President David Adeang has reiterated his island nation’s name change before the world’s largest gathering of leaders at the United Nations.

World leaders are painting quite different views of the future of artificial intelligence at the United Nations, with colorful phrases such as killer robots and super intelligence.

The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is pleading for “a world built on interdependence” as he makes his final address to the General Assembly gathering of world leaders.

The United Nations has announced the appointment of U.S. agriculture official Luke Lindberg to head the World Food Program.

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have authorized U.N. experts to keep monitoring sanctions that were reimposed against Iran over its nuclear program.

Bill Gates is warning technology companies and world leaders that they must act now to ensure artificial intelligence combats social inequities.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Yemen's Houthi rebels have taken the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha, bringing them closer to controlling key shipping routes.

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

The United States military says it has struck new targets in Iran as hostilities flared after a month without military action.

The United Nations says armed men have killed at least 47 people and kidnapped over 50 others near Haiti’s capital.

The United Nations and the International Red Cross are urging countries to adopt bans and restrictions on autonomous weapons systems that are often called “killer robots.”.

The U.N.'s humanitarian chief warns of the growing threat of drones against civilians and aid workers in Ukraine.

The United Nations says that an explosion near a school complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul has wounded at least 42 children.

Taliban rulers have celebrated the fifth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan.

Russian jet-powered drones have struck a home in northern Ukraine, killing a 29-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son.

The United Nations warns that a strengthening El Nino is intensifying global weather extremes and is adding fuel to a planet that it says is already on fire.

The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo.

U.S. diplomats walked out as their French counterparts spoke at the United Nations after the European ally criticized the Trump administration’s human rights record.

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk won a second term Friday despite opposition from the United States, Russia and Israel to keep him in one of the most controversial United Nations posts for four more years.

The U.S. envoy to the United Nations says the U.S. government plans to stop violent gangs in Haiti from profiting off social media.

A senior European Union official says the EU has coordinated efforts to raise $1 billion in aid pledges for rebuilding Gaza.

Guy Gilboa-Dalal, an Israeli man who says he was sexually abused while held hostage in Gaza, is speaking out to highlight sexual abuse in conflict zones.

Portugal and Austria have defeated Germany for seats on the powerful but deeply divided U.N. Security Council in a hotly contested race after intense campaigning.

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees.

A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.

A four-week conference at the United Nations to review the treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons has ended without an agreement as the United States and Iran spar over Iran's nuclear program.

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion that says the right to strike is protected by a cornerstone labor treaty.

The Trump administration has announced $1.8 billion in additional funding for U.N. humanitarian aid.

Venezuela insists that a mineral-rich region of Guyana was fraudulently taken in the 19th century.

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says the majority of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is still believed to be at its Isfahan nuclear complex.

Four candidates vying to lead the United Nations have spent hours being grilled about their views on issues from restoring global peace to ending escalating poverty.

Four candidates to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations will audition for the job this week, far fewer than there were 10 years ago when António Guterres was selected as U.N. chief.

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Aid groups are warning that the war in the Middle East has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions in need and that more people will suffer if the violence continues.

The U_N_ General Assembly has passed a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.”.

Iran targeted the world’s busiest international airport Wednesday and attacked commercial ships as U.S. and Israeli strikes rocked Tehran, while the United Nations’ most powerful body demanded a halt to the Islamic Republic’s strikes on its Gulf neighbors that threaten global oil supplies.

The family of independent U.N. investigator Francesca Albanese has sued the Trump administration over U.S. sanctions imposed on her last year for her criticism of Israel’s policies in Gaza.

The United Nations and Somalia's government has said that nearly 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing severe hunger.

The United Nations says the United States has paid about $160 million of the nearly $4 billion it owes, and President Donald Trump is promising more money to the financially strapped world organization.

U.N.-backed investigators say Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have carried out a campaign in the city of el-Fasher in the Darfur region that shows “hallmarks of genocide” against non-Arab communities.

President Donald Trump has announced at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief package.

Members of the United Nations Security Council are calling for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasting Israeli efforts to expand control in the West Bank as a threat to prospects of a two-state solution.

UNICEF says that the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country.

The United Nations says it’s waiting to find out how much of the nearly $4 billion the United States owes the world organization the Trump administration intends to pay and when the money will arrive.

The United Nations chief is warning that the world body faces “imminent financial collapse” unless its financial rules are overhauled or all 193 member nations pay their dues in full and on time.

President Donald Trump launched his Board of Peace on Thursday to lead efforts to maintain a ceasefire in Gaza.

Grim humanitarian conditions remain in Gaza months after the ceasefire paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas militants.

President Donald Trump meandered through a list of his administration’s accomplishments while speaking at a White House press briefing Tuesday.

Israeli forces have targeted two United Nations facilities as part of their crackdown on the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” that was initially seen as a mechanism focused on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is taking shape with ambitions to have a far broader mandate of other global crises.

