Countries spending billions on financial rescue packages should spend a few extra “peanuts” to fund aid programs for those worst hit by the global financial...

About 100 people are missing and feared drowned off the shores of Yemen after their smugglers forced them overboard in the treacherous Gulf of Aden waters, Yemeni...

The U.N. refugee agency says 100 migrants are feared drowned after being forced overboard by smugglers in the Gulf of Aden.

The U.N. health agency says it is investigating a mystery disease that killed three people in the South African city of Johannesburg.

Moscow on Thursday accused NATO and the United Nations of secretly forging an agreement that tightens their cooperation without informing Russia, a U.N. Security...

North Korea moved closer Thursday to relaunching its nuclear arms program, announcing that it wants to reactivate the facility that produced its atomic bomb and banning...

The financial turmoil rippling across the globe will set back efforts to fight climate change, drying up capital that could help poorer countries upgrade to clean...

The U.N. health agency says at least three in four mental health patients in developing countries receive no treatment.

An independent panel said Wednesday that 10 U.N. officials should face reprimands or disciplinary action because of security lapses ahead of the deadly bombing of U.N....

The U.N Security Council will likely keep peacekeeping troops in Haiti for another year, but will not heed Haitians’ calls to shift their focus to developing the...

The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday approved a resolution to ask the International Court of Justice to provide a formal opinion on the legality of Kosovo’s...

U.N. appeals judges have confirmed the 35-year sentence handed to a former Croatian Serb leader for his role in a deadly campaign of ethnic cleansing in Croatia.

The U.N.’s new human rights chief said Wednesday she would press governments worldwide to ensure they followed international rights standards while tackling...

Laura Bush decried illiteracy among women Tuesday, saying that midway through a decade-long U.N. education push nations have failed to make a dent the numbers unable to...

The beleaguered peacekeeping force in Sudan’s violence-wracked Darfur region cannot be significantly strengthened this year because of increased dangers, the U.N....

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling on all countries with a stake in maritime safety off Somalia to send naval ships and military...

The U.N. humanitarian office says aid workers in eastern Chad have been attacked by bandits over 120 times this year, hampering efforts to bring food and other relief...

The U.N. refugee agency says at least 5,000 people have fled violence in northeastern Congo and sought shelter in neighboring Sudan.

A U.N. agency on Tuesday called for an urgent review of agriculture and biofuel subsidies and trade barriers, saying their removal would increase opportunities for...

The U.N. food agency is resuming free breakfasts for hundreds of thousands of poor Cambodian schoolchildren after securing new funds for a program suspended due to high...