UN chief urges Sudan's warring parties to halt hostilities during Muslim holy month of Ramadan
The United Nations chief is urging Sudanโs warring parties to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the countryโs unity and โcould ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions.โ.
Israeli academics and artists call on Biden and UN to shun Netanyahu during his upcoming US visit
Thousands of Israeli academics and artists have urged U.S. President Joe Biden and United Nations Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres to shun Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his scheduled visit to the U.S. next week.
The UN is undertaking an unprecedented 6-month withdrawal of nearly 13,000 peacekeepers from Mali
The United Nations is in the throes of what Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres calls an โunprecedentedโ six-month exit from Mali on orders of the West African nationโs military junta, which has brought in mercenaries from Russiaโs Wagner Group to help fight an Islamic insurgency.
UN chief welcomes Kenya's offer to `positively consider' leading police force to combat Haiti gangs
The United Nations chief has welcomed Kenyaโs offer to โpositively considerโ leading a multinational police force to help combat Haitiโs gangs and improve security in the violence-wracked Caribbean nation.
UN seeks court opinion on climate in win for island states
The countries of the United Nations led by the island nation of Vanuatu adopted what they called a historic resolution Wednesday calling for the U.N.โs highest court to strengthen countriesโ obligations to curb warming and protect communities from climate disaster.
Donors offer over $9B for Pakistan after devastating floods
Dozens of countries and international institutions pledged more than $9 billion to help Pakistan recover and rebuild from this summer's devastating floods to help the country through what the U_N_ chief called โa climate disaster of monumental scale.โ.
Biden tightens methane emissions rule amid push for more oil
The Biden administration has ramped up efforts to reduce methane emissions, targeting the oil and gas industry for its role in global warming even as President Joe Biden has pressed energy producers for more oil drilling to lower prices at the gasoline pump.
UK's Johnson to urge climate action over 4-day trip to US
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is travelling to the United States with senior Cabinet officials to urge world leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly to take urgent action on climate change ahead of this fall's COP26 climate summit in Scotland.
The Latest: Mayors ask Biden for consult on climate migrants
The mayors of a dozen major U.S. cities, including Los Angeles, New York City and San Diego, are asking President Joe Biden to consult them as the administration studies how to identify and resettle people displaced by drought, rising seas and other effects of climate change.
Group urges climate adaptation funding in pandemic recovery
A group of more than 3,000 scientists from 130 countries also released a statement Friday before the summit linking investment in the environment with pandemic recovery plans. โThe twin threats of COVID-19 and climate change are, above all, caused by human actions. It reversed the withdrawal by President Donald Trump, who ridiculed the science of human-caused climate change. The adaptation summit will focus more on how to build a world that can cope with the effects of climate change that already is happening. โWhile the year ahead will be defined by our recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the centuries ahead will be defined by how green that recovery actually is,โ Ban said.
The Latest: UN chief says pandemic toll is 'mind-numbing'
In a statement released after the global death toll from the pandemic crossed 1 million, Guterres called it a โmind-numbing figure." The Health Ministry raised Indiaโs confirmed total since the pandemic began to more than 6.1 million on Tuesday, but said the country had a little less than 1 million active coronavirus cases. It also reported 776 fatalities in the last 24 hours, which pushed the death toll to 96,318. Since then India has seen a sharp decrease in the number of new daily cases. But the number of new cases has begun slowing after authorities enforced stringent social distancing rules.