The UN Secretary-General appealed on Tuesday for an end to the United States-Iran war and the toll it has taken on global trade, as he began an official visit to Pakistan.
The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is robbing children of their loved ones ¨C with some succumbing to the deadly disease themselves, the UN Children¡¯s Fund (UNICEF) reported on Tuesday.
Antibiotics, malaria treatments, painkillers, opioids. More than 250 tonnes of medical products were seized over six years in Central Africa. Behind those numbers is an illicit market that thrives not simply despite the region¡¯s fragile health systems, but in part because of them.
Three years after Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups attacked Israel, UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres has said nothing can justify the atrocities of 7 October ¨C calling for an end to the suffering of Israelis and Palestinians alike.
The world is running out of time to put guardrails on artificial intelligence, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker T¨¹rk warned Monday, as a ¡°ruthless race¡± between companies and countries raises concerns about human safety and even humanity¡¯s survival.
Intense fighting in Yemen has forced more than 184,000 people from their homes since the start of August, most of them since early September, the UN migration agency (IOM) said on Monday.