Austria's Türk wins approval to lead top U.N. human rights body
U.N. career diplomat Volker Türk of Austria won approval to replace former U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet.
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IAEA: Ukraine nuke plant faces 'constant threat' from Russia's war
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog called for a security zone around Ukraine's nuclear power plant.
G-7 announces oil price cap to undercut Russia war profits
Finance ministers from the G-7 are moving to weaken the Kremlin's huge energy profits that pay for its war on Ukraine.
IAEA team to inspect damaged Ukraine plant
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog dispatched a team of inspectors on an urgent mission to secure Ukraine's Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia power station.
Russia blocks outcome of nuclear treaty conference
After four weeks, a crucial session to shore up the world's nuclear arms control regime ended without agreement when Russia rejected a reference to Ukraine.
First ships sail from Ukraine in grain deal with Russia, Turkey and U.N.
Several grain ships left Ukrainian ports under a U.N.-brokered deal that could help ease the global food crisis.
U.N. chief warns nuclear 'guardrails' weakening
The world is perilously close to blundering into nuclear catastrophe, the U.N. secretary-general told a conference on a cornerstone of global nonproliferation.
Russian attack on Ukraine flouts U.N. grain deal
Russia struck Ukraine's port of Odesa, violating the deal brokered by Turkey and the United Nations that Moscow and Kyiv signed less than a day earlier.
G-20 divides over Russia's war in Ukraine
Indonesia's foreign minister called on top diplomats from the Group of 20 major economies to help end Russia's war in Ukraine "sooner than later."
War in Ukraine accelerates poverty and starvation
Skyrocketing food and energy prices caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed 71 million more people into extreme poverty, UNDP reported.
CERN celebrates 'Run 3' and observing three new exotic particles
Scientists cheered as high-energy collisions of protons in the atom smasher were recorded at an unprecedented 13.6 TeV.
Ukraine maps $750B postwar recovery plan at Swiss conference
More than 40 nations and international organizations signed onto a roadmap for Ukraine's recovery with longterm support.
U.N. audit shows staff dodged virus disclosures
More than 40% of U.N. Geneva staff didn't report their vaccination status despite having to do so, and most of those that did weren't fully vaccinated.
Europe in 'urgent' fight against monkeypox
Monkeypox cases tripled in Europe over the past two weeks in what WHO calls a race to prevent the virus from becoming entrenched in the region.
Ocean summit ends declaring a 'global emergency'
More than 150 nations committed to put science at the heart of renewed efforts to tackle the multiple human-caused crises threatening the ocean.
Syrian war kills 1.5% of civilian population
At least 306,887 civilians were killed in the first decade of Syria's conflict "as a direct result of war operations," the U.N. human rights office estimated.