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18 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: September 24, 2026.
WatchMasoud Pezeshkian held up photos of dead schoolchildren and called out Trump by name, a day after Trump told the same hall he might 'annihilate' the Islamic Republic.
Ben Saul's briefing note, released by the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday, calls the year-old campaign 'serial extrajudicial killings' and says drug cartels have not staged the armed attack that would trigger a right of self-defense. The White House has not responded.
WatchThe president says he will make up his mind after meeting six Gulf leaders in New York on Tuesday. Brent is near $104, up from $88 three weeks ago, and central banks in Tokyo, Washington and Frankfurt all raised rates this week to fight the oil shock.
WatchThe fact-finding mission says two Feb. 28 strikes killed at least 178 civilians, most of them schoolgirls. It goes to the Human Rights Council Monday. Washington hasn't answered its June requests for a meeting.
The UN says about 400 of the roughly 2,000 damaged buildings that displaced families are living in across Gaza are at risk of falling down. Egypt sent heavy machinery; Gaza's civil defense director said 'we are still hearing voices from under the rubble.'
The General Assembly endorsed the Equal Earth projection, which shows Africa 14 times larger than Greenland instead of about the same size. The resolution binds nobody.
Tropical Pacific waters are running 1.5 to 2.6 degrees Celsius above normal. Antonio Guterres says the event is being 'supersized before our eyes.'
A UN fact-finding mission reported Thursday that foreign recruiters, logistics firms and weapons suppliers running through Colombia and the UAE have transformed the Rapid Support Forces into a drone army. It found conduct in El-Fasher displaying what it called hallmarks of genocide.
The U.N. chief met interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the presidential palace and urged the world to "spare no effort" in backing Syria's transition.
It is the first time in the International Criminal Court's 24-year history that member states have removed a sitting chief prosecutor. Khan denies all wrongdoing and says he will challenge the decision.
A new United Nations report finds 309 million people in Africa went hungry last year even as global hunger eased for a third straight year, blaming conflict and climate shocks.
U.N. agencies say two overcrowded vessels that set out from Myanmar's Rakhine state in late June are believed to have sunk, in what could be one of the deadliest maritime disasters of the refugee crisis.
Russian long-range strikes and swarms of short-range drones killed at least 293 civilians and wounded nearly 2,000, surpassing a grim record set only a month earlier.
Human rights chief Volker Turk reported 1,100 wounded and dozens kidnapped since January as armed groups push beyond Port-au-Prince into the countryside.
The May 19 'sensitive but unclassified' cable directs the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to pressure Palestinian officials to abandon one of the 21 vice-president slots at the next U.N. session, citing Mansour's record of accusing Israel of genocide and warning of possible visa revocation in what former diplomats call an unprecedented threat.
B'Tselem says Israeli authorities have issued sweeping demolition orders covering the entire al-Bustan section of the 20,000-resident Palestinian neighborhood since the war with Iran began, with U.N. experts warning the campaign 'amounts to ethnic cleansing.'
The wealthy businessman spent 26 years evading arrest before being captured in France in 2020, but never stood trial due to dementia.
Strike on facility housing 2,000 patients draws UN condemnation and calls for immediate ceasefire