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The Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly’s 78th session, told Bloomberg in an interview that Iraq’s vision seeks an active role in the global gas market emphasized adherence to oil agreements, and revealed the nation’s stance on foreign military presence. Oil …

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sounded a warning on the climate crisis Wednesday when he said: “Humanity has opened the gates of hell.” “Horrendous heat is having horrendous effects, distraught farmers watching crops carried away by floods, sweltering temperatures spawning disease, and thousands fleeing in fear as historic fires rage,” Guterres …

Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia Al-Sudani began on Tuesday, his participation in the meetings of the UN General Assembly. A statement from the Prime Minister’s Media Office, received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), stated that “Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani began participating in the meetings of the United Nations …

South Korea on Thursday cautioned that any possible weapons agreement between Pyongyang and Moscow would breach UN Security Council resolutions. This came a day after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Russia. Lim Soo-suk, a South Korean Foreign Ministry spokesman, said that Seoul plans …

The world risks a “great fracture” of its economic and financial systems, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said on Thursday at a summit with Southeast Asia’s ASEAN bloc, China, the United States and others in Indonesia. In a wide-ranging speech that touched on geopolitical tension, multilateral development finance and climate change, …

The link between the Afghan Taliban and proscribed militant outfits Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) remains “strong and symbiotic”, a report published by the United Nations (UN) said. The fourteenth report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team of the UN Security Council’s 1988 Taliban Sanctions Committee — released …

The U.N.’s World Food Program said Friday it is temporarily suspending food aid to Ethiopia due to widespread diversion of food. The WFP said in a statement that nutrition assistance to children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, and school meals programs will continue despite the suspension. “Food diversion is absolutely unacceptable …

Fighting in Sudan could turn into an ethnic-driven conflict if the warring parties do not respect and extend a ceasefire that is supposed to begin Monday, the UN representative to the conflict said. “The growing ethnicization of the conflict risks to expand and prolong it with implications for the region,” …

It is near certain that the next five years will be the warmest period ever recorded, the United Nations has warned, as greenhouse gases and El Nino combine to send temperatures soaring. For the first time, global temperatures are now more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 …

The UN’s Special Representative to Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, called for international assistance, particularly from Iraq’s neighboring countries, to help address the country’s water shortage and drought issues. Speaking on the sidelines of the Iraq Forum on Thursday, Hennis-Plasschaert stressed the importance of finding a comprehensive solution to the climate change …

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the United Nations will stay in Afghanistan to deliver aid to millions of desperate Afghan citizens but warned that funding is drying up. Guterres held a second day of talks with world powers in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday, saying the UN will deliver aid …

Afghan women protested in Kabul on Saturday, defying a crackdown on dissent to urge foreign nations not to formally recognize the Taliban government ahead of a UN summit next week. Since the Taliban surged back to power in 2021, protesters voicing opposition against creeping curbs on women’s rights have been …

The decision to ban Afghan women from working for the United Nations was an “internal social matter”, the country’s Taliban authorities said Friday, a day after the UN Security Council demanded they overturn the ruling. The Security Council resolution passed unanimously by all 15 Council members on Thursday said a …

The head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Chad said it expects to see more refugees fleeing across the border from Sudan to escape the fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Around 10,000 to 20,000 Sudanese have already crossed the border into Chad …

The UN Security Council is set to vote on Thursday to condemn a ban on Afghan women working for the United Nations in Afghanistan and call upon the Taliban administration to “swiftly reverse” its crackdown on the rights of women and girls. The resolution to be voted on – drafted …

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Myanmar’s ruling military to take the initiative in finding a way out of the country’s violent political crisis, including releasing political detainees, after a surprise meeting with the army leader who seized power two years ago. Ban met Monday in the Myanmar …

India will be the world’s most populous country by the end of this month, eclipsing an aging China, the United Nations said Monday. The milestone raises questions about whether India can repeat the economic success that has made China central to the world’s economy and a leading global power. The …

The UN secretary-general on Monday denounced the “devastation” caused by Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine during a Security Council meeting chaired by Russia’s foreign minister. Antonio Guterres said in front of Sergei Lavrov that the Russian invasion was a violation of international law and is “causing massive suffering” to the Ukrainian …

India is on its way to becoming the world’s most populous nation, overtaking China with almost 3 million more people in the middle of this year, data released on Wednesday by the United Nations showed. India’s population is estimated at 1,428.6 million, or 1.4286 billion, against 1.4257 billion for China …

The United Nations made a renewed appeal for international aid for Afghanistan, warning that a cut in funding in response to the Taliban government banning women from education and jobs would perpetuate extreme poverty that lasts for decades. Afghanistan remains cut off from the global financial system since the militant …