Indonesia and Guinea battle it out for the final place at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games [Miguel Medina/AFP]
News from the United Nations
- Climate crisis: UN chief lays out solutions blueprint for clean energy transition June 23, 2026As a deadly heatwave continued to grip Europe on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres issued an impassioned appeal for more ambitious global action on climate change caused by fossil fuels, to prevent irreversible damage.
- Afghanistan in crisis: Drought, malnutrition and a worsening humanitarian situation June 22, 2026Imagine being one of a family of nine and sitting down to a meal of potato peelings and other scraps, boiled up into a soup. This is the harsh reality for many of Afghanistan’s most vulnerable families, forced on them by climate change and drought, widespread malnutrition and increasing restrictions on women, since the Taliban […]
- AI is getting women wrong as gender bias persists, data reveals June 22, 2026As artificial intelligence reshapes how people work, communicate and access information, UN Women warned on Monday that the technology is reproducing old gender stereotypes, which amplify online abuse and leave women out of the decisions that will define the digital future.
- Myanmar: Aid decline compounds suffering amid ongoing military attacks June 22, 2026A drop in humanitarian assistance is worsening the suffering of millions of people in Myanmar after five years of conflict-related violence, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said in a report published on Monday.
- ‘Better future for Syria remains within reach,’ UN Security Council hears June 22, 2026Syria has emerged after more than a decade of crisis with “clear signs of progress”, but acute needs remain and efforts must boost support so the country can “move from survival towards recovery”, UN officials told the Security Council on Monday.
- World at ‘perilous moment’ as leaders warn HIV gains are at risk June 22, 2026Four decades after AIDS first emerged as a global crisis, world leaders, advocates and community representatives gathered at UN Headquarters on Monday issued a stark warning: progress against HIV is slowing just as financial pressures and shrinking support threaten to reverse decades of gains.
- Security Council LIVE: Warnings of ‘dangerous cycle of escalation’ in Ukraine June 22, 2026Deadly drone and missile attacks in Ukraine over the weekend represented a “dangerous cycle of escalation” in Russia’s full-scale four-year-old war, the Security Council heard on Monday from Mohamed Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, while Edem Wosornu, crisis response director at the UN relief office, […]
- Sudan: Drone attacks endanger civilians and shut down critical services in El Obeid June 22, 2026Escalating violence in and around the Sudanese city of El Obeid is putting civilians at increased risk and disrupting essential services, the UN aid coordination office OCHA said on Monday.
- World News in Brief: Pope Leo urges action on hunger, humanitarian strain deepens in Gaza, families return to Lebanon June 22, 2026Pope Leo called on the international community to renew its commitment to tackling hunger and malnutrition, describing access to adequate food as a “fundamental human right” during a visit to the World Food Programme (WFP) headquarters in Rome on Monday.
- Global Ebola cases top 1,000 as UN races to reach DR Congo’s most vulnerable June 22, 2026As global confirmed Ebola cases reach 1,000, nearly three million children and adolescents are at risk in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), while efforts increase to treat prisoners near the epicentre of the current outbreak, UN agencies warned on Monday.