Guatemala presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalos surges ahead of vote

Guatemala presidential candidate Bernardo Arévalos surges ahead of vote

Comment on this storyComment GUATEMALA CITY — A political outsider who’s vowed to fight corruption surged into the lead in polls going into Sunday’s presidential election in Guatemala — a vote that could mark a turning point for a nation with a faltering democracy. The big question as Guatemalans cast…

Bridging troubled waters amid deluge, drought in the US — Global Issues

Bridging troubled waters amid deluge, drought in the US — Global Issues

A global approach to tackle the ongoing water crisis is needed as vulnerable communities in the United States face historic deluge and drought – issues very much in the spotlight at the forthcoming UN-supported World Water Week. Traditional totems tower over the coastal village of Taholah in Washington state, home…

Russia-Ukraine war news: Zelensky vows response after 7 dead in Chernihiv strike

Russia-Ukraine war news: Zelensky vows response after 7 dead in Chernihiv strike

The northern city of Chernihiv is in mourning after a daytime strike on a theater there killed at least seven people, including a 6-year-old child, and injured 144, according to Ukrainian authorities. The attack on the city — about 80 miles north of the capital, Kyiv, and far from the…

Canada’s British Columbia under state of emergency as Kelowna wildfire rages

Canada’s British Columbia under state of emergency as Kelowna wildfire rages

Comment on this storyComment British Columbia has declared a state of emergency as Canada’s worst wildfire season in modern history tears through swaths of the western province, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. Officials in the province expanded the order late Friday after declaring a state of emergency…

UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation — Global Issues

UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation — Global Issues

Designing ways to fight back against falsehoods that can trigger tensions, violence, or even death, the UN has been monitoring how mis- and disinformation and hate speech can attack health, security, stability as well as progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). “It has become clear that business as usual…

UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation — Global Issues

Guterres condemns assault against UN peacekeepers in Cyprus — Global Issues

Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement issued on behalf of Secretary-General António Guterres that several members of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) had been injured while UN vehicles had also been damaged inside the buffer zone that divides the Turkish Cypriot north and Greek Cypriot south. Security…

UN peacekeepers fight deadly disinformation — Global Issues

Iraqis ‘not abandoned’ after 2003 attack on UN Baghdad — Global Issues

The then New York-based Elpida Rouka had accompanied the Executive Director of the Office of the Iraq Programme on a mission to Baghdad and survived the deadly explosion which killed 22 of her UN colleagues. The 19 August attack is commemorated annually by World Humanitarian Day. “A young 25-year-old barely…