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APP United Nations: For Gaza’s children, the sound of explosions has long replaced the laughter of play. Two years into one of the most relentless wars in the enclave’s history, an entire generation is growing up in fear, displacement,…

AFP/APP Geneva: An alarming streak of exceptional temperatures has put 2025 on course to be among the hottest years ever recorded, the United Nations said Thursday, insisting though that the trend could still be reversed. While this…

AFP/APP United Nations: Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest population — about 900 million people — are directly exposed to climate hazards intensified by global warming, bearing what the United Nations has described as a “double…

AFP/APP Geneva: Climate change is spurring increasingly erratic and extreme swings between deluge and drought globally, with cascading repercussions for societies, the United Nations warned on Thursday. The UN’s World Meteorological…

News Desk Islamabad: The United Nations in Pakistan, with support from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), has launched the Pakistan United Nations Network on Migration (UNNM) to enhance migration governance, curb human…

News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan has categorically rejected the Israeli parliament’s recent move claiming sovereignty over the occupied West Bank, denouncing it as a provocative and illegal act that violates international law and the rights…

News Desk Paris/New York: French President Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that France will officially recognise the State of Palestine during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, marking a significant…

AFP/APP The Hague: The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters' responsibilities towards the countries suffering most. The…

News Desk  Islamabad: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has issued a stark warning following the United States’ recent military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, calling the development a “dangerous escalation” that…

WAM/APP New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the loss of life and injuries suffered by Palestinians in Gaza who are seeking food and humanitarian assistance, describing the situation as "utterly…