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China, at UN, warns against 'expansion of the battlefield' in the Ukraine war
Three days before his communist government turns 75, Chinaโs foreign minister is warning fellow leaders against an โexpansion of the battlefieldโ in Russiaโs war with Ukraine.
At the UN, young people push to make sure the generational shift is faster โ and more substantial
As a big young cohort comes of age in a troubled world, itโs coming with ideas about inclusion, participation and authority in the United Nations and other organizations.
UN chief criticizes divided Security Council for failure of leadership to end wars, calls for unity
The United Nations chief sharply criticized the powerful Security Council for a failure of leadership to end wars in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and beyond.
Guterres tells UN meeting that impunity, inequality and other challenges risk engulfing the world
The head of the United Nations is warning world leaders that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are driving modern civilization toward โa powder keg that risks engulfing the world."
At the UN, world leaders try to lay out a vision for the future โ and actually make it happen
The U.N. General Assembly has adopted a โPact for the Futureโ to meet the challenges of the 21st century.
UN nations endorse a 'Pact for the Future,' and the body's leader says it must be more than talk
The U.N. General Assembly has approved a blueprint to bring the worldโs increasingly divided nations together to tackle 21st-century challenges.
UN experts urge United Nations to lay foundations for global governance of artificial intelligence
A high-powered U.N. advisory body says global governance of artificial intelligence is โimperativeโ and is urging the United Nations to lay the foundations for the first inclusive global institutions to regulate the fast-growing technology.
UN chief urges divided nations to approve blueprint to address global challenges from climate to AI
The United Nations chief is urging the worldโs divided nations to compromise and approve a blueprint to address global challenges from conflicts and climate change to artificial intelligence and reforming the U.N. and global financial institutions.
New president of UN General Assembly calls for unity to tackle borderless issues
Cameroonโs former prime minister has taken over the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly and called for nations to unite and to address global challenges from climate change and poverty to conflicts and armed violence.
The UN chief calls the death and destruction in Gaza the worst he's seen
The U.N. chief says the United Nations has offered to monitor any cease-fire in Gaza and is demanding an end to the worst death and destruction he has seen in his more than seven-year tenure.
The AP Interview: East Timor's president says the pope's visit isn't time to dwell on past sins
The president of East Timor sees Pope Francisโ upcoming visit as a prime opportunity to promote Asiaโs youngest country on the world stage, not a time to confront the legacy of abuse by influential members of the clergy in the deeply Catholic nation.
East Timor celebrates 25th anniversary of UN-backed vote for independence
East Timor is celebrating the 25th anniversary of a U.N.-backed referendum that secured its independence from its major neighbor Indonesia, which invaded the former Portuguese colony in 1975.
Israel-Hamas war latest: The Israeli military strikes Jenin on Day 3 of its West Bank raid
The Israeli military says it struck the West Bank city of Jenin on the third day of heavy fighting in the Palestinian territory and killed a senior Hamas commander in the city.
The worldwide catastrophe of rising seas especially imperils Pacific paradises, Guterres says
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is putting out yet another climate SOS to the world.
UN says a record number of aid workers were killed in 2023 and this year may be even higher
The United Nations says that a record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier.
Israel-Hamas war latest: Blinken pushes for cease-fire in his 9th trip to Mideast since war began
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza.
UN expert panel sent to Venezuela blasts lack of transparency in presidential elections
A panel of experts from the United Nations said Venezuelaโs recent presidential elections lacked โbasic transparency and integrity."
UN asks nations to better prepare, cool the vulnerable as 'extreme heat epidemic' breaks records
The United Nations is calling for a flurry of efforts to reduce the human toll from soaring and searing temperatures in what it calls an extreme heat epidemic.
UN chief urges funds for Palestinians, saying Israel is forcing Gazans 'to move like human pinballs'
The United Nations chief is appealing for funding for the beleaguered U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees in Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Sudan's warring parties arrive in Geneva for UN-hosted talks on possible local cease-fires
U.N. officials say that Sudanโs warring parties have arrived in Geneva at the invitation of the United Nations to discuss the protection of civilians through possible local cease-fires.
Haiti's prime minister says Kenyan police are crucial to controlling gangs, early days are positive
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the countryโs gangs and moving toward democratic elections.
Leaders of Russia and China meet at a Central Asian summit in a show of deepening cooperation
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping have met for the second time in as many months as they visit Kazakhstan for a session of an international group founded to counter Western alliances.
The Taliban tell the West to look past harsh edicts on Afghan women and girls and build ties
The Taliban is saying the West should look past their harsh edicts on Afghan women and girls to improve relations.
