Iran’s mission to the United Nations said the “spirit of resistance” in Gaza will only be “strengthened” by the death of Hamas leader and October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, who was killed on Thursday by Israeli ground forces as he attempted to flee into Egypt.
A passport belonging to a U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) teacher was found on the body of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who was killed by Israeli ground forces in the Gaza city of Rafah on Thursday.
The speaker of the French Senate — the country’s second most senior figure under the constitution — said Thursday he was “astounded”.
The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (FFMV) accused the socialist regime on Tuesday of committing crimes against humanity during the violent crackdown following the fraudulent July presidential election.
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Monday said a record 123 million people have been displaced from their homes around the world – a number that has more than doubled over the past decade.
The government of India was one of a small number of “global south” nations absent on a list of signatories to a letter released this week condemning Israel for declaring the head of the United Nations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, persona non grata.
Israel issued an announcement declaring that it would turn the Jerusalem headquarters of UNRWA into a housing complex.
The United Nations Human Rights Council held its annual membership elections on Wednesday, resulting in the admission of several human rights violating regimes such as Qatar, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Bolivia.
About 200 women ages 18-22 from across Africa have been recruited to work in a factory alongside Russian vocational students.
The North Korean military announced on Wednesday that it will sever all road and rail links to South Korea and construct more fortifications on the border, deepening the chasm between the two peninsular governments.
A UN adviser has issued a report calling for sex testing to be reinstated in boxing after controversial boxers fought at the Olympics.
Haiti’s prime minister, Garry Conille, traveled to Kenya and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Saturday to plead for security assistance after a vicious gang attack on the farming town of Pont-Sonde on Thursday killed at least 70 people and displaced 6,000 more.
The Dominican Republic plans to implement an “immediate” program to deport as many as 10,000 migrants per week, mostly Haitians.
North Korea’s U.N. representative claims America’s “anti-DPRK war machine” has brought the Korean Peninsula to the brink of conflict.
Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded on Monday that the United Nations General Assembly use a 1950 resolution to override the Security Council and recommend action against Israel, including the “use of force.”
Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Valdrack Ludwing Jaentschke declared that Nicaragua is “one” with other rogue regimes around the world such as Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, and China in his ideological speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday morning.
The Iran-backed dictatorship of Bashar Assad in Syria was the first state to address the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, using the opportunity to mourn the head of the Iran-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah.
On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield reacted to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accusing the United Nations of antisemitism and unfair treatment of Israel by stating that there is “an unfair
Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bouhabib blamed Israel for “war crimes” without mentioning Hamas or Hezbollah at the United Nations.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved Friday’s airstrike on Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, from his hotel room in New York City prior to his speech to the United Nations General Assembly.
“In this swamp of antisemitic bile, there’s an automatic majority willing to demonize Israel on anything,” Netanyahu noted.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas demanded Israel be stripped of membership in the United Nations in his address to the 2024 General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed China’s peace proposals as insincere and even treacherous at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday, insisting only his own proposals can bring “real and just peace” to his people by ending Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion.
Britain’s left-wing Prime Minister’s own ministers struggle to keep on message, laying on criticism of Trump as he hopes to secure a meeting.
The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, offered the U.N. General Assembly a succinct speech on Tuesday comprised of two parts: a victory lap on the overwhelming success of his campaign against criminal gangs, and a warning from “a friend” that the current trajectory of the Western world will lead to a “new dark ages of humanity.”
Appeal made to U.N. Security Council and “global south” nations to force Russia to peace, accusing Moscow of targeting nuclear facilities.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called for increased international effort to combat human trafficking networks engaging in child sex slavery and other forms of human bondage during her address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday to attack Israel on behalf of Iran’s terrorist clients in Hamas – an unsurprising, but perhaps slightly disappointing, tirade from an Iranian second-in-command who billed himself as a more compassionate, reformist leader.
Argentine President Javier Milei used his debut speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to deliver an enthusiastic condemnation of “globalism and the moral posturing of the woke agenda” and warn that the U.N. flagship Agenda 2030 is a threat to global freedom.
President Joe Biden delivered what might have been his last major international address at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, acknowledging that the world is a more chaotic place but sounding a note of hope.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spent over half of his very lengthy address to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Tuesday criticizing Israel for its war against the terrorists of Hamas and Hezbollah. Erdogan accused the Israelis of genocide, compared them to Nazi Germany, and demanded the U.N. authorize “coercive measures against Israel” to halt the war in Gaza.
King Abdullah II of Jordan rejected at the U.N. the possibility of Jordan taking in Palestinians fleeing war.
Leftist President of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defended the censorship of anti-globalists at the U.N. General Assembly.
The repressive communist government of Cuba held an event this weekend in New York under the guise of strengthening ties to the global Cuban diaspora – which exists almost entirely as a result of the regime’s human rights atrocities – in which it encouraged Cubans abroad to “participate in the economic development of the country.”
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres complains that growing distrust between major powers is getting in the way of climate cooperation.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held an event in New York on Sunday for thousands of Indians living in the United States.
President of Argentina Javier Milei arrived in New York in the late evening hours of Saturday for a brief visit to the United States in anticipation of addressing the United Nations General Assembly, reportedly on Tuesday.
Monday marked the eve of the United Nations’ General Assembly’s “general debate,” a unique global event in which the world’s heads of government descend on New York City and receive a platform to discuss any topic of their choosing.
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution Wednesday that effectively bars Israel from self-defense in any of the territory it captured in a defensive war in 1967, including in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem.
Iran’s self-proclaimed “moderate” President Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to visit New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly.
