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Second UN failure to agree on a Plastics Treaty

Environment | 15/08/2025

Protest against the latest draft agreement for the Global Plastics Treaty, at the UN summit in Geneva, in August 2025.

All the plastic waste on the planet would fill 200 million trucks.

Environment | 04/08/2025

Plastic waste in a mangrove area in Panama City in a file image.

Israel announces a "tactical pause" in Gaza to allow entry of humanitarian aid

International | 28/07/2025

Displaced Palestinians attempt to take bags of flour from a humanitarian aid truck near a food distribution point in Zikim, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The United States withdraws from UNESCO

International | 22/07/2025

UNESCO headquarters in Paris.

Houthis sink a commercial ship in the Red Sea and kidnap at least six crew members

International | 10/07/2025

Four dead and fifteen missing in the sinking of a ship in the Red Sea due to a Houthi attack.

Who is King Mswati III, the last absolute monarch of Africa who took center stage in Seville?

International | 03/07/2025

Photo of Prisoner Mswati III of Eswatini, formerly Swaziland, and his ninth wife, in Seville with the King and Queen of Spain during the UN summit on international cooperation for development.

Franc Cortada: "The Seville summit was a missed opportunity to curb the billionaire oligarchy."

International | 03/07/2025

Franco Cortada, general director of Oxfam Intermon.

UN 2030 goals are "in danger," warns Guterres

International | 30/06/2025

4th International Conference on Financing for Development, in Seville in June 2025.

The UN Security Council convened urgently at Iran's request

International | 22/06/2025

United Nations Security Council meeting on the conflict between Israel and Lebanon

Protecting international waters will not stop the extraction of oil or minerals from the seabed.

Environment | 13/06/2025

Stock image of the seabed.

Global disappointment at COP29: rich countries force a downward agreement

Science and Technology | 13/06/2025

Climate finance is the key theme of the UN climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, COP29.

Sebastià Alzamora

The fright and the crying

Opinion | 29/05/2025

The first sacks of flour enter the Gaza Strip and some bakeries reopen.

International | 22/05/2025

Palestinian workers make bread at a bakery that has reopened after being closed due to a flour shortage, in Deir Al Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

The Spanish government ignores the Catalan issue in the periodic review before the UN

Politics | 30/04/2025

Image of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The great highway that destroys the Amazon to connect the city that will host COP30

Environment | 24/03/2025

A cloud of dust obscures visibility on the Trans-Amazonian Highway, a route begun in 1972 with the goal of crossing the Brazilian Amazon, but never completed.

Raping one-year-olds: the harshest face of war in Sudan

International | 21/03/2025

A baby in a temporary care centre for abandoned children in Sudan

UN agrees in extremis to mobilize $200 billion to protect nature

Environment | 19/03/2025

Literature and nature: a promiscuous relationship Five new releases in which nature is the protagonist

Arab countries approve Egyptian five-year, $50 billion plan to rebuild Gaza

International | 04/03/2025

Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, destroyed.

Arab countries discuss five-year, $50 billion plan to rebuild Gaza

Misc | 04/03/2025

Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, destroyed.

Gonzalo Delacámara: "There are more people in the world with a cell phone than with a toilet"

Environment | 02/03/2025

Gonzalo de la Camara