Kenya's president says he won't sign the finance bill that led protesters to storm the parliament
Kenya's president says he wonโt sign into law a finance bill proposing new taxes that prompted thousands of protesters to storm the parliament on Tuesday.
UN will declare that both Israel and Hamas are violating children's rights in armed conflict
The U.N. secretary-general will tell the Security Council next week that both Israel and Hamas are violating childrenโs rights and leaving them exposed to danger in their war to eliminate each other.
UN chief wants a tax on profits of fossil fuel companies, calling them 'godfathers of climate chaos'
U.N. Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres has called for a โwindfallโ tax on profits of fossil fuel companies to help pay for the fight against global warming.
UN tribute to Iran's late President Raisi marred by protests and European and US snubs
The U.N. General Assemblyโs tribute to Iranโs late president Ebrahim Raisi was snubbed by Western and East European nations amid protests against honoring a leader who was reviled for his crackdown on opponents.
AP interview: Divisions among the world's powerful nations are undermining UN efforts to end crises
The UN peacekeeping chief says deep divisions especially among the worldโs most powerful nations have significantly undermined what the United Nations can do to help nations move from conflict to peace.
Security Council approves resolution decrying attacks on UN and aid workers and demanding protection
The United Nations Security Council has approved a resolution that strongly condemns attacks on humanitarian workers and U.N. personnel.
Greek judge dismisses case against Egyptians accused in shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants
A Greek judge has dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year and sent shockwaves through the European Unionโs border protection and asylum operations.
AI companies make fresh safety promise at Seoul summit, nations agree to align work on risks
Leading artificial intelligence companies made a fresh pledge at a mini-summit Tuesday to develop AI safely, while world leaders agreed to build a network of publicly backed safety institutes to advance research and testing of the technology.
UN investigators probe 14 Gaza aid staffers Israel had tied to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack
U.N. investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers from the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians who Israel claims were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that spurred the latest war in Gaza.
UN report says 282 million people faced acute hunger in 2023, with the worst famine in Gaza
A new report says nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza hosting the largest number of people facing famine.
The Latest | UN chief calls for `urgent de-escalation' in the Middle East
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for โurgent de-escalationโ of hostilities in a phone conversation with Iranโs foreign minister following Tehranโs weekend attack on Israel.
UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths is stepping down for health reasons
U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths is stepping down for health reasons after nearly three years of trying to tackle mounting crises in Ukraine, Gaza and Africa.
UN chief says it's time to 'truly flood' Gaza with aid and calls starvation there an outrage
U_N_ Secretary-General Antรณnio Guterres says it's time to โtruly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid" and calls the starvation inside the enclave a โmoral outrage.โ.
UN weather agency issues 'red alert' on climate change after record heat, ice-melt increases in 2023
The U.N. weather agency is sounding a โred alertโ about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice.
A meeting of the UN body promoting equality for women starts with 5 male speakers
The U.N.โs preeminent body promoting equality for women and girls has opened its annual meeting with five male speakers in a row.
A paramilitary group at war with Sudanโs military endorses a cease-fire during holy fasting month
A Sudanese paramilitary group battling the countryโs military in a nearly yearlong ruinous conflict has endorsed a resolution by the U.N. Security Council calling for a cease-fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
UN chief: Legal equality for women could take 300 years as backlash rises against women's rights
The United Nations chief says legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality has become an uphill struggle against rank discrimination and gross human human rights abuses.
UN Security Council urges Sudan's warring parties to halt hostilities during holy month of Ramadan
The U.N. Security Council is urging Sudanโs warring parties to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow desperately needed aid to reach 25 million people.
UN chief urges Sudan's warring parties to halt hostilities during Muslim holy month of Ramadan
The United Nations chief is urging Sudanโs warring parties to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the countryโs unity and โcould ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions.โ.
Most UN Security Council members demand Taliban rescind decrees seriously oppressing women and girls
More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Councilโs members have demanded that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and womenโs right to work and move freely.
UN chief warns climate chaos and food crises threaten global peace: 'Empty bellies fuel unrest'
The United Nations chief is warning that climate chaos and food crises are increasing threats to global peace.
Live updates | Deadly strikes across Gaza as Israel makes plans to evacuate civilians from Rafah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the military to draw up plans to evacuate civilians from the southern city of Rafah, ahead of an expected Israeli invasion into areas near the border with Egypt.
UN chief urges all nations to do everything possible to stop the 'horrible' war in Sudan
The United Nations chief is urging the international community to mobilize and do everything possible to stop the war in Sudan, saying โwhat is happening is horrible.โ.
