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Monday, May 18, 2026
TopicUnited Nations

Topic: United Nations

‘Terror, coercion’: Pakistan under scrutiny as UN flags forced conversion & marriage of minority girls

UN experts highlight ‘systematic discrimination’ against minority women, urge Islamabad to increase marriage age for girls to 18 in all provinces, criminalise forced conversion.

UN team says member state linked Jaish with Red Fort blast, outfit formed women’s wing a month before

The UN counter-terrorism monitoring team’s report said a member country highlighted JeM’s role in terror attacks, but another described the group as 'defunct'.

UN says it could have zero cash by July as Trump’s US withholds dues

The US is traditionally responsible for 22% of the organisation’s budget. It still owes the UN about $1.4 billion in arrears, on top of a $767 million bill for this year’s budget.

Trump suggests Board of Peace could supplant United Nations. ‘Never lived up to its potential’

Trump has invited dozens of world leaders to the board, a key element of his 20-point plan to bring a lasting peace in Gaza.

Trump is dismantling the post-1991 world America built. He rejects a second superpower

For all the murmurs of multipolarity, Donald Trump knows it’s still a unipolar world and is exercising muscle without veneer.

Global economic growth to slow in 2026 as Trump’s tariffs bite, UN says

The global economy is forecast to expand 2.7% this year, down from an estimated 2.8% in 2025. Growth is expected to go back up to 2.9% by 2027.

UN on survival mode as US doesn’t pay dues, plans sharp cuts in 2026 budget

The reduction includes cutting 2,900 positions. Earlier this month, UN announced it would no longer provide paper towels at restrooms in its New York headquarters.

What stands between Trump’s peace plan and the ‘New Gaza’ it promises

While fighting in Gaza has generally stopped, there’s been little progress towards Phase 2 goals. Hamas rejects a Phase 2 demand for its own disarmament.

Trump calls it ‘most violent place on Earth’. In Sudan, sexual violence & starvation are weapons

The two central figures are Sudan army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al‑Burhan & Rapid Support Forces head Mohd Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemedti. Both started out together but fell out later.

Belém COP30 ends with a flutter as climate finance plan sidesteps fossil fuel truth

India reaffirms support to COP30 declaration, says any attempt to reopen issues that have already been gavelled would set 'a dangerous precedent'. 

On Camera

25 years after 9/11—Trump’s new counter-terrorism doctrine reveals an exhausted America

For Trump, the killing of IS second-in-command, al-Minuki, is an ad for the new counter-terrorism doctrine. But America needs to ask itself why taking the hammer to the problem has failed to demolish it.

Maharashtra Charity commissioner halts key Tata Trusts meeting citing pending probe

The pivotal board meeting scheduled for 16 May was expected to see trust chairman Noel Tata nominating new board members of Tata Sons Pvt, the group’s holding company.

Drones no longer enablers, they’re replacing manned aircraft roles—CISC Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit

Speaking at IAF think-tank seminar, Air Marshal Dixit was backed by Air Chief Marshal A.P. Singh, who said unmanned aerial systems are no longer just the eyes in the sky but ‘claws in the sky’.

Pakistan is tactically brilliant, strategically disastrous. It’s primed for repeated blunders

Pakistan has ended up losing every war against India but that hasn’t prevented it from claiming victory. We will go over the evidence to anticipate what to expect next.