Across Central America’s so-called Dry Corridor, farming families live at the mercy of the rains. In southwestern Honduras, Anastacio Martínez Gómez has spent most of his 73 years learning to work the land. But experience can only take him so far.

14 November 2026

In a quiet hospital corridor in Kyiv, staff and volunteers push carts carrying steaming pots of chicken soup, bread and buckwheat porridge to patients recently evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky, in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region.

13 November 2026

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to spread amid repeated and ongoing deadly attacks on civilians and frontline health workers by armed groups that are obstructing efforts to stop transmission, UN responders said on Friday.

13 November 2026

New guidance has been issued to ensure that people everywhere can obtain credible climate change information from artificial intelligence (AI) and understand how the technology impacts the environment. 

13 November 2026

Winter supplies must enter the Gaza Strip where “lives are at stake”, the UN and partners said in an urgent appeal on Friday, in the wake of deadly rainfall this past weekend. 

13 November 2026

From emotional appeals for climate justice to high-stakes negotiations over billions of dollars, finance dominated discussions at COP31 on Friday. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that even tripling adaptation funding for vulnerable countries would meet less than a third of their needs, as pressure mounted on wealthy nations and major polluters to pay their fair share.

13 November 2026

Nearly nine months after Israeli and US strikes on Iran set off a regional war, the Gulf remains on a knife edge. Iran has all but closed the Strait of Hormuz, which carried a fifth of the world’s oil before the conflict. Attacks on shipping are rising, and efforts to stop a return to full-scale fighting have yet to produce a deal. The Security Council is meeting at Bahrain’s request to discuss the threat to regional and maritime security. Follow live below – and for full meetings coverage year round, go here.

13 November 2026

More than 1,000 people were killed in Haiti during the third quarter of this year, as armed gangs continue to terrorize the population in the capital Port-au-Prince and beyond, the UN team in the island nation, said in its latest human rights report.

12 November 2026

Kenya began a 42-day countdown to the end of its Ebola outbreak on Thursday, a day after the last patient being treated for the disease went home and 11 people were released from quarantine.

12 November 2026

From flooded homes to melting Himalayan glaciers, the human cost of climate change took centre stage at COP31 on Thursday, as world leaders turned their attention to protecting cities and vulnerable communities, while activists challenged governments to do more.

12 November 2026