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A street scene in Old Havana, Cuba, featuring weathered buildings with peeling paint and several men walking along the sidewalk.

General Assembly weighs US embargo against Cuba ahead of 34th vote

Commercial airplane flies past the control tower at Los Angeles International Airport under a pale hazy sky.

Why do planes keep circling before landing? UN has a plan to fix it

An aerial view of a large container ship at sea, loaded with stacked shipping containers, moving through the ocean.

Hormuz and Red Sea disruption squeezes food supplies, UN warns

Dr. Neema Rusibamayila Kimambo, WHO Representative in Kenya, gestures while speaking in front of United Nations and Kenyan flags.

Kenya: First group of Ebola contacts ‘graduating’ from quarantine

Inside the Time Machine: Saving Our Audiovisual History

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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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A woman, Mazaher, holds her one-year-old son Nassir, who is suffering from diarrhoea and vomiting, inside a makeshift shelter in Gedaref State, Sudan. The family fled conflict in Kordofan and received medical treatment from a UNICEF-supported mobile clinic.

Civilians in Sudan’s El Obeid trapped between drones and incarceration

Peace and Security Civilians in Sudan’s El Obeid live in constant fear of drone attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and of a wave of arbitrary arrests by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), UN-appointed independent investigators said on Wednesday.

UN General Assembly voting results table for Item 37 (A/81/L.5) showing 130 countries in favour, 17 against, and 25 abstentions on ending the US embargo against Cuba.

Backing for UN call to end Cuba embargo falls to 20-year low

Economic Development The UN General Assembly on Wednesday called for the 34th time for an end to the US economic, commercial and financial embargo on Cuba – but with the weakest backing for the resolution in two decades.

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