North Korea’s weapons programme defies COVID outbreak, reaches ‘uncharted territory’
North Korea forged ahead with its missile programme in 2022 and took steps toward resuming testing of nuclear bombs, as…
2022 Year in Review: Amid global turmoil, UN doggedly pursues international climate agreements
Despite strong evidence that human activity played a role in catastrophic weather events, and the emergence of a fuel crisis…
2022 Year in Review: 100 million displaced, ‘a record that should never have been set’
A hundred million people were forced to leave their homes in 2022. The UN continued to help those in need…
Blackouts pose potentially deadly risk to Ukrainians who need power for lifesaving medical devices
For Olena Isayenko, the beeping sound her oxygen machine makes when disconnected from power is far scarier than the screeching…
Horn of Africa faces most severe drought in more than two generations – UNICEF
The number of children suffering from dire drought conditions across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia has more than doubled in five…
For first known time in public, Putin calls fighting in Ukraine a ‘war’
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday used the word “war” to refer to the conflict in Ukraine, the first known…