Vote is 191-2, with only US and Israel in opposition, but US 'will not be bound by a history of mistrust,' its ambassador says
Special rapporteur on human rights of migrants urges European governments to stop sealing borders
The United Nations' founders set out 70 years ago to prevent another world war. In that, they succeeded to date, but there has been no shortage of crises and conflicts to test the organization. As it moves into its next decade, VOA’s Margaret Besheer looks at how the world body has grown and what it needs to do to stay relevant going forward.
Russian strikes in Syria have been 'profoundly counter-productive,' US Ambassador Samantha Power tells a meeting of UN Security Council on Middle East
Missile was capable of carrying nuclear warhead and violated UN resolution, nations tell sanctions committee
U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power told VOA the United States will seek “appropriate action” in the U.N. Security Council “in the coming days” against Iran for its launching of a ballistic missile earlier this week.
Iran conducted testing of a new guided, long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile on October 10; Powers says the test was prohibited and Iran is in violation
Dynamic of council also may be affected by Ukraine’s election to Eastern European seat amid its conflict with permanent member Russia
Security Council gives go-ahead to EU military initiative targeting human traffickers, smugglers in international Mediterranean waters to stem rising, dangerous flow
Audit will look at interaction between world body and two organizations that US prosecutors have accused of bribing a former top UN official
Martin Kobler, whose term as UN envoy to DRC is ending, warns that human rights violations there are increasing
John Ashe was Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to UN from 2004 until his election as president of 68th session of the General Assembly in 2013
'Israel will not allow Iran to break in, walk in or sneak in to the nuclear weapons club,' Israeli prime minister tells UN General Assembly
World body has grown substantially over those years and as it moves into its next decade will decide what it needs to do to stay relevant going forward
US and Cuban leaders, at sidelines of General Assembly, discuss advances in restoring their nations' diplomatic ties
UN says nearly 515,000 asylum seekers have left war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa since January
Country's president tells UN General Assembly nuclear deal agreed to between six major powers and Tehran should signal a new erarabia
Peacekeeping summit will take place Monday, meeting on violent extremism on Tuesday
UN chief, pontiff exchanged personal gifts during visit at United Nations Friday
In UN address, Francis called pact between Iran and 6 world powers ‘proof of the potential of political good will’
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