The European Union alongside the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have organised a high-level International Solidarity Conference in Brussels for 28-29 October to discuss having a more concerted and robust policy for Venezuelan refugees and migrants.

The world must dramatically rethink its economic model in order to tackle growing environmental stress, inequality and development challenges, the UN said Wednesday, calling for a "Global Green New Deal". In a fresh report, the UN trade, investment and development agency (UNCTAD) called for countries to join forces and enable trillions of dollars in public sector investments to help reboot the global economy and counter climate change.

China and the United States are currently deadlocked over an UN resolution to extend a mission in Afghanistan, with Beijing signaling it will cast a veto because there is no reference to its Belt and Road project, diplomats told Reuters on Monday.

Russia and China have asked the United Nations' Security Council to meet on Thursday over "statements by US officials on their plans to develop and deploy medium-range missiles". Moscow and Beijing want to convene the 15-member council under the agenda item "threats to international peace and security", a request obtained by Reuters news agency shows.

Libya’s internationally recognized government, which is facing a campaign by eastern troops to take the capital, has accepted a United Nations proposal for a ceasefire during the Eid al-Adha religious holiday, Reuters said, citing a statement released on Friday.

Members of the United Nations on Wednesday signed the Singapore Convention on Mediation, an agreement it hopes will make it easier to settle cross-border commercial disputes and stabilise trade relationships, at a time when trade tensions between world's two biggest economies - the US and China - are escalating.

The UN’s nuclear watchdog says Iran is still abiding by the terms of a 2015 deal that aims to keep Tehran from building atomic weapons in exchange for economic incentives, despite growing pressure from newly-reimposed US sanctions. In a confidential quarterly report distributed to Member States on Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) estimated that the Islamic Republic had kept to the caps placed on its uranium enrichment levels and enriched uranium stocks as part of the 2015 accord, signed in Austria's capital, Vienna.

After two weeks of tense negotiations in Katowice, Poland, UN envoys from almost 200 countries reached an agreement Saturday on universal, transparent rules that will govern efforts to rein in greenhouse gas pollution worldwide and curb climate change.

Kosovo's parliament on Friday approved three draft laws on the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) expanding its competences and creating a legal base for its transformation into a regular army with 5,000 troop, plus 3,000 reservists. The three draft laws concern one directly on the Kosovo Security Force, KSF, another on a Ministry of Defence and a third on service in the KSF.

Leaders from more than 150 countries on Monday have agreed upon the UN global pact that sets a roadmap "to prevent suffering and chaos" for global migration, despite opposition and several withdrawals, including from the US and a third of the EU Member States. This happened during the  intergovernmental conference in Marrakech, Morocco. The UN General Assembly is now set to adopt a resolution formally endorsing the deal on December 19 in New York.