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Nations Fail to Reach an Agreement on Plastic Pollution

Diplomats at a United Nations conference in Busan, South Korea, failed to reach agreement on the world’s first treaty to tackle plastic pollution on Sunday. They said they would reconvene in future months to try again.

The Washington Post on MSN · 17h

Nations fail to deliver U.N. treaty on cleaning up plastic pollution

Delegates from close to 200 countries huddled for a week of marathon negotiations but came up short on delivering a treaty.

U.S. News & World Report · 19h

Negotiators Fail to Reach an Agreement on a Plastic Pollution Treaty. Talks to Resume Next Year

Negotiators working on a treaty to address the global crisis of plastic pollution won’t reach an agreement in South Korea and are making plans to resume the talks next year

UN halts aid through Gaza's main crossing

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Security concerns prompt United Nations to suspend food aid into Gaza

Security concerns have prompted the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinians to suspend deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza, officials announced Sunday.

BBC on MSN · 20h

UN suspends aid deliveries through main Gaza crossing

The UN agency providing aid to Palestinians has said it is suspending deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza because of security concerns. The head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini,

HuffPost · 1d

UNRWA Says It's Halting Aid Deliveries Through Main Gaza Crossing

The decision could worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as the cold, rainy winter sets in as hundreds of thousands of people living in squalid tent camps rely on food aid.

Landmark climate change case opens at top UN court

The Associated Press on MSN · 1d

A landmark climate change case will open at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas

The top UN court will take up the largest case in its history on Monday. It opens two weeks of hearings into what countries are legally required to do to combat climate change.

Firstpost · 2h

Big climate change case in top UN court: Are wealthy nations legally bound to help vulnerable ones?

Any decision by the court would be non-binding advice and couldn’t directly force wealthy nations into action to help struggling countries. Yet it would be more than just a powerful symbol since it could be the basis for other legal actions,

Reuters on MSN · 2h

Vanuatu urges World Court to recognise climate change harms

By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE -The small island nation of Vanuatu on Monday urged a strong response from the United Nations' top court when they issue an advisory opinion on the legal obligation of countries to fight climate change and the consequences of their contributing to global warming.

Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on BRICS Nations

New York Post on MSN · 13h

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on China and Russia if BRICS group of nations issues new currency

US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to levy 100% tariffs on BRICS — a China- and Russia-led group of nations with emerging economies — if the countries decide to issue their own

U.S. News & World Report · 2h

Kremlin Says Trump Threat to BRICS Nations Against Replacing US Dollar Will Backfire

Officials, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, are seen through television cameras during a plenary session in the outreach/BRICS Plus format at the BRICS summit in Kazan,

Reuters on MSN · 1h

Kremlin says Trump threat to BRICS nations over US dollar will backfire

The Kremlin said on Monday that any U.S. attempt to compel countries to use the dollar would backfire after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatened to impose tariffs on BRICS countries if they created their own currency.

Former high-level United Nations officials to launch 'DOGE-UN' to highlight agency inefficiencies

A group of former United Nations officials fed up with its inefficiency launching "DOGE-UN," an investigative effort that ...

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Allegations of Abuse, Concerns Over Funding Plague United Nations Peacekeeping Missions

Captured Hezbollah fighters testify that the terrorist group paid money to the peacekeepers to use their bases to conduct ...

United Nations reduced to a theatre of virtue-signalling against Israel

The United Nations is sometimes ridiculed as a talking shop, but the words it speaks carry grave consequences.

In Haiti, a Grim Barometer: Even United Nations Workers Are Fleeing

A surge in gang violence over the past two weeks has led international aid organizations to rethink their staff levels in ...

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United Nations to establish an initiative to research and act against “climate misinformation”

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that “climate disinformation” would encompass a wide range of perspectives it ...

In South Korea, nations meet in final round to address global plastic crisis

Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis of plastic pollution ...

Landmark climate change case opens at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas

The top United Nations court has taken up the largest case in its history, hearing the plight of several small island nations ...

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United Nations report reveals disturbing increase in extreme violence against women

One woman or girl is killed every 10 minutes. This comes from the latest report from the United Nations, revealing 60% of all ...

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Plastic Pollution, United Nations

UN halts aid through Gaza's main crossing

Landmark climate change case opens at top UN court

Trump Threatens 100% Tariffs on BRICS Nations

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