgent need of shelter support. “Needs remain enormous, and the harsh […]
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain uprooted, many living in makeshift tents pitched on bare ground or squeezed into damaged buildings without reliable access to water, electricity, healthcare or sanitation. Winter rains have compounded the hardships, flooding shelters and turning camp paths into heavy mud. Fragile hope But amid the devastation, displaced families say the […]
Even as austerity, conflict and climate shocks strained healthcare systems worldwide – disrupting essential services in many countries – governments and partners still made notable gains in disease control, prevention and preparedness. The UN health agency say the mixed picture of progress and pressure 2025 underlines both what is possible through evidence-based collaboration and what […]
The amendments adopted on 29 December to the Law to Cease UNRWA Operations “seek to further impede UNRWA’s ability to exercise and implement its mandated activities,” a UNRWA spokesperson said statement issued by the spokesperson of Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “The law and its amendments are inconsistent with the status and international legal framework applicable […]
In a statement, UNICEF identified the final victim as seven-year-old Ata Mai; he drowned on December 27 during “severe flooding” at a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons in Sudaniyeh, northwestern Gaza City. He is just the youngest child in Gaza to succumb to “extreme winter conditions and a lack of safe shelter,” said Edouard […]
According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHASince December 26, attacks across the country have also caused widespread damage to civilian infrastructure, leaving parts of the country without electricity, heating and water as temperatures plunged below zero. Across the country, authorities reported nearly 100 civilian casualties during this period. The most serious […]
UN photo/Loey Felipe A broad view of the General Assembly. (file photo) Tuesday December 30, 2025 UN news Follow our live coverage as the General Assembly and its Fifth Committee meet today to conclude negotiations and vote on the United Nations regular budget for 2026. The Fifth Committee is responsible for administrative and budgetary matters, […]
The war, which broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has destroyed civilian infrastructure, collapsed basic services and caused one of the world’s largest displacement crises. A nutritional research A survey this month in the town of Um Baru in the Sudanese state of […]
