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Landmark climate change case opens at top UN court

Landmark climate change case opens at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas

The top United Nations court took up the largest case in its history on Monday, when it opened two weeks of hearings into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change and help vulnerable nations fight its devastating impact.

Daily Journal · 3h

Landmark climate case to open at top UN court

The United Nations' top court will start unprecedented hearings on Monday aimed at setting legal guidelines for how countries should protect the planet against climate change and help vulnerable natio

Yahoo · 4h

UN to open landmark climate change court case in The Hague

The United Nations' top court will open hearings on Monday into what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat climate change.View on euronews

Voice of America · 11h

Landmark climate change case to open at top UN court

Hearings to focus on what countries worldwide are legally required to do to combat the phenomenon and help vulnerable nations fight its devastating impact

Plastic Pollution, United Nations

The New York Times · 15h

Nations Fail to Reach an Agreement on Plastic Pollution

Diplomats at a United Nations conference in Busan, South Korea, failed to reach agreement on the world’s first treaty to tackle plastic pollution on Sunday. They said they would reconvene in future months to try again.

Barron's · 1d

Nations Warn Of Deadlock At Landmark Plastic Pollution Talks

Diplomats warned Saturday that a majority of countries could walk away from talks on the world's first plastic pollution agreement if a handful of delegations continue resisting calls to compromise.

The Washington Post · 14m

Nations fail to reach agreement in U.N. plastic talks

U.N. treaty talks aimed at reducing plastic pollution broke down on Dec. 2, after negotiators from more than 170 countries remained deadlocked over how to curb plastic waste.

UN halts aid through Gaza's main crossing

UPI News on MSN · 9h

Security concerns prompt United Nations to suspend food aid into Gaza

Security concerns have prompted the U.N. agency providing aid to Palestinians to suspend deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza, officials announced Sunday.

BBC on MSN · 16h

UN suspends aid deliveries through main Gaza crossing

The UN agency providing aid to Palestinians has said it is suspending deliveries through the main crossing between Israel and Gaza because of security concerns. The head of Unrwa, Philippe Lazzarini,

HuffPost · 21h

UNRWA Says It's Halting Aid Deliveries Through Main Gaza Crossing

The decision could worsen the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as the cold, rainy winter sets in as hundreds of thousands of people living in squalid tent camps rely on food aid.

Trump threatens Brics nations

New York Post on MSN · 9h

Trump threatens 100% tariffs on China and Russia if BRICS group of nations issues new currency

US President-elect Donald Trump threatened to levy 100% tariffs on BRICS — a China- and Russia-led group of nations with emerging economies — if the countries decide to issue their own

The Washington Post · 22h

Trump threatens 100% tariff on the BRIC bloc of nations if they act to undermine US dollar

President-elect Donald Trump is threatening 100% tariffs against a bloc of nine nations if they act to undermine the U.S. dollar

USA TODAY on MSN · 1d

Trump threatens BRIC nations with 100% tariff if they 'move away' from US dollar

The president-elect's threat comes just days after he threatened big tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China. Experts warn of higher prices.

New York Sun1d

Allegations of Abuse, Concerns Over Funding Plague United Nations Peacekeeping Missions

Captured Hezbollah fighters testify that the terrorist group paid money to the peacekeepers to use their bases to conduct ...

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United Nations report reveals disturbing increase in extreme violence against women

One woman or girl is killed every 10 minutes. This comes from the latest report from the United Nations, revealing 60% of all ...

In Haiti, a Grim Barometer: Even United Nations Workers Are Fleeing

A surge in gang violence over the past two weeks has led international aid organizations to rethink their staff levels in ...

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United Nations to establish an initiative to research and act against “climate misinformation”

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that “climate disinformation” would encompass a wide range of perspectives it ...

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Controversial United Nations Treaty May Criminalize Cybersecurity Teams

Experts warn that a well-intentioned United Nations Cybercrime Treaty could backfire, criminalizing security experts and ...

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A landmark climate change case will open at the top UN court as island nations fear rising seas

The top UN court will take up the largest case in its history on Monday. It opens two weeks of hearings into what countries ...

United Nations reduced to a theatre of virtue-signalling against Israel

The United Nations is sometimes ridiculed as a talking shop, but the words it speaks carry grave consequences.

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Former high-level United Nations officials to launch 'DOGE-UN' to highlight agency inefficiencies

A group of former United Nations officials fed up with its inefficiency launching "DOGE-UN," an investigative effort that ...

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Landmark climate change case opens at top UN court

Plastic Pollution, United Nations

UN halts aid through Gaza's main crossing

Trump threatens Brics nations

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