Teary-eyed, keffiyeh-wearing activists protested Israel’s bombardment of Gaza at the UN climate talks in the UAE Sunday — a tame but rare display in a country where demonstrations are banned. Hindered by UN restrictions preventing them from raising Palestinian flags or chanting certain slogans, more than 100 activists in a COP28 “Blue Zone” ve...
•UN Secretary-General António Guterres This year is set to be the hottest ever recorded, the UN said today, demanding urgent action to rein in global warming and stem the havoc following in its wake. The UN’s World Meteorological Organisation warned that 2023 had shattered a whole host of climate records, with extreme weather leaving “a [&hel...
With the United Nations Security Council deadlocked on the war between Israel and Hamas, the General Assembly prepared to vote Friday on a non-binding resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce.” Israel has already rejected the draft resolution that Jordan has proposed in the name of 22 Arab countries, as the war entered its 21st day, [&hell...
•UN peacekeepers UN peacekeepers, ordered to leave Mali by the country’s leaders, have been forced to rush their withdrawal, destroy equipment left behind and risk their lives on the road out. Following a coup in 2020 the new military rulers in June ordered the peacekeepers out, proclaiming the “failure” of their mission and denouncing its [&h...