Most Read
Highlight News
World News
Governments at the annual oceans summit reaffirmed commitments to protect key marine ecosystems including the…
1 min read
1 min read
1 min read
1 min read
Latest News
Governments at the annual oceans summit reaffirmed commitments to protect key marine ecosystems including the high seas and coral reefs, but observers said funding barriers and polluting projects are hampering progress on putting them into practice. At the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa this week, some 3,000 delegates – including government officials, scientists, business […]
1 min read
Eva Maria Michelmann vanished in Syria in January as government forces advanced on Kurdish fighters in the northeast. The German government last week said it was working to get her home.
1 min read
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has claimed that the US-Iran peace deal is a "great victory." The group, which is opposed to Israel, has certainly been bolstered by the deal. But what have they really won?
Author Info
Editor Picks
1 min read
1 min read
1 min read
1 min read
1 min read
Features and Events
Governments at the annual oceans summit reaffirmed commitments to protect key marine ecosystems including the high seas and coral reefs, but observers said funding barriers and polluting projects are hampering…
1 min read
Eva Maria Michelmann vanished in Syria in January as government forces advanced on Kurdish fighters in the northeast. The German government last week said it was working to get her…
1 min read
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has claimed that the US-Iran peace deal is a "great victory." The group, which is opposed to Israel, has certainly been bolstered by the deal. But what…
1 min read
Opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira remains under house arrest months after the Guinea-Bissau coup, deepening a political crisis and raising tensions with international partners.
1 min read
In Europe — unlike in Asia — changes to decades of international norms and institutional systems are often interpreted as a loss. However, these changes may also mark the beginning…
1 min read
World News in Brief: Iran in the Human Rights Council, Myanmar election ‘fraud’, migration chief in Cyprus, Mozambique flood update
Disturbing details continued to emerge on Friday about Iran’s State-led crackdown against mass protests, while UN rights chief Volker Türk expressed deep concern that demonstrators could be executed.
1 min read
UN envoy highlights ‘window to advance peace’ in Colombia
The new year provides an opportunity for Colombia to keep advancing towards lasting peace, a decade after a landmark accord that ended more than 50 years of conflict, the UN Special Representative told the Security Council on Friday.
1 min read
Gaza reconstruction talks must not distract from massive needs, say UN aid agencies
Amid reconstruction talks on Gaza linked to President Trump’s just-launched Board of Peace, UN aid agencies insisted on Friday that what Gazans need most is immediate relief from the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe there.
1 min read
Eighty years at the heart of global development
From humanitarian crises and youth unemployment to climate resilience and development financing, many of today’s global challenges pass through a single United Nations body that is quietly turning 80 this year.
1 min read
Washington 21 January 2026 #2
Washington 21 January 2026 #2 gnada Fri, 01/23/2026 – 03:37 Washington Fri, 01/23/2026 – 12:00 21 January 2026 President Trump said: “We hope there’s not going to be further [U.S.] action. But, you know, they were shooting people indiscriminately on the streets”. In warning that the U.S. could strike Iran’s nuclear program again, he said: […]
1 min read
Tehran 21 January 2026
Tehran 21 January 2026 gnada Fri, 01/23/2026 – 03:36 Tehran Fri, 01/23/2026 – 12:00 21 January 2026 Iranian authorities announced that security forces had killed the “ringleader” and detained nearly a dozen members of a “terrorist group” in south-eastern Iran.
1 min read
Tehran 22 January 2026
Tehran 22 January 2026 gnada Fri, 01/23/2026 – 03:35 Tehran Fri, 01/23/2026 – 12:00 22 January 2026 President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote: “The conspiracy of Iran’s ill-wishers transformed the arena of civil and rightful protest into a bloody and violent battleground, resulting in the loss of nearly three thousand lives among the citizens of this land […]
Colombia aims to launch fossil fuel transition platform at first global conference
Colombia is seeking to use this year’s first global conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels to launch a permanent platform that would help a “coalition of the willing” accelerate the shift away from planet-heating coal, oil and gas beyond the UN climate process. The flagship event, due to take place in the Colombian city […]
Why Greenland is indispensable to global climate science
Professor Martin Siegert is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Cornwall) at the University of Exeter and Chair of The UK Arctic and Antarctic Partnerships committee. A 30-minute stroll across New York’s Central Park separates Trump Tower from the American Museum of Natural History. If the US president ever found himself inside the museum he could see the Cape […]
Climate at Davos: Oil execs bemoan “burden” of bank boycotts
US President Donald Trump grabbed the headlines again at the World Economic Forum, launching his “Board of Peace” for Gaza on the final day of the gathering of political and business leaders. But discussions on climate and energy continued below the media radar. Climate Home New has been listening in – here are some of […]