UN News - Two months since the Black Sea Grain Initiative kicked into action to help release desperately needed grain and fertilizer from ports in Ukraine and Russia, confidence is returning among global distributors as exports ramp up, said UN humanitarians. Described as a “beacon of hope”
UN News - Hurricane Ian caused devastation across western Cuba and increased its strength and size as it made landfall mid-afternoon local time on Wednesday in the United States; meanwhile, Typhoon Noru underwent an “explosive” intensification before it hit the Philippines, the UN Meteorological agency,
In a ceremony that has become as contentious as the late former prime minister was in life, Japan paid tribute to the assassinated Shinzo Abe on Tuesday, September 27, with flowers, prayers, and a 19-gun salute — the nation's first official funeral for a former
UN News - The UN chief on Monday issued a statement expressing deep sadness at the death of 15 people, including 11 children, at a school in the Russian city of Izhevsk, following an attack by a lone gunman who killed himself at the scene. Two dozen
UN News - World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported. Its latest Food Price Index shows that five commodities - cereals, vegetable oil, dairy, meat
UN News - A $160 million emergency plan to help Pakistan deal with devastating flooding has been launched by the United Nations, aiming to reach “5.2 million of the most vulnerable people in the country”. An estimated 33 million people have been affected by the “worst flooding in
NASA postponed the inaugural test launch of a new moon rocketship by at least four days due to an engine-cooling problem. NASA has declined to set a specific date for relaunching the mission dubbed Artemis I, officials said a second launch attempt might happen as soon
According to the country's geophysics agency, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Sumatra island. Just before 10:30 am, the shallow earthquake off the Mentawai islands, off the west coast of Sumatra, was detected by Indonesia's meteorology and geophysics agency (BMKG), which reported
UN News - The “senseless war” in Ukraine is now six months old, with no end in sight, UN Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council, repeating his ongoing appeal for peace. The “sad and tragic milestone” coincided with Ukraine's 31st anniversary of independence, and Mr
On Ukraine's Independence Day, Russian forces fired rockets at a train station, killing 22 people, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Ukrainian news agencies reported that Zelenskyy told the U.N. Security Council via video that the deadly attack happened in Chaplyne, a town of about 3,500 people
