Meeting shortly after the third anniversary of the attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on Israel, followed by devastating — and ongoing — Israeli military operations in Gaza, the Security Council today heard about the perilous state of life on the Strip, unchecked violence in the West Bank and a two-State solution on […]

In Ukraine, large-scale attacks killed at least six civilians, injured 84 and disrupted power and water supplies across 11 regions. Attacks also damaged humanitarian facilities. The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission reported an 85 per cent rise in civilian casualties in September compared with a year earlier.

Following are UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks to the Leaders’ Summit on Biodiversity, at the seventeenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, in Yerevan today: I thank the Government of Armenia for hosting this vital summit, and for sharing with us the wonders of the Caucasus. This landscape, […]