United Nations

We have the tools to save the planet from climate change. Politics is getting in the way, new IPCC report says

By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas

The report itself was delayed by negotiations over language and key issues, illustrating how each nation's priorities can thwart timely progress.

WATCH: IPCC warns Earth is 'firmly on track toward an unlivable world'

By Frank Jordans, Seth Borenstein, Associated Press

A new report from the UN's top body of climate scientists is warning that temperatures will go beyond a key danger point unless countries worldwide cut greenhouse emissions faster than they are currently committed to doing.

Former UN prosecutor calls for global arrest warrant for Putin

By Associated Press

The Swiss lawyer who oversaw U.N. investigations in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia said there were clear war crimes being committed in Ukraine.

U.N. seeks record $4.4 billion for Afghans struggling under Taliban

By Jamey Keaten, Kathy Gannon, Associated Press

The head of the United Nations says nearly all Afghans don't have enough to eat and some have resorted to "selling their children and their body parts" to get money for food.

U.N. blames Russia for humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, urges aid

By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press

The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved a resolution blaming Russia for humanitarian crisis in Ukraine and urging an immediate cease-fire and protection for millions of civilians and the homes, schools and hospitals critical to their survival.

U.N. aims to give every person on Earth access to natural disaster early warning systems

By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

The chief of the United Nations announced a project Wednesday to put every person on Earth in range of early weather-warning systems within five years.

U.N. food agency official alarmed by Afghanistan food, fuel prices

By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press

Afghanistan has been sinking deeper into poverty and economic crisis since the Taliban takeover and as many as 95 percent of the country's 38 million people don't have enough to eat or money to buy the food.

United Nations says 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Ukraine

By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

The estimates from the International Organization for Migration suggests Ukraine is fast on course in just three weeks toward the levels of displacement from Syria’s devastating war, which has driven about 13 million people from their homes both in the…

The UN court orders Russia to cease hostilities in Ukraine

By Molly Quell, Associated Press

The United Nations’ top court has ordered Russia to stop hostilities in Ukraine, granting measures requested by Kyiv, although many are skeptical that Russia will comply.

U.N. raises $1.3 billion for Yemen, less than a third requested, in effort shadowed by Ukraine war

By Samy Magdy, Associated Press

The U.N. had set out to raise $4.27 billion, but ended up on Wednesday with less than a third of that for the world's worst humanitarian disaster and the Arab world's poorest country.