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UN urges restraint as US strikes in southern Caribbean escalate tensions with Venezuela

·October 12, 2025·2 min read

Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča said the US operations, conducted between 2 September and 3 October, have heightened tensions in the region and drawn sharp criticism from Caracas. “Venezuelan authorities have announced that they remain on high alert since the United States military deployments...

Guterres urges countries to ‘seize this historic opportunity’ as renewable energy use grows

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·October 8, 2025·2 min read

The latest push follows the release of two reports on Tuesday which affirmed that the so-called “renewables revolution” is accelerating at unprecedented rates. For the first time ever, renewable energy has generated more power than coal, according to new analysis by Ember, a global think tank working to speed up...

DR Congo: UN envoy urges people eager for peace in the east ‘not to lose hope’

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·October 5, 2025·3 min read

Bintou Keita issued the message in an exclusive interview with UN News just a few days after briefing the Security Council on the situation in eastern DRC, expressing “compassion and empathy” for the long-suffering population. “We know that it is very difficult, and it is a daily difficulty,” she said,...

‘Do not submit to a world ruled by brute force,’ Denmark urges world leaders at UN

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·September 30, 2025·1 min read

She stressed that the UN is “as essential as ever,” even as conflicts intensify, extreme poverty grows, and respect for international law and norms erodes. Since 1945, she noted, “more than a billion people have been lifted out of poverty,” life expectancy and living standards have risen, and a global...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Take ‘immediate steps’ to de-escalate tensions over Russia-Ukraine war, urges Jenča

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·September 23, 2025·1 min read

The Security Council met in New York in emergency session on Monday after planes from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intercepted three Russia jets in Estonian airspace last Friday, according to the Estonian Government. Referencing the intensifying attacks by Russia on Ukraine and reported casualties inside Russia, “the world...

Ahead of high-stakes General Assembly week, Guterres urges world leaders to ‘get serious – and deliver’

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·September 17, 2025·2 min read

Speaking at a press conference at the UN Headquarters on Tuesday in New York, he warned that global divisions, conflicts and crises have taken the very principle of international cooperation to its most fragile inflection point in decades. “Some call it the World Cup of diplomacy,” Mr. Guterres said. “But...

UN urges renewed solidarity eight years after forced exodus of Rohingya

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·August 26, 2025·1 min read

More than 700,000 of them fled to neighbouring Bangladesh after armed attacks by a militant group against Myanmar security forces sparked a brutal military crackdown that began on 25 August 2017. They joined thousands of others who had escaped earlier waves of violence and discrimination now living in refugee camps...

UNHCR urges Pakistan to stop forced returns of Afghan refugees

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·August 6, 2025·1 min read

He expressed particular concern over the plight of women and girls sent back to Afghanistan, which has been under Taliban rule for four years. On 31 July, Pakistan confirmed that Afghan refugees would be deported under an ongoing ‘Illegal Foreigners Repatriation Plan’. UNHCR has received reports of arrests and detention...

UN urges MPs to deliver on development promises for 600 million in landlocked nations

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·August 4, 2025·2 min read

Speaking at Monday’s Parliamentary Forum of the Third UN Conference on LLDCs, senior UN leaders stressed that political will, matched with national legislative action, is essential if a new decade-long development plan is to make a real difference. There are 32 such countries globally, home to over half a billion...

UN official decries deadly Ukraine strikes, urges return to diplomacy

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·August 3, 2025·2 min read

Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, Miroslav Jenča, Assistant Secretary-General for Europe in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), renewed the call for an immediate ceasefire and a return to diplomacy to end the devastation. “Ukrainian people have endured nearly three-and-a-half years of unimaginable horrors, death, devastation and...

Angola protests: UN urges restraint, investigations into deaths

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·August 1, 2025·1 min read

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Thursday urged Angolan authorities to conduct prompt, thorough and independent investigations into the deaths as well as the reported use of excessive force during the demonstrations. “Unverified footage suggests that security forces used live ammunition and tear gas...

UN urges restraint as Thailand-Cambodia clashes displace thousands; Security Council meets

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·July 28, 2025·1 min read

The clashes, which began on 24 July, reportedly involved exchanges of gunfire, artillery shelling and rocket fire, with Thailand having conducted airstrikes inside Cambodian territory. UN humanitarian officials confirmed civilian casualties, including children. More than 131,000 people in Thailand and over 4,000 in Cambodia have been displaced, according to relief...