The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says powerful explosions shook the area of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), “abruptly ending a period of relative calm” at the facility.

UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres has decried the breakdown of trust between the global North and South at the ongoing 27th session of the Conference of Parties (COP27) on Climate Change in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.

A spokesman of Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned Washington’s sanctions on Iran’s state TV the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), and its affiliate network Press TV.

The UN has warned that without urgent investment in climate mitigation and adaptation, countries in the Sahel risk decades of armed conflict and displacement, exacerbated by rising temperatures, scarcity of resources, and food insecurity.

Most of the countries in the world continue to closely cooperate with Russia despite sanctions imposed by the West in response to Moscow’s military operation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Wednesday launched a $113.7 million dollars appeal to meet the needs of women and girls who are paying “an unacceptably high price” for unprecedented drought in the Horn of Africa.

The European Union (EU) on Friday said that it has donated 7.25 million U.S. dollars to South Sudan through the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).

CNN on Wednesday reported that research has found that visits to emergency rooms with suicidal thoughts increased sharply among U.S. children and teenagers.