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World
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International
9/23/2023 6:58:13 PM
At the annual meeting of world leaders last year, the U.N. chief sounded a global alarm about the survival of humanity and the planet. This year, the alarm rang louder and more ominously, and the message was even more pressing: Wake up and take action — right now.
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World
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Region
9/20/2023 9:46:14 AM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set Wednesday to host a climate meeting marred at its outset by the absence of speakers from the world's top two emitters, China and the United States.
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World
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International
9/18/2023 6:17:34 PM
Yelling that the future and their lives depend on ending fossil fuels, tens of thousands of protesters on Sunday kicked off a week where leaders will try once again to curb climate change primarily caused by coal, oil and natural gas.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
9/13/2023 6:32:25 PM
United Nations Sudan envoy Volker Perthes on Wednesday announced his resignation, amid tensions with Khartoum as the country approaches five months of fighting between the nation's army and a paramilitary group.
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World
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Region
8/29/2023 7:59:26 PM
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Tuesday urged the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to act to calm tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border to prevent a possible escalation.
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World
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Region
8/2/2023 1:48:34 PM
The security situation in wider West Africa could worsen if the crisis in Niger is not resolved, the top UN envoy for the region said late on Tuesday.
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World
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International
7/27/2023 6:02:15 PM
UN chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday pleaded for immediate radical action on climate change, saying that record-shattering July temperatures show Earth has passed from a warming phase into an "era of global boiling."
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
7/27/2023 1:04:32 PM
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has appointed Jasser Al-Shahed, an Egyptian, to the Panel of Experts on Yemen.
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World
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International
7/18/2023 8:01:44 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday warned that artificial intelligence could pose a risk to global peace and security, calling on all member states to urgently set up guardrails to keep the technology in check.
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World
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War in Ukraine
7/18/2023 11:44:14 AM
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said Monday that millions of people facing hunger will "pay the price" of Russia's decision to exit the Ukraine grain deal.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
7/9/2023 11:16:46 AM
Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a "full-scale civil war" that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned Sunday, after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians.
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World
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Region
7/8/2023 4:56:00 PM
In a rare condemnation of Israel, the U.N. chief on Thursday denounced the country's excessive use of force in its largest military operation in two decades targeting a Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
7/7/2023 8:52:31 PM
For many years, Israel played along with the international community’s demand for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state living side-by-side with it in peace.
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World
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International
7/2/2023 10:25:57 AM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Haiti on Saturday for a lightning visit, saying "this is not the time to forget" the Caribbean nation mired in overlapping security, political and economic woes.
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World
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Region
7/1/2023 6:29:50 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Haiti on Saturday for a lightning visit aimed at showing "solidarity" with the country's people as it navigates a "tragic cycle" of overlapping security, political and economic woes, his spokesperson said.
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World
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Region
6/20/2023 10:11:00 AM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday urged Israel to immediately cease and reverse all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory and to fully respect its legal obligations toward Palestinians, a UN spokesman said.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/19/2023 10:39:00 PM
Donors at a UN conference on Monday pledged close to $1.5 billion to combat the humanitarian crisis in Sudan and help its neighbours host refugees fleeing the fighting.
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Business
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Tech
6/13/2023 8:13:26 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres late on Monday expressed support for establishing an AI watchdog body akin to the International Atomic Energy Agency.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/12/2023 9:28:58 PM
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday he is working to extend an agreement that allows grain from war-torn Ukraine to reach the global market and prevent shortages.
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War in Sudan
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War in Sudan
6/10/2023 9:53:12 AM
The status of Volker Perthes, the UN envoy to Sudan, is currently unchanged after the Sudanese government declared him not welcome anymore, said a UN spokesperson late on Friday.
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