The South Pacific cyclone season officially starts today, 1 November and will run through to April 2026. Pacific Island ...

High inequality makes the world vulnerable to pandemics and creates a vicious cycle that puts public health and economies at risk, leading economists, health experts and the United Nations said Monday ...

How was the UN created? Initial planning began in 1939, when it became clear that the League of Nations had failed in its job ...

Since their creation, nuclear weapons have struck awe and horror in the popular imagination, including that of the scientists who helped create them. The horrific damage, death and destruction caused ...

To understand how anti-Zionism evolved into a dominant moral language on the progressive left, and how the Palestinian cause came to be seen as the paradigmatic struggle against oppression, we must ...

The life of U Thant is the subject of a new book by Thant Myint-U titled “Peacemaker U Thant and the Forgotten Quest for a ...

The rulings came a day before the Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the nation’s biggest food aid ...

Russian armed forces conducted another large-scale combined attack across Ukraine in the early hours of Thursday, reportedly targeting critical energy infrastructure, said the UN Human Rights ...

The U.N. needs U.S. engagement and strong American leadership. And the United States needs an effective United Nations, the ...

ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AP) — President Donald Trump described his face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday as a ...

President Trump has confidently predicted striking a deal with China's leader, but it's unclear how final any negotiations ...

TANZANIA: The country’s presidential election teetered toward chaos today as protests erupted, the military was deployed, ...