Beverages like sugary drinks and alcohol are too accessible and cost too little in most of the world – helping fuel obesity, diabetes, cancer and injury, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166754
As anti-government demonstrations continue across Iran, the UN human rights chief said on Tuesday that he was horrified at the mounting violence directed by security forces against protestors, with reports of hundreds killed and thousands arrested.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166752
Airstrikes, drone attacks and hypothermia continue in Gaza despite the ceasefire, with more than 100 youngsters killed since early October, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166750
Amid ongoing and intensifying Russian attacks across Ukraine, the UN on Tuesday launched a $2.3 billion humanitarian appeal for 2026 to support 4.1 million of the country’s most vulnerable people.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166749
Ukraine has entered the new year under intensifying and deadly Russian attacks which have crippled energy systems and left millions without heating, electricity or water amid freezing temperatures, senior UN officials told the Security Council on Monday.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166748
The humanitarian crisis across the Gaza Strip remains extremely serious, with harsh winter weather threatening to reverse recent gains in aid delivery, the United Nations said on Monday.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166747
Public hearings opened on Monday at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in a landmark case brought by the Gambia against Myanmar, alleging violations of the Genocide Convention over the military’s treatment of the Rohingya minority.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166746
More than 100 political prisoners have been released in Venezuela, the Government announced on Monday, just over a week after the seizure and rendition of President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas by the United States.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166745
The UN Security Council is meeting in emergency session in New York over Russia’s ongoing deadly missile and drone strikes targeting Ukrainian civilians and energy infrastructure, as frigid winter conditions grip the war-torn country. Millions have been deprived of electricity, heating and water.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166743
The head of the UN’s emergency food agency has urged world leaders on Monday to end “man-made famines” and conflicts that “drive hunger and desperation”. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166744
Top finance experts are meeting at UN Geneva this week to push for a radical shake up in the way economic growth is gauged, in response to concerns that GDP measurements provide little insight about progress on key sustainability targets that are vital to our survival.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166740
The UN Secretary-General is shocked by reports of violence and excessive use of force by Iranian authorities against protesters across the country, urging restraint and the immediate restoration of communications as unrest enters its third week.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166739
They ask heartbreaking questions: “What will happen to us?” “Is it true they will deport us?” “We don’t want to go back. How can I live in Afghanistan?” The words of Sumaiya, who staffs a helpline for refugees and asylum-seekers living in Pakistan but facing the eventuality of having to return to neighbouring Afghanistan.https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2026/01/1166741
Several of the past year’s films center on confused, bumbling protagonists — surrounded by women who are anything but.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/magazine/movies-hapless-men-hypercompetent-women.html
Trump wants Greenland? Its previous colonizer has some thoughts.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/opinion/greenland-denmark-trump-history.html
In the MAGA imagination, white women are supposed to be helpmeets, not harpies.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/opinion/republicans-ice-white-women.html
Federal officials working on the new dietary guidelines had considered limiting men to one drink daily. The final advice was only that everyone should drink less.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/health/alcohol-men-women.html
The New York City comptroller, Mark Levine, said that poor budgeting practices by the previous mayor, Eric Adams, had left the city with looming deficits.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/nyregion/budget-deficit-nyc.html
Prosecutors want jury selection to start in January 2027. That would be a quarter century after the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/sept-11-attacks-trial.html
Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, this week tapped a groundswell of support that has been years in the making.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/us/politics/powell-trump-investigation.html