North Korea tests more cruise missiles as leader Kim calls for war readiness
South Koreaโs military said North Korea has fired multiple cruise missiles into waters off its western coast, extending a provocative series of weapons tests in the face of deepening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan.
What is UNRWA, the main aid provider in Gaza that Israel accuses of militant links?
Israelโs allegations that 12 employees of a United Nations agency were involved in Hamasโ Oct. 7 attack have led the United States and several other countries to cut off funding.
Israel notes 'significant gaps' after cease-fire talks with US, Qatar, Egypt but says constructive
Israel says โsignificant gapsโ remain after cease-fire talks with the United States, Qatar and Egypt, but it calls them constructive and says they will continue in the week ahead.
UN chief warns that Israel's rejection of a two-state solution threatens global peace
The United Nations chief is warning Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyauโs rejection of a two-state solution will indefinitely prolong a conflict that is threatening global peace and emboldening extremists everywhere.
In Davos, Israel's president calls ties with Saudi Arabia key to ending war in Gaza
Israelโs president says normalizing ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be a key element of ending the war with Hamas and a game-changer for the entire Middle East.
At Davos, Blinken calls a pathway to a Palestinian state a necessity for Israeli security
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel cannot achieve โgenuine securityโ without a pathway to a Palestinian state, insisting such a move could help unify the Middle East and isolate Israelโs top rival: Iran.
UN appoints a former Dutch deputy premier and Mideast expert as its Gaza humanitarian coordinator
The Netherlandsโ former deputy prime minister and Mideast expert has been appointed the United Nations coordinator for humanitarian aid to Gaza, where there are more than 2 million desperate civilians in need of food, water and medicine.
Palestinians hope a vote in the UN General Assembly will show wide support for a Gaza cease-fire
The Palestinians are hoping that a vote in the U.N. General Assembly on a nonbinding resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire will demonstrate widespread global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war.
As COP28 nears finish, critics say proposal 'doesn't even come close' to what's needed on climate
Countries at United Nations-led climate talks in Dubai moved closer to reaching a final deal on Monday, but critics condemned a draft agreement as a watered-down document that won't stop dangerous climate change.
Live updates | Gaza death toll tops 17,700 and Yemen rebels threaten ship traffic to Israel
Israelโs ground offensive throughout the Gaza Strip is advancing under airstrikes and artillery fire.
Israel presses on with its Gaza offensive after US veto derails Security Council efforts to halt war
Israelโs military is pushing ahead with its punishing air and ground offensive in Gaza, bolstered by a U.S. veto derailing U.N. Security Council efforts to end the war.
US vetoes UN resolution backed by many nations demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza
The United States has vetoed a United Nations resolution backed by almost all other Security Council members and many other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.
Israeli troops round up Palestinian men in northern Gaza as UN warns aid operation is 'in tatters'
Desperate Palestinians fleeing Israelโs expanding ground offensive crowded into an ever-shrinking area of the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war entered its third month.
Live updates | Widening Israeli offensive in southern Gaza worsens dire humanitarian conditions
The Israeli military hit Rafah in southern Gaza overnight, residents say, as United Nations officials warn there are no safe places left in the besieged territory.
Desperation grows among Palestinians trapped with little aid as Israel battles Hamas in Gaza
Israeli forces struck the southern Gaza town of Rafah twice overnight, sowing fear in one of the last places where civilians can seek refuge.
UN chief uses rare power to warn Security Council of impending 'humanitarian catastrophe' in Gaza
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council of an impending โhumanitarian catastropheโ in Gaza and urged its members to demand an immediate cease-fire.
Fighting between Israel and Hamas rages in Gaza's second-largest city, blocking aid from population
Israeli troops say they are battling Hamas militants in the center of the Gaza Stripโs second-largest city, Khan Younis.
Live updates | Fighting in southern Gaza city as Israel widens its offensive
The center of Gazaโs second-largest city has seen fighting amid Israelโs widening air and ground offensive in the southern part of the territory that has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened dire humanitarian conditions.
After a fast start, COP28 climate talks now in murky middle of hope, roadblocks
After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate conference Wednesday are finishing up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine.
Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai urges world to confront Taliban's 'gender apartheid' against women
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says the world needs to recognize and confront the Taliban's โgender apartheidโ against women and girls in Afghanistan.
Earth is running a fever. And UN climate talks are focusing on the contagious effect on human health
With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks have turned their focus on contagious effects on human health.
