‘Real impact on the ground’ needed as Indonesia backs UN reform
The UN80 Initiative is a system-wide reform effort to make the UN more effective, coherent and better equipped to deliver results…
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Attacks on media workers must end, UN urges
Volker Türk highlighted growing threats to the media in a message ahead of World Press Freedom Day, observed annually on 3 May. “When attacks on…
Gang-controlled streets, shuttered newsrooms: How violence is eroding Haiti’s media
The Caribbean island nation is faced with widespread insecurity as well as deepening poverty. Some 1.4 million people have been…
Central Asia celebrates 20 years as a nuclear-weapon-free zone
The accord, which brought together Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, enshrines the voluntary commitment of these States not to…
Hormuz disruption deepens energy shock through vulnerable regions
Southeast Asia and South Asia were first to be impacted by the most severe energy crisis in a generation, said…
Lebanon strikes deepen crisis as hunger rises and conditions worsen in Gaza
The UN relief coordination office, OCHA, cited reports from Lebanese authorities that at least 13 people were also injured in…
DPRK Korea: Continued militarisation a ‘serious concern’, political affairs chief warns Security Council
It comes after the DPRK – more commonly known as North Korea – launched a new five-year military development plan…
UN rights chief warns of escalating crackdown in Iran amid conflict
Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said he was “appalled that – on top of the already…
Charles III addresses the United States Congress
From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! Wednesday, April 29, 2026 Charles III, the King of the…
From Hormuz to Lebanon, crisis reverberates through trade routes, upending humanitarian networks
Addressing the agency’s governing body in Rome on Tuesday, Director-General Qu Dongyu said the closure of key maritime routes is…