Strong winds have caused at least four deaths in Gaza as walls collapsed onto tents in the coastal territory.

U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the United Nations climate framework marks a significant escalation of anti-climate policy.

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.

Israel has revoked the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations, and now those groups are grappling with how that will affect aid operations in Gaza.

The United States has announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance funding.

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating.

The world’s leading authority on food crises says the spread of famine’s been averted in the Gaza Strip.

A new study says more than two-thirds of women journalists, rights defenders and activists report online violence and over 40% of them have faced real-world attacks linked to digital abuse.

Israeli police have forcibly entered the United Nations agency compound for Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem.

The U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, set up to distribute aid to Gaza as an alternative to the United Nations but which Palestinians said endangered the lives of civilians as they tried to get food, has said it will shutter operations.

United Nations climate talks in Brazil have reached a subdued agreement to deliver more money to countries hit hardest by climate change to help them adapt to the wrath of extreme weather.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to be U.S. deputy ambassador to the United Nations has urged “bold reform” of what she calls the “bloated, unfocused and ineffective” global organization.

United Nations climate talks are bubbling to a critical point, with host Brazil pressing negotiators to make progress on key issues.

The Trump administration’s blueprint to secure and govern Gaza has won strong approval at the United Nations.

Jamaica has joined other small island nations at the United Nations climate talks to urge immediate action on climate change.

Parts of Gaza's huge Muwasi tent camp are struggling after winter's first major rainfall.

A U.S. proposal to provide a United Nations mandate for an international stabilization force in Gaza is facing opposition from Russia, China and some Arab countries.

As United Nation climate talks get underway in Belem, a different kind of conference is kicking off: the People’s Summit, a gathering of activists, organizers, environmentalists and Indigenous groups from around the world.

A group of activists skirmished with security on Tuesday at United Nations climate talks in Brazilian Amazon city Belem, briefly trying to force their way into the main venue before they were pushed back.

The world has seen faster climate change than expected since the Paris Agreement a decade ago.

World leaders gathering the in Brazil's Amazon rainforest for the U.N.‘s annual climate summit warned Thursday that time is running short for urgent and decisive action to prevent the worst effects of climate change.

A new United Nations report finds that global climate plans have barely impacted future warming.

World leaders and diplomats have gathered for 30 years to tackle climate change, but progress has been slow.

A Palestinian government body says Israel has erected nearly 1,000 barriers in the occupied West Bank since Israel's war with Hamas began over two years ago.

The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the U.S. economic embargo of Cuba for a 33rd year.

The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran doesn’t appear to be actively enriching uranium but that the agency has recently detected renewed movement at the country’s nuclear sites.

The Houthi rebels have detained two additional United Nations staff members and raided the homes of several others in Yemen over the last 48 hours.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has toured a U.S.-led coordination center in southern Israel.

The United Nations says Houthi rebels released a dozen United Nations international staffers and allowed three others to move freely within the U.N. compound after detaining them in the facility in Yemen's capital over the weekend.

Israel’s National Institute of Forensic Medicine has identified the remains of two more hostages returned from Gaza, as officials and families warned Hamas to hand over the bodies of those still held.

A doctors' group says that Sudanese paramilitary forces have attacked a shelter in a besieged Darfur city, killing at least 53 people.

Postal traffic to the U.S. remains down about 70% five weeks after the end of the “de minimis” exemption.

The United Nations says 170,000 metric tons of food, medicine and other humanitarian aid is ready to enter Gaza.

The United Nations will begin slashing its peacekeeping force and operations, forcing thousands of soldiers in the next several months to evacuate far-flung global hotspots as a result of the latest U.S. funding cuts to the world body.

The United Nations chief is lamenting that 25 years after a landmark U.N. resolution demanded equal participation for women in all efforts to promote peace, far too often women remain absent.

Rohingya Muslims have pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives.

Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau has met with the heavily prosecuted vice president of Equatorial Guinea in Washington after the Trump administration approved a waiver of corruption sanctions.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan is urging the Taliban government to immediately restore nationwide internet and telecommunications access.

Iran said 120 Iranians detained in the United States for illegally entering the country will be returned to Iran in the coming days.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has made a strong case for China's role in global governance at the United Nations General Assembly.

World leaders have spent the past week at the United Nations often criticizing the U.N. itself.

They had a lot to say about global affairs.

Iran faces renewed UN sanctions over its nuclear program, escalating tensions with the West.

The United Nations has reimposed sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.

The United Nations has added 68 more companies to a blacklist of companies from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

Every year, tons of heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and other drugs flow around the world.

President Donald Trump said on his social media site that he was the victim of “three very sinister events” during his time at the United Nations on Tuesday and that the Secret Service will be looking into the issues.

World leaders at the United Nations General Assembly have spoken out against the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, as well as divisive reaction to it.