Don't ignore us: Backed by pope, poorer nations use COP28 summit to press rich world on climate
Leaders of developing nations launched into the second-day of a U.N. climate summit to press rich industrialized countries to share their knowhow to fight global warming and ease the financial burdens they face.
Takeaways from Friday's events at UN climate conference known as COP28
Friday was a day for speechmaking at the United Nations annual climate conference known as COP28, as heads of state each gave short speeches to deliver their views on the planetโs climate crisis, what their nation is doing and what they think others should do.
Top world leaders talk of climate crisis at UN summit. They say they must act on fossil fuels, war
Dozens of world leaders said they know the planetโs dangerously overheating and they are trying to keep it from getting worse.
Climate contradictions key at UN talks. Less future warming projected, yet there's more current pain
Experts say the world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated.
'We absolutely need to act immediately,' says UN chief during visit to Antarctica ahead of COP28
Ahead of international climate talks, U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited globally-important Antarctica, where ice thatโs been frozen for millions of years is melting due to human-caused climate change, sending the message that โwe absolutely need to act immediately.โ.
A rapidly melting Antarctica gets the attention of UN chief ahead of COP28 climate talks
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting Antarctica just before the COP28 climate talks begin in Dubai.
UN report says world is racing to well past warming limit as carbon emissions rise instead of plunge
A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold.
Live updates | Biden says Gaza's largest hospital 'must be protected' as thousands flee the fighting
Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gazaโs largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the medical facility.
Live updates | Israel says troops push deeper into Gaza City as Palestinians flee to the south
Israelโs military said it was advancing deep into Gaza City after encircling the northern part of the besieged Palestinian enclave.
US and Arab partners disagree on the need for a cease-fire as Israeli airstrikes kill more civilians
The United States and Arab partners are disagreeing on the need for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military says the besieged enclaveโs Hamas rulers are โencountering the full forceโ of its troops.
Executions in Iran are up 30%, a new United Nations report says
A new report from the United Nations says Iran is carrying out executions โat an alarming rate,โ putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year.
Israel accuses UN chief of justifying terrorism for saying Hamas attack 'didn't happen in a vacuum'
Israeli officials are outraged over U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterresโ comment that the deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel โdid not happen in a vacuum.โ.
Israel vows again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire in Gaza at a major UN meeting
Israel is vowing again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire at a high-level U_N_ meeting from the U_N_ chief, the Palestinians and many countries and declaring that its war against the extremist group in Gaza is also โthe war of the free world.โ.
Putin begins visit in China underscoring ties amid Ukraine war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing on a visit that underscores Chinaโs support for Moscow during its war in Ukraine as well as Russian backing for Chinaโs bid to expand its economic and diplomatic influence abroad through its decade-old โBelt and Roadโ initiative.
UN airs concerns for civilians as Israel steps up military response in Gaza to deadly Hamas attacks
The United Nations is expressing growing concerns about humanitarian needs in Palestinian areas as Israel ratchets up a muscular military riposte and lockdown of Gaza after the weekend attack by Hamas militants who killed and kidnapped hundreds of civilians in Israel.
UN summit of world leaders, by the numbers: The longest speech, the language that dominated and more
Nearly all the worldโs on stage, and all the men and but 20 women merely players.
AI is on the world's mind. Is the UN the place to figure out what to do about it?
Just a few years ago, artificial intelligence got barely a mention at the U.N. General Assemblyโs convocation of world leaders.
As the world's problems grow more challenging, the head of the United Nations gets bleaker
At the annual meeting of world leaders last year, the United Nations chief sounded a global alarm about the survival of humanity and the planet.
Top warming talks official hopes for 'course correction' and praises small steps in climate efforts
A top official of upcoming international climate negotiations hopes to prove critics wrong and surprise them with a โcourse correctionโ for an ever-warming world.
UNGA Briefing: Permanent observers, more Security Council and what else is going on at the UN
Itโs Day 3 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York.
Behind all the speechmaking at the UN lies a basic, unspoken question: Is the world governable?
At the United Nations, โmultilateralismโ is always the goal, however fragmented and complex.
UN chief warns of 'gates of hell' in climate summit, but carbon polluting nations stay silent
The United Nations chief says Earth is facing a hellish problem in climate change and its leaders still arenโt doing nearly enough to curb carbon emissions thatโs causing it.
Ukraine's president, at Security Council, lashes out at Russia but avoids face-to-face encounter
Ukraineโs president is accusing Russia of undermining all norms of war and the United Nations Charter.
UNGA Briefing: Security Council, climate summit and what else is going on at the United Nations
Itโs Day 2 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York.