All eyes are on the president-elect's picks for his top team as his party closes in on full control of Congress.

The UN extended its authorization of a multinational policing mission in Haiti led by Kenya on Monday amid reports of thousands of deaths due to gang violence this year and rising levels of acute hunger in the country. The transitional council governing Haiti said that a chronic lack of funding has hobbled the mission so far and called for the force to be transitioned into a UN peacekeeping mission, a plan the body sidestepped in its adopted text after opposition by China and Russia. 

The organization’s current composition has failed to keep pace with a changing world, says Antonio Guterres

A staggering total of 120 million people are living forcibly displaced by war, violence and persecution, the UN said Thursday, branding the ever-increasing number a “terrible indictment on the state of the world”.

Israeli military says it has detained hundreds in Gaza hospital raid, including some senior militants

A ground offensive in Rafah 'would have serious implications for regional peace and security,' U.S. says

North Korea's ambassador made a rare appearance at the UN Security Council on Monday to defend his country's launch of a spy satellite, as leader Kim Jong Un studied images including of the White House and Pentagon.

Standing up for Ukraine but not Palestine makes the US and its allies look like hypocrites, officials have told the outlet

US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky take centre-stage at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday to address world leaders on the war in Ukraine that has divided the global body. Biden has urged world leaders to stand with Kyiv against Russian aggression, while also touching on Washington's tense relationship with China.

The country’s most popular political leader, ousted in a military coup, has four separate allegations against her that could keep her detained for years

An international treaty banning nuclear weapons has been ratified by a 50th country, the UN said Saturday, allowing the "historic" text to enter into force after 90 days.

The UNSC has held that the Israeli activity over the pre-1967 lines is illegal under international law. This includes activity in east Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the West Bank.

A draft resolution recognizing Guaido is certain to be vetoed by Russia.

NIKKI Haley, one of Donald Trump’s strongest Cabinet members as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, has shocked many by resigning her post.

Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, an international panel of scientists reported Sunday.

The US has announced it will deny diplomatic visas to same-sex partners of foreign diplomats and United Nations employees.

JAMES Corden, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon took great delight mocking Donald Trump over his UN speech where world leaders laughed at the president’s outrageous claim.
 

US President Donald Trump has made the delegates at the UN general assembly laugh - seemingly without attempting to do so.