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From Vienna to New York: Nuclear Governance Faces New Tests Ahead of First TPNW Review Conference
- Inter Press Service
VIENNA, September 24 (IPS) - The international nuclear order is facing another test as governments move from an inconclusive review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in New York to renewed disputes over safeguards and nuclear security in Vienna—and toward the first Review Conference of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) later this year.
LIVE: OpenAI and Anthropic brief Security Council amid ‘real and imminent’ threat posed by runaway AI
- UN News
The Security Council has been briefed by some of the world's top AI executives on the huge benefits and huge risks the frontier technology presents. With warnings mounting that the world may be losing its grip on systems built to outthink us, Yoshua Bengi, a recipient of the prestigious Turing Award and one of the godfathers of machine intelligence, said the dangers of AI beyond human control represent an unprecedented threat for countries “that none can contain alone and that does not respect the borders we defend.”
LIVE: Climate change is here - What happens next is still in our hands
- UN News
🔴 LIVE NOW From deadly floods in the Himalayas to wildfires and extreme heat across Europe, 2026 has brought a succession of stark reminders of a changing climate. The task is immediate: Protect people from the impacts already unfolding while rapidly cutting the emissions of harmful gasses driving climate change. World leaders are meeting today to discuss how to turn those priorities into action.
Security Council LIVE: World leaders debate ongoing war in Ukraine
- UN News
Five years of war. Another winter closing in. Today, the Security Council once again debates a path to peace – though any resolution still runs up against the veto of Russia, one of its own permanent members, whose objections have repeatedly stalled any consensus. As world leaders take the floor, the gap between diplomatic process and battlefield reality appears to be stark.
DR Congo Ebola outbreak toll exceeds 3,700 deaths
- UN News
More than 130 days into the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), health experts said on Wednesday that response efforts have been scaled up significantly and “the first encouraging signs of progress” are now being seen.
‘Time is running out’ for Israel-Palestine two-State solution
- UN News
The UN chief warned on Tuesday that the two-State solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict is at risk of collapse amid illegal Israeli settlement expansion and annexation.
Guterres: ‘Cracks have become canyons’ as world faces four tests of power
- UN News
Humanity faces four defining “tests of power” – around war or peace, inequality, climate change and AI – that will determine whether the world moves towards a new era of cooperation or deeper division, the UN chief warned the General Assembly on Tuesday.
Displacement on the rise in Yemen as fighting continues
- UN News
As hostilities worsen in Yemen, more people have been fleeing their homes, further intensifying the humanitarian crisis within the region, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday.
UN condemns attempted Houthi strike on Riyadh as Yemen displacement surges past 130,000
- UN News
The UN has condemned continued cross‑border attacks by Houthi forces against Saudi Arabia, including an attempted strike on the capital Riyadh, as fighting inside Yemen drives one of the country’s fastest displacement surges in years.
‘Nowhere is safe’: UN experts detail Ukraine war’s toll and Russia’s reach beyond its borders
- UN News
UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts on Monday laid out a grim picture of the human cost of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with a spotlight on civilians facing a third wartime winter as well as the intimidation of Russians who have fled abroad.
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