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The Secretary-General's nameplate on a wooden desk in the UN Security Council Chamber, with blue chairs and a large mural in the background.

Gender, geography and powerbroking in play in race for next UN chief

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Talk & Action Trailer | Climate News, Science and the Way Forward at COP31

Visitors walk and sit on the stone plaza of Registan in Uzbekistan, framed by tiled madrasahs, minarets, and a turquoise dome under a clear blue sky.

Samarkand: A ‘living museum’ on the Silk Road grapples with a tourism boom

A traffic warden in a light blue uniform and beret directs traffic on a street in Beledweyne, with market stalls under umbrellas and a red taxi nearby.

Somalia looks to the future as the UN's political mission closes

Inside the Time Machine: Saving Our Audiovisual History

Before the UN: The Forgotten Story of UNRRA

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What Stops Countries from Getting Nuclear Weapons?

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Aerial view of Manhattan's East Side showing the East Side Coastal Resiliency project with a sports field, highway, Queensboro Bridge, and East River skyline.

Higher Ground: How New York is raising a park to hold back the sea

Climate and Environment On 29 October 2012, Hurricane Sandy slammed into New York City, unleashing a devastating storm surge that flooded homes, subways and tunnels, knocked out power and sparked deadly fires.

An Afghan woman wearing headphones speaks into a microphone in a radio studio, viewed through a glass window.

Protecting the storytellers: Women journalists on the frontline of conflict

A white woman with shoulder-length brown hair works at a desk in an archival media lab, handling small equipment near a large white film reel, with computer monitors and shelves in the background.

Inside the New York ‘time machine’ racing to save a century of sound and film

Green rice paddies bordered by brown irrigation canals under a partly cloudy sky in Ca Mau, Mekong Delta.

In the Mekong Delta, a push to grow food with saltwater

A collection of open medicine bottles containing various pills and capsules, alongside empty blister packs and plastic bags, all placed together on a surface.

When streets become pharmacies: Booming illicit markets in Central Africa

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks from a podium in the United Nations General Assembly Hall during the opening of the eighty-first session, with delegates seated and his image on two screens.

110 leaders, 18,000 delegates: Inside the UN’s busiest week of high-stakes diplomacy

The busiest week of the year at the UN got underway at the organization’s New York Headquarters on Monday.

Reaching the most vulnerable: Frontline teams support earthquake-hit Venezuela

Photo by UNOCHA/Veronique Durroux showing search and rescue operations near the earthquake ground zero in La Guaira, Venezuela, on June 29, 2026. A CAT backhoe loader is positioned in the foreground amidst rubble, with several rescue workers visible on top of the collapsed building structure.

UN ramps up ceasefire support to hungry and war-weary Gazans

A smiling young girl, Shereen, carries a large pot of rice and chickpeas in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, while other children and adults stand near tents in the background.

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Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaking at the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

‘They deserve to know the truth’: UN rights chief demands probe into staffer’s death in Houthi custody

Peace and Security The UN human rights chief on Saturday demanded an independent investigation into the death of a Yemeni colleague held by the Houthis for more than two years, whose family learned of his death only weeks after it happened.

Samarkand: A ‘living museum’ on the Silk Road grapples with a tourism boom

Culture and Education As the sun sets over Samarkand’s majestic Registan, its last rays glint across the turquoise mosaics. Dusk settles on the ancient square where great trade routes have crossed for centuries.

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