UN agencies warn humanitarian system in Sudan ‘could collapse’
UN aid agencies on Monday said they may be forced to scale back humanitarian aid in Sudan – home of the world’s worst hunger and displacement crisis – due to funding shortfalls.
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Daily Memo: MBS Appeals for Help, Syrian Protests Erupt
Riyadh concerned. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and U.S. Central Command Commander Adm. Brad Cooper held talks in Jeddah amid escalating fighting
Money sent home by migrants nearly doubles in a decade
Migrants sent $728.6 billion home to families in low and middle-income countries in 2025, nearly double the amount recorded a decade earlier, according to a new report from the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural De...
Highly persistent toxic waste threatens ‘many, if not all, human rights’
Poor management of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste threatens “many, if not all, human rights,” the newly appointed independent human rights independent expert on the rising threat told the Human Rights Council on Mon...
Civilians bear the brunt, with deadly US strikes in Iran and thousands displaced in Yemen
Independent UN human rights investigators called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on Monday following a series of United States airstrikes on Iran in recent weeks that have killed civilians as tensions ripple th...
Countries must increase AI regulation to avoid ‘existential risks’: Türk
Voluntary self-regulation by companies developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is “nowhere near sufficient” to address existing harms and prevent advanced autonomous AI models from circumventing human safeguards...
IAEA chief underscores commitment to nuclear safety and verification
The Director General of the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, opened its 70th General Conference on Monday in Vienna with a message full of optimism, stressing that despite the many difficulties and tensions the world is witnes...
The Houthis and the Power Vacuum in the Arab World
The conflict between Saudi Arabia and Yemen’s Houthi rebels exposes a strategic weakness of the Arab world. Iran is using the conflict to disrupt Red Sea
South Sudan: UNICEF reaches communities cut off by conflict in Jonglei state
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and partners have delivered lifesaving assistance to families in conflict-affected communities in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, many of whom had gone months without humanitarian support.
Guterres: Old global order must change as power shifts to emerging economies
UN Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders of a bloc of major emerging economies in New Delhi on Sunday that a more balanced global order requires an overhaul of the institutions built after the Second World War,...
Married at 13, pregnant and starving: Child brides of Yemen
Fatimah* was 13 when she was married off to an older man. Two years later, she gave birth to twin daughters.
George Answers Your Questions: On Russia and the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement
Editor's note: There will be no "George Answers Your Questions" next week, as George will be traveling. George Answers Your Questions: An Attempt to