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Aiming to curb pregnancy risks and improve experience, UN launches new prenatal care model

Photo:A health worker immunizes a pregnant woman inside at health center in Aurangabad, India.

Past five years hottest on record, says UN weather agency

Photo:A portion of one of the more than 200 islands of Palau, an island nation in the Pacific Oce

Future of food security depends on irrigation methods that adapt to climate change – UN agency

7 November 2016

South Sudan will face escalating food crisis in 2017, UN agriculture agency warns

Photo:Disruptions to markets are worsening food insecurity in Northern Bahr el Ghazal, South Suda

Nearly one billion travel abroad in first nine months of 2016 – UN agency

Photo:Digue Island, Seychelles.

‘Dramatic’ action needed to cut emissions, slow rise in global temperature – UN Environment report

Photo:World must urgently increase action and ambition to cut another 25 per cent off 2030 emissi

New UN health agency guidelines aim to stop surgical infections and arrest spread of ‘superbugs’

Photo:A relative tends to a three year-old boy as he lies on a cot in the paediatric ward of Al-S

Almost one in seven children breathing heavily toxic air – UNICEF report

Photo: On 24 October 2016 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria, children pass in front of a flame f

UN agricultural agency launches programme to eradicate deadly goat disease

Photo:Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) – also known as sheep and goat plague – has spread to some

Landmark accord agreed on world's largest marine sanctuary for Antarctica's Ross Sea – UN

Photo:In the Ross Sea region of Antarctica, the Adélie penguins have been observed to travel an a