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The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution urging wealthy and developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure they have equal opportunities to use and benefit from artificial intelligence
July 02, 2024
Donald Trump has repeatedly said he can settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president again
July 01, 2024
The United Nations is warning that only 17% of its 169 targets to improve life for the world’s more than 7 billion people are likely to be reached by the 2030 deadline
June 29, 2024A research expert has told the United Nations Security Council that ballistic missile remnants found in Ukraine came from North Korea
June 29, 2024
The father of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is calling on world leaders meeting at the United Nations next week to stand up for freedom of the press and urge Russia to release him
September 14, 2023
The war in Ukraine and its visiting president take center stage at the United Nations this week
September 17, 2023
The U.N. nuclear chief says he asked to meet Iran’s president on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting, His goal is to reverse Tehran’s ban on many of the agency’s inspectors
September 18, 2023
The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious
September 18, 2023
The head of the United Nations food agency says a global hunger crisis has left more than 700 million people not knowing when or if they will eat again
September 15, 2023
The U.N. Security Council is expected to vote Tuesday on an Arab-backed resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, which the United States announced it will veto
February 19, 2024Supporters of the Palestinians’ request for full membership in the United Nations have asked the U.N. Security Council to revive their application for admission submitted in 2011
April 03, 2024Soccer fans around the globe will now have a day to celebrate the world’s most popular sport every year – May 25
May 07, 2024
The decades-old conflict in Congo’s mineral-rich east has “drastically deteriorated” since early 2022 and gotten even worse since last October, with sharp increases in sexual violence, the number of wounded and child recruitment, the top Red Cross official in the country says
June 27, 2024
The U.N. political chief who will chair the first meeting between Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and envoys from about 25 countries says women's rights will be raised at every session
June 27, 2024
The United States and its key European allies clashed with Iran and Russia over Tehran’s expanding nuclear program, with the U.S. vowing “to use all means necessary to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran” in a U.N. Security Council meeting
June 25, 2024The United Nations chief has launched global principles to combat online hate and lies and demanded that big tech companies use their power to reduce the harm they are doing to people and societies around the world
June 24, 2024
Russia’s foreign minister has clashed with the United States and Ukraine’s supporters at a U.N. meeting where Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West, and China warned that further global chaos could impact the slowing global economy
January 22, 2024
The Sudanese people “are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” with famine, disease and fighting “closing in” and no end in sight, the top U.N. humanitarian official in the war-torn country says
May 15, 2024The United Nations is reporting improved economic prospects since its January forecast for the global economy, pointing to a better outlook in the United States and several large emerging economies including Brazil, India and Russia
May 16, 2024U.N. experts say South Sudan is close to securing a $13 billion loan from a company in the United Arab Emirates, despite the oil-rich country’s difficulties in managing debts backed by its oil reserves
May 17, 2024A U.N. independent investigator says thousands of journalists have fled their home countries in recent years to escape political repression, save their lives and escape conflict
May 23, 2024The United Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to end the U.N. political mission in Iraq established in 2003 after the United States-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein to coordinate post-conflict humanitarian and reconstruction efforts, and to help restore a representative government in the country
May 31, 2024Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia have gotten seats on the U.N. Security Council
June 06, 2024The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution that strongly condemns attacks on humanitarian workers and U.N. personnel
May 24, 2024
The United Nations envoy charged with reporting on violations against children in conflicts around the world says that first and foremost she is worried about what’s happening to youngsters in war-torn Sudan
June 14, 2024
