Conflict at the Canal Panama complains to UN over Trump canal threat Today 10:10 Panama rejected President Donald Trump's pledge that the United States would be "taking back" the Panama Canal, saying the key interoceanic waterway would remain under its control.
ENVIRONMENT Paris climate agreement goals 'in great peril,' warns UN meteorologist 11-11-2024 12:11 Paris climate agreement’s goals are in danger, warns top meteorologist Celeste Saulo; Rapidly rising temperatures are placing the planet in danger, wreaking havoc on communities and economies around the world, warns UN agency.
ENVIRONMENT Big guns descend on Cali for final push in UN biodiversity talks 29-10-2024 15:45 Heads of state, ministers and UN Secretary General António Guterres arrived in Cali Tuesday hoping to add impetus to grinding talks on ways to save nature from human destruction.
FOREIGN POLICY & DIPLOMACY ‘Totalitarian’: Argentina votes against UN ‘Pact for the Future’ 23-09-2024 19:26 Milei administration officials voice rejection of non-binding UN masterplan to address 21st-century challenges; Only seven out of 193 states vote against, including Argentina, Russia, North Korea and Venezuela.
TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY Lula seeks to lead push for global AI rules during Brazil’s G20 23-09-2024 17:33 As the planet’s largest economies struggle to forge consensus on the future of artificial intelligence, Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wants to ensure the developing world isn’t left out of the debate.
CLIMATE CHANGE United Nations issues urgent warning on climate 20-03-2023 18:31 UN estimates will cross the key 1.5-degree Celsius global warming limit in about a decade
DEBT DEBATE UN development chief sounds alarm over debt distress 06-03-2023 12:23 A top United NAtions official has warned that "urgent" measures are needed to help 52 countries, including Argentina, facing debt repayment problems that put some at risk of default.
ENVIRONMENT Rising seas eating away at Honduran fishing village 01-03-2023 10:07 Inhabitants of Cedeño and other fishing villages on the Gulf of Fonseca – shared by Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua – are at the forefront of one of the more visible symptoms of climate change: sea level rise caused by melting glaciers and ice sheets.