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News from the United Nations
- As AI evolves, pressure mounts to regulate ‘killer robots’ June 1, 2025A world in which algorithms determine the fate of soldiers and civilians alike is no longer hypothetical. AI-driven drones are reshaping warfare, raising deep ethical questions about autonomy in combat. As international policymakers scramble to set ground rules, the race is on to rein in this rapidly-evolving technology.
- Helpless in the face of hunger: Gaza families pray for deliverance – or death June 1, 2025“I stood helpless in the face of my son's hunger. I cried a lot and told him to drink from our little water to satisfy his hunger,” said Zeenat, a young Palestinian woman speaking to UN News from the battered Gaza Strip.
- Lifting of Israeli blockade ‘the only way to avert mass starvation’ in Gaza: UNRWA chief June 1, 2025Amid disputed reports of Israeli forces firing on civilians near a new privatised aid distribution point in southern Gaza, the head of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, said on Sunday that lifting the months-long aid blockade of the enclave is the only way to avoid “mass starvation”.
- Gaza is the ‘hungriest place on earth’, as Israel continues stranglehold on aid May 30, 2025Starving Gazans continue to be deprived of aid as international relief efforts are being severely constrained by the Israeli authorities, the UN humanitarian affairs coordination office OCHA said on Friday.
- Flavoured nicotine products driving youth addiction, WHO warns May 30, 2025For most nicotine users today, their first experience with the drug is a flavoured product – making it easier, and more appealing, to try.
- Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins May 30, 2025In Al-Jundi Al-Majhool Square – once the bustling heart of Gaza City – music now floats among the tents. The square, transformed into a sprawling displacement camp, shelters hundreds of families driven from their homes by more than 19 months of war.
- World News in Brief: Education suffers amid DR Congo violence, WHO greenlights RSV vaccines, more hurricanes ahead for Haiti May 30, 2025In Ituri, a province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), intensifying conflict, intercommunal violence and mass displacement are forcing hundreds of thousands of children out of school.
- ‘Justice is long overdue’: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism May 30, 2025Secretary-General António Guterres renewed his calls for Member States and the United Nations to work towards justice and reparations for Africans and the diaspora in a speech in New York on Friday.
- UN’s lifesaving programmes under threat as budget crisis hits hard May 30, 2025The UN is facing a deepening budget crisis that threatens lifesaving operations worldwide. From refugee aid in Mozambique to maternal health services in Afghanistan, critical programmes are on the brink of collapse unless urgent funding is secured.
- ‘This is not just ice’: Glaciers support human livelihoods, UN deputy chief says May 30, 2025UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed called for urgent action to protect water-related ecosystems in remarks to the International Conference on Glaciers’ Preservation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on Friday.