February 7, 2026 UN News Service In a statement issued as the treaty expired at midnight GMT Thursday, he said the world was entering uncharted territory, with no remaining legally binding constraints on the nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Russia – the two countries that together hold the vast majority of the world’s nuclear weapons. “ For the first time in more than half a century, we face a world without any binding limits on the strategic nuclear arsenals ” o

February 7, 2026 UNHCR A series of new Israeli operations and settlement plans in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, risk seriously undermining the viability of a Palestinian state and the realisation of the Palestinians’ right to self-determination,” the UN Human Rights Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told the bi-weekly press conference in Geneva today.

February 2, 2026 Dan Sabbagh  The Guardian An authoritative survey of 23 armed conflicts over the last 18 months has concluded that international law seeking to limit the effects of war is at breaking point, with more than 100,000 civilians killed, while torture and rape are committed with near impunity. Sudanese families displaced from El Fasher reach out for food aid. Photograph: Marwan Ali/AP

© UNRWA The UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem is demolished by heavy machinery. January 20, 2026 UN News Service Responding to the dramatic development, head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees Philippe Lazzarini described it as an “unprecedented attack” against the UN, whose premises are protected under international law. The move represents “a new level of open and deliberate defiance of international law, including of the privileges and immunities of the United Nati