UNITED NATIONS

The United Kingdom faced a barrage of questions and criticism of its migration and poverty policies in a United Nations review of its human rights record on Thursday amid allegations that it is backsliding on freedoms.

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres told countries gathered at the start of the COP27 summit in Egypt on Monday they face a stark choice: work together now to cut emissions or condemn future generations to climate catastrophe.

Republican U.S. representatives heading to U.N. climate talks in Egypt plan to discuss developing critical minerals used in everything from nuclear energy and electricity transmission to batteries for electric vehicles, the head of the delegation said on Wednesday.

More than 100 Ukrainian women are testifying to their government regarding their traumatic experience with the Russian soldiers.

The United Nations General Assembly voted on Monday to reject Russia's call for the 193-member body to hold a secret ballot later this week on whether to condemn Moscow's move to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine.

The UN secretary-general, as the leading defender of the world body's values, bluntly denounced the annexations.

UN Human Rights Council rejects holding Xinjiang debate

Turkish Cypriots give UN peacekeepers ultimatum: report

At least 458 children have died as a result of the catastrophic floods in Pakistan, accounting for nearly one-third of the total fatalities recorded so far.

U.S. President Joe Biden will co-host a food security summit later in September while in New York for the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, U.S.

UN rights chief to publish Xinjiang report on Wednesday

A ship carrying wheat from Ukraine to the drought-stricken Horn of Africa docked on Tuesday, the United Nations said, the first to make the journey since the Russian invasion six months ago.

Guterres travelled this week to Ukraine, where he met the presidents of Ukraine and Turkey, Volodymyr Zelensky and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in the western city of Lviv Thursday

The U.N. chief and the presidents of Turkey and Ukraine discussed ways to end the war started by Russia and secure Europe's largest nuclear power station, which has come under shelling at the front lines.

Ukrainian forces said on Thursday they had beaten back a Russian attack in the southern region of Kherson, while the death toll from Russian shelling of Kharkiv city in Ukraine's northeast climbed as the nearly six-month war grinds on without let-up.

Russia strikes Kharkiv ahead of Erdogan, UN chief meeting with Zelensky

UN Myanmar envoy begins talks with junta chief

Rohingya demand security as UN rights chief visits Bangladesh camps

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for military activity around Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex to end as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for a renewed shelling and the U.N.

It is said that the Duke of Cambridge plans to address the assembly ahead of his trip to Boston for his Earthshot Prize Awards.

Tensions are mounting ahead of this year's U.N. climate summit, as vulnerable countries ramp up demands for rich countries to pay compensation for losses inflicted on the world's poorest people by climate change.