Edith M. Lederer

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the opening of the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Monday, Feb. 23, 2026. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

UN chief condemns US-Israeli attacks on Iran during emergency Security Council meeting

February 28, 2026 at 4:34 p.m.

The United Nations chief condemned the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and called for an immediate return to negotiations “to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink.”

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk on the South Lawn to the White House after arriving on Marine One Monday evening, Feb. 16, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert)

UN Security Council members blast Israel’s West Bank plans on eve of Trump’s Board of Peace meeting

February 18, 2026 at 9:05 p.m.

The high-level U.N. session in New York was originally scheduled for Thursday but was moved up after President Donald Trump announced the first Board of Peace meeting for the same...

President Donald Trump holds the charter during a signing ceremony on his Board of Peace initiative at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Donald Trump’s wide ambitions for Board of Peace spark new support for the United Nations

January 30, 2026 at 4:02 p.m.

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to sidestep the United Nations through his new Board of Peace appears to have inadvertently backfired after major world powers rejected U.S. aspirations for it...

A Palestinian man carries bags of firewood after collecting them from the rubbish in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2025.(AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN approves the Trump administration plan for Gaza’s future

November 17, 2025 at 5:36 p.m.

The U.N. Security Council on Monday approved a U.S. plan for Gaza that authorizes an international stabilization force to provide security in the devastated territory and envisions a possible future...

A child plays at a shelter for families displaced by gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

US and UN sanction former Haitian security head, gang leader for aiding gang coalition

October 17, 2025 at 7:34 p.m.

The United States and the United Nations slapped sanctions on the former head of Haitian presidential security and the leader of a Haitian gang on Friday for their roles in...

In this photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Syrian Foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani, right, meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as part of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the Lotte Palace Hotel, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in New York. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

In UN address, Russian foreign minister says any aggression from Europe will be met with a ‘decisive response’

September 27, 2025 at 11:55 a.m.

Russia’s top diplomat is insisting to world leaders that Russia has no intention of attacking Europe.

Smoke and flames rise after an Israeli military strike on a building in Gaza City, Friday, Sept. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Yousef Al Zanoun)

UN assembly votes overwhelmingly to back two-state solution to Israel-Palestinian conflict

September 12, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.

The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday to support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and urge Israel to commit to a Palestinian state, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

People walk up the stairs to the site of an Israeli strike, minutes before a second strike hit the same spot, killing at least 22 people in total, including five journalists, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025. This was one of the last photos taken by journalist Mariam Dagga, who freelanced for The Associated Press and other outlets, before she walked to the site and was killed in the second strike. (AP Photo/Mariam Dagga)

Journalist Mariam Dagga’s final images show the hospital where she was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza

August 28, 2025 at 6:33 p.m.

The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.

Palestinians carry sacks of flour unloaded from a humanitarian aid convoy that reached Gaza City from the northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

What to expect, and what not to, at the UN meeting on an Israel-Palestinian two-state solution

July 28, 2025 at 6:27 a.m.

The U.N. General Assembly is bringing high-level officials together this week to promote a two-state solution to the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict.

An injured United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) worker is brought into al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following what the U.N. described as a strike in which an explosive ordnance was “dropped or fired” in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

UN to reduce staff in Gaza, blaming Israel for a strike that killed its employee

March 24, 2025 at 2:22 p.m.

The United Nations said Monday it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer from...

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