In his debut at the United Nations, President Donald Trump told the organization it was failing to live up to its potential and urged the organization to take a “bold stand” with a more clearly defined global mission.
A United Nations human rights group has called on Iran to immediately release two Iranian-Americans, Siamak Namazi and his 81-year-old father Bagher Namazi, describing their imprisonment as a violation of international law.
President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States will walk away from the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers if it deems that the UN’s atomic agency is not tough enough in monitoring it.
The wife of ousted Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has won a parliament seat in a closely watched by-election caused when Sharif stepped down in July, unofficial results suggest.
Global leaders will gather at the United Nations on September 18 as the debate session of the world body's General Assembly officially begins.
Pressure increased against plans by Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq to hold an independence referendum, with the United Nations chief and Iranian leaders adding their voices to opponents of the vote.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have met in New York ahead of the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, with Ukraine and Syria key topics of discussion, officials said
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that his country would react strongly to any "wrong move" by the United States on the 2015 nuclear deal.
German architect and city planner Albert Speer Jr., the son of Adolf Hitler's favorite architect and close associate, has died at age 83.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi says Kurdish leaders planning to hold an independence referendum are "playing with fire" and said Baghdad was ready to intervene with force if violence erupts as a result of the vote.
UN human rights special rapporteur Idriss Jazairy has rejected allegations that his conclusions from a fact-finding mission to Russia in April were influenced by a $50,000 donation to his mandate from the Russian Federation.
Russia will urge the United States to stick with the Iran nuclear deal at a meeting of the deal's signatories on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly session next week, Russia's UN envoy has said.
China and Russia on September 15 rejected a call from the United States to take more "direct actions" to deter North Korea's nuclear and missile tests, and said it is up to Washington to defuse the threat through negotiations.
Lawmakers in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region have approved a plan to stage an independence referendum that is opposed by Baghdad and neighboring countries and has raised Western concerns that the vote could stoke fresh tensions in the region.
Negotiators from the three countries sponsoring Syria peace talks in Astana, Kazakhstan, say they have reached an agreement to set up de-escalation zones in Syria for six months.
London’s Metropolitan Police say they are investigating a fire and reported explosion on a London Underground train in southwest London on September 15 as a “terrorist incident.”
A leading Democrat on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations committee says Turkey’s recent purchase of antiaircraft missile systems from Russia may have violated a U.S. law that requires automatic sanctions to be imposed against Ankara.
A senior Iranian military official has accused Washington of “seeking excuses” to tear up the nuclear deal Tehran reached with six world powers by demanding inspections of Iranian military sites.
The United States called on China and Russia to take "direct actions" aimed at reining in North Korea after it launched a second ballistic missile over Japan on September 15.
Russia's Defense Ministry says two Russian submarines in the eastern Mediterranean Sea have fired cruise missiles at Islamic State (IS) militant targets in Syria.
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