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‘No ordinary session’: Baerbock opens UN General Assembly with call for courage and reform

September 10, 2025

This will be “no ordinary session,” she pledged, with the multilateral system beset by overlapping crises and heightened disunity.A former...

Attacks on schools surge by ‘staggering’ 44 per cent over the past year

Over 41,000 incidents of violence against school-age children were reported by the UN in 2024.Countries with the highest levels of...

Military spending worldwide hits record .7 trillion

Military spending worldwide hits record $2.7 trillion

“The world is spending far more on waging war than in building peace,” the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at...

Nepal PM resigns after deadly crackdown on youth protests; UN urges calm

The unrest, which began Monday as a self-styled “Gen Z protest” against rampant corruption, nepotism and curbs on social media,...

Sudan’s people tortured and killed in ‘slaughterhouses’, rights probe says

Shortly after presenting a mandated report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission...

Peacekeeping: A lifeline for millions seeking a ‘future without fear’

Governments and civil society organizations have so far submitted more than 60 contributions to a review process mandated under the...

Ukraine: Russian strike on village kills over 20, mostly pensioners

The attack on Yarova injured nearly 20 others. Many elderly civilians have decided to stay at home in frontline communities, despite...

World News in Brief: UN chief condemns Russian attacks on Ukraine, Gaza crisis continues, protecting civilians in DR Congo

Secretary-General António Guterres said it marked a “further escalation” of the conflict.Authorities reported more than 80 civilian casualties, including a...

Afghanistan quake: ‘Communities are struggling with basic survival’

September 8, 2025

Briefing correspondents in New York via video link, Shannon O’Hara spoke from Jalalabad on the conditions in Afghanistan just days...

Guterres strongly condemns terror attack in Jerusalem