UN talks News

Jeffrey Feltman flew to Beijing Saturday after wrapping up a five-day visit to Pyongyang aimed at defusing the crisis, just a week after North Korea said it test-fired a new ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.

In relation to climate change, these invisible thresholds are a point-of-no-return beyond which lies a world that could fall rapidly and seriously out of balance.

A ceasefire to halt nine months of war in Yemen will take hold at noon local time (0900 GMT) on Tuesday, coinciding with the start of UN-backed peace talks in Switzerland, the Saudi-led coalition said on Tuesday.  

Sleep-starved envoys tasked with saving mankind from catastrophic climate change zeroed in Friday on a historic Paris accord, battling through a second all-night session of UN talks in search of a solution.  

The French government has said it will not "give in" to terrorism and insists the long-anticipated conference will go ahead.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius today urged nations that have yet to submit carbon-curbing targets to do so without delay, ahead of UN talks for a climate rescue pact to be inked in Paris in December.