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Amy Pope of the U.S. has been elected as the next director general of the International Organization for Migration.

The United Nations agency said it cannot yet forecast the strength or duration of the El Niño later this year.

A new report says 26% of the world’s population doesn’t have access to safe drinking water and 46% lack access to basic sanitation.

Increasingly sophisticated weapons are being trafficked into Haiti mainly from the United States and especially from Florida amid worsening lawlessness in the impoverished Caribbean nation, according to a U.N. report released Friday.

The Nicaraguan government engaged in “extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, torture, and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment,” according to the report.

Long-haul carrier Emirates has successfully flown a Boeing 777 on a test flight with one engine entirely powered by so-called sustainable aviation fuel.

When Jacinda Ardern announced she was stepping down as New Zealand’s prime minister, speculation began almost immediately about what she might do for a second act.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry backs the United Arab Emirates’ decision to appoint the CEO of a state-run oil company to preside over the upcoming U.N. climate negotiations in Dubai

The United Arab Emirates has named a veteran technocrat who both leads Abu Dhabi’s state-run oil company and oversees its renewable energy efforts to be the president of the upcoming United Nations climate negotiations in Dubai. The announcement on Thursday naming Sultan al-Jaber highlights the balancing act ahead for this crude-producing nation. Al-Jaber is a trusted confidant of UAE leader...

Earth’s protective ozone layer is slowly but noticeably healing at a pace that would fully mend the hole over Antarctica in about 43 years, a new United Nations report says.

Negotiators reached a historic deal at a U.N. biodiversity conference early Monday

In a statement, the actor and humanitarian said she felt it was time “to work differently” by directly engaging with refugees and local organizations.

Kim Yo Jong, the second most powerful person in North Korea, called the U.S. “a barking dog seized with fear,” after the U.S. and the U.N. condemned the country for the recent intercontinental ballistic missile test.

A U.N. report projects that the global population will reach 8 billion people on Tuesday.

The United Nations says the world’s population is reaching the 8 billion mark on Tuesday. The projection came in a U.N. report released in July that said much of the growth expected between now and 2050 is coming from just eight countries.

President Joe Biden spoke in Egypt on Friday about his climate policy fresh off a strong performance by his party in the midterm elections.

President Joe Biden says “it’s more urgent than ever” to increase commitments to fighting global warming. He says new spending on clean energy initiatives has cemented the United States’ role in the effort. Biden commented Friday in a speech at the annual United Nations climate conference being held in Egypt. Biden is likely to face questions about how far the...

Big emitters of the heat-trapping gas methane can expect a call from the United Nations starting next year

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pointed in particular to the United States and China to work together on climate issues, calling for a world Solidarity Pact.

The chair of an influential negotiating bloc in the upcoming United Nations climate summit in Egypt has called for compensation for poorer countries suffering from climate change to be high up on the agenda.