Countries far from conflict paying the price for wars not their own, India tells UN
India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar warned on Saturday that violent conflicts continue to undermine international peace and security, while countries far removed from...
Canada urges stronger partnerships as global order faces ‘rupture’
Canada’s Foreign Minister Anita Anand warned the UN General Assembly on Saturday that the international order has entered an era of profound disruption, calling...
The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 4
From the Caribbean to the Pacific, leaders from small island States demanded climate justice, ocean protection and greater solidarity at the UN General Assembly...
Countries adopt global blueprint to tackle fast-evolving crime in digital age
Countries adopted on Saturday a new global blueprint for tackling rapidly evolving forms of crime, as the UN’s largest gathering on crime prevention and...
‘Safeguard the postwar order,’ China tells UN General Assembly
China’s Vice President, Han Zheng, urged the world to defend the postwar international order on Saturday, telling the UN General Assembly that geopolitical conflicts,...
‘Invest with Iraq’: PM sets out vision for new economic future
Iraq’s Prime Minister, Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi, said his country aims to exert its influence as an active economic power in the region, and as...
‘No one speaks on behalf of Lebanon’: PM Salam asserts State authority at UN
Lebanon’s Prime Minister, Nawaf Salam, has stressed that decisions over war and peace, and control of weapons, must rest solely with the State and...
World News in Brief: West Bank demolitions accelerate, urgent support for Sudan, Haiti diplacement, AI hub to boost gender equality
The situation in the occupied West Bank continues to deteriorate, the UN human rights office has said, pointing to the “mass destruction” of Palestinian...
Tuvalu urges decisive global action as rising seas threaten its future
Climate change remains the greatest existential threat to Tuvalu, Prime Minister Feleti Teo told the UN General Assembly on Friday, warning that the pace...
UN voices grave concern as fighting spreads across northern Ethiopia
The UN said on Friday it remains gravely concerned by the continued deterioration of the security situation across northern Ethiopia, as fighting spreads across...
‘This is not about politics. This is about people’: UN warns of impact of deadly drone strikes in Sudan 
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