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The United Nations General Assembly adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution with U.S. support urging wealthy developed nations to close the widening gap with poorer developing countries and ensure
The United Nations’ food agency earlier this week strongly condemned the looting of food supplies and burning of one of its warehouses over the weekend in
An estimated 200,000 people in Pakistan could be affected by the upcoming monsoon season, which is expected to bring heavier rains than usual, a top U.N. official warned
Violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, from Israel and the Palestinian
To uphold the one-China principle and the sanctity and authority of relevant United Nations General Assembly resolutions, China has decided not to approve the Taiwan island’s participation in
Thousands of journalists have fled their home countries in recent years to escape political repression, save their lives and escape conflict – but in exile they are often
A U.N. tribunal on maritime law said yesterday that countries are legally required to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, a victory for small island nations that are on
The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting yesterday to discuss Iran’s attack on Israel. The meeting ended without any action by the council. “Now
Preliminary hearings open today at the United Nations’ top court in a case that seeks an end of German military and other aid to Israel, based on
The General Assembly is set to vote today on what would be the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence, aimed at ensuring the powerful new technology benefits
Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported yesterday, with sexual exploitation to blame
More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members demanded yesterday that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including
Israel’ s intention in alleging that 12 staff members of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East were involved in Hamas’ Oct
The United Nations issued a somber global economic forecast for 2024 last week, pointing to challenges from escalating conflicts, sluggish global trade, persistently high interest rates and
The United Nations peacekeeping chief says he was very satisfied with the strong support of many countries for its far-flung operations at a recent ministerial meeting, despite
United Nations climate negotiators directed the world yesterday to transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels in a move the talks chief called historic, despite critics’ worries about
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council yesterday of an impending “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and urged its members to
The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in
The U.N.’s most powerful body must support governments seeking to legally declare the intensifying crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid,” the head
Russia’s top diplomat denounced the United States and the West on Saturday as self-interested defenders of a fading international power structure, but he didn’t discuss his country’s
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