RUSSIA AGAIN VETOES BID TO RENEW SYRIA GAS ATTACKS PROBE

Russia is wasting our time, US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the council after the vote... READ MORE›

RUSSIA AGAIN VETOES BID TO RENEW SYRIA GAS ATTACKS PROBE

Russia is wasting our time, US Ambassador Nikki Haley told the council after the vote... READ MORE›

UN BANS FOUR SHIPS OVER NORTH KOREA CONTRABAND, US DELAYS FOUR MORE

UN bans four ships over North Korea contraband, US delays four more... READ MORE›

U.N. BANS FOUR SHIPS OVER NORTH KOREA CONTRABAND, U.S. DELAYS FOUR MORE

U.N. bans four ships over North Korea contraband, U.S. delays four more... READ MORE›

UN SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS DPRK'S MISSILE LAUNCH, URGES PEACEFUL SOLUTION

The United Nations Security Council has condemned the latest missile launch by Pyongyang and urged a peaceful solution to the crisis on the Korean Peninsula... READ MORE›

UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY OPENS 72ND SESSION[1]

Miroslav Lajcak, the new president of the UN General Assembly, on Tuesday declared the opening of the 72 session of the decision-making body of the United Nations... READ MORE›

SECURITY COUNCIL BACKS ANTA?NIO GUTERRES TO BE NEXT U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL

The Security Council announced that Mr. Guterres, a former Portuguese prime minister and former chief of the United Nations refugee agency, had strong support... READ MORE›

HUMANITARIAN CRISIS EVOKES EUROPES DARKEST HOUR

In Europe, we benefited from humanitarian assistance and the acceptance of refugees after the disaster that was World War II, Mr. Roth said... READ MORE›

CHINA SUPPORTS RUSSIAN POSITION ON SYRIA & AFGHANISTAN - BEIJING

Being the only non-western member of the UN Security Council besides Russia, China has been taking Moscow's side on heated and highly debatable issues... READ MORE›

AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST

The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›

WHY TRUMP'S PLAN TO SLASH U.N. FUNDING COULD LEAD TO GLOBAL CALAMITY

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations appointed by Trump, said in a statement on Thursday that in many areas, the U.N... READ MORE›

US AND CHINA NEGOTIATE ARMS DEAL FOR CYBERSPACE

Mr. Obama, who has said little about the United States' development of cyberweapons during his presidency, has begun to talk about it in recent days... READ MORE›

COMPARING GREECE TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION

It sounds a lot like the Great Depression in the United States... READ MORE›

VITALY CHURKIN RUSSIAS UN AMBASSADOR DIES AT 64

Vitaly was a master of diplomacy, said Francois Delattre, France's envoy to the United Nations... READ MORE›

AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE

Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›

U.S.A. VS. JAPAN: WOMEN'S WORLD CUP FINAL 2015

It is the third time the United States has won the Women's World Cup and the first since 1999... READ MORE›

UN RESOLUTION URGES COUNTRIES TO FIGHT ISLAMIC STATE

On Friday, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, announced a summit meeting designed to draw pledges from countries to resettle Syrians... READ MORE›

UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION PLANNED BY WORLD POWERS TO DECLARE WAR AGAINST GROUP IN IRAQ AND SYRIA

Isis United Nations Security Council resolution planned by world powers to declare war against group in Iraq and Syria... READ MORE›

EUROPE'S CURRENT ANTI-MIGRANT RHETORIC CARRIES ECHOES OF 1930S ANTI-SEMITISM

Even during World War II, let alone before it started, antisemitism was rife in American political and public life... READ MORE›

70 YEARS LATER HOW WORLD WAR II CHANGED AMERICA

Even as World War II was ending 70 years ago, Americans already knew it had transformed their country... READ MORE›

American diplomats have repeatedly warned the Palestinians that joining the International Criminal Court would lead to congressional sanctions... READ MORE›

AS DOORS CLOSE SYRIAN REFUGEES DESPAIR

In October, the European Union bolstered its support for the food distribution program... READ MORE›

PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›

'ONE PRESIDENT AT A TIME': WHITE HOUSE DEFENDS UN-ISRAEL VOTE

An Israeli official on Friday suggested that the Obama administration helped orchestrate the resolution... READ MORE›

U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX

As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›

56 NATIONS ATTEND FOUNDING OF ASIAN INFRASTRUCTURE BANK IN CHINA

Stephens, general counsel of the Asian Development Bank in Manila... READ MORE›

REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA

To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›

POPE FRANCIS TO TALK CLIMATE MIGRANTS AT UNITEDNATIONS

Francis visit to the United Nations will be the fifth by a pope... READ MORE›

U.S. PLANS TO STORE HEAVY ARMS IN BALTIC, EASTERN EUROPE

Plans to store heavy arms in Baltic, Eastern Europe source WASHINGTON An aerial view of the Pentagon building in Washington, June 15, 2005... READ MORE›

'WE CAN DO IT!' HUNDREDS DRESS UP AS WWII ICON ROSIE THE RIVETER

They'd just tentatively broken the Guinness World Record for most Rosies in one place since WWII... READ MORE›

CHINA BACKS 'FURTHER RESPONSE' TO DPRK NUCLEAR TEST

China is resolutely opposed to the DPRK's nuclear tests, Geng Shuang told a regular news briefing in Beijing... READ MORE›

UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS

The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›

70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE

70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›

WWII TANK WAS STASHED IN 78-YEAR-OLD'S CELLAR

Prosecutors meanwhile are investigating whether possession of the tank torpedo anti-aircraft gun and other weapons violates Germany's War Weapons Control Act... READ MORE›

KERRY MEETS IRAN MINISTER IN MUNICH ON NUCLEAR TALKS

The draft resolution is under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, though it does not authorize the use of military force... READ MORE›

PHOTOGRAPHS OF DAILY LIFE IN DOUMA

Syrian civil war Photographs of daily life in Douma... READ MORE›