The 15-member Security Council held its sixth straw poll in the selection procedure of the next UN boss. The ballots were ...

About 32 million acres of South Pacific seabed off American Samoa could be auctioned in November in what would be the world’s ...

The UN Refugee Agency, which operates worldwide, including in Myanmar, is battered by drops in voluntary funding and the US dismantling the international refugee convention. Can the agency and its ...

US Ambassador Mike Waltz led a panel event at the UN on the status of human rights in Cuba, Oct. 19, 2026, about a week ...

The United Nations Security Council is expected to soon move into a more decisive stage of the selection process of the next ...

Binaifer Nowrojee, president of the nonprofit Open Society Foundations, June 2026. In an interview recently during the UN General Assembly high-level week, Nowrojee talked about what the world wants ...

A laundry worker at the Nyakunde Ebola Treatment Center, in Ituri Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outbreak of the virus hit the region in mid-May amid a continuing conflict ...

Jeff Bartos, US envoy to the UN on management and reform, far right, with fellow American diplomats, leaving the UN Security Council closed-door meeting to vote in the latest straw poll in the process ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An intense flurry of activity took place among the numerous United Nations secretary-general candidates during the high-level week of the ...

Jérôme Bonnafont, France’s envoy to the UN and monthly rotating president of the Security Council, led the body’s latest straw poll in the process to select the next UN secretary-general. There is no ...

Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, briefs the UN Security Council by video call, Sept. 23, 2026, on the need for guardrails on artificial intelligence. During the recently high-level week of ...

Nigerien Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine portrayed his West African nation and neighboring military-run Sahel states as a last rampart of African independence against European neocolonialism ...