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At a U.N. Security Council meeting on the aid crisis in Gaza, envoys from the United States, France and Britain were among dozens of speakers denouncing the Israeli legislation. The […]

Hours after Israeli forces carried out strikes on residential buildings in Lebanon in an attempt to kill Hezbollah’s top commanders, diplomats and foreign ministers warned that the Middle East was [...]

In his fourth and final address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Biden reflected on the conflicts he witnessed during his career in public service, and warned on Tuesday [...]

António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, warned that “a powder keg risks engulfing the world” as he urged world leaders gathered for the General Assembly on Tuesday [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Beginning Tuesday, world leaders will discuss three wars, climate change, rising sea levels and proposals to expand representation on the Security Council. When the United Nations General [...]

Secretary General António Guterres’s public comments came just before Gazan health authorities announced the first case of the disease in the enclave in many years. The United Nations secretary general, [...]

A marked convoy run by UNICEF, the United Nations’ relief agency for children, came under fire in Gaza on Tuesday while on its way to pick up five children as [...]

The U.N. Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-backed cease-fire plan for the Gaza Strip after Russia opted not to block it, adding extra heft to a growing international push [...]

The report will be presented to members of the Security Council next week and released publicly on June 18, the U.N. said. The United Nations will add Israel as well […]

The U.S. Central Command said its forces had destroyed four aerial drones and two anti-ship missiles in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Friday, as well as a Houthi patrol boat […]

The International Atomic Energy Agency acted in the face of Iran’s refusal to allow experts to examine its stepped-up nuclear enrichment program. The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog agency on Wednesday [...]

The United Nations said on Tuesday that it was struggling to maintain its operations in Gaza because of Israel’s expanding military offensive in Rafah, including a devastating strike on a [...]

Any use of U.N. forces would have to be approved by the Security Council. “There first has to be peace to keep,' said a U.N. spokesman. The Arab League called [...]

It was the first time an international U.N. employee had been killed in Gaza since the war began last October. The United Nations said that a staff member was killed [...]

The vote comes after the United States last month vetoed a Security Council measure granting full U.N. membership to a Palestinian state. The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly [...]

No trucks have entered the Gaza Strip since Sunday, according to the U.N. The United Nations has warned that Israel’s military incursion into Rafah and closure of border crossings is [...]

The United States blocked the U.N. Security Council on Thursday from moving forward on a Palestinian bid to be recognized as a full member state at the United Nations, quashing [...]

Iran launched more than 200 drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles toward Israel on Saturday evening, the Israeli military said, in retaliation for a deadly Israeli airstrike on the Iranian [...]

The U.N. Security Council agreed on Monday to take up a Palestinian bid for full membership in the United Nations, which would amount to a recognition of statehood, but prospects [...]

The United Nations experts also said that they had “clear and convincing information” that hostages seized in Israel on Oct. 7 had been sexually abused in Gaza, and that they [...]

The secretary general of the United Nations warned all actors involved in escalating tensions in the Middle East to “step back from the brink” and “consider the horrendous human cost [...]

Aid groups in Gaza quickly criticized a new U.N. Security Council resolution as too weak to help alleviate the vast suffering in the territory, where hundreds of thousands of people [...]

After nearly a week of intense negotiations and days of delayed votes, the United States was in talks with Egypt on Thursday to find a compromise U.N. Security Council resolution [...]

About three-quarters of the body’s members voted in favor of the nonbinding resolution. The result underscored the isolation of Israel and the United States. The U.N. General Assembly demanded an [...]

The veto came amid a warning that ''civil order is breaking down'' in Gaza, and a day after the Biden administration warned that Israel's military had not done enough to [...]

The veto came amid a warning that “civil order is breaking down” in Gaza, and a day after the Biden administration warned that Israel’s military had not done enough to [...]

The move was a major step by the secretary general, António Guterres, in his efforts to stop the war, which he described as a humanitarian disaster that threatened international security. [...]

Staff members accused Ms. McCain, the W.F.P.’s leader, of not leveraging her position to speak out against the suffering of Palestinian civilians, and some have called for her removal. As [...]

International pressure built on Tuesday for Israel and Hamas to extend a temporary cease-fire into an enduring halt to the war in Gaza, as China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, warned [...]

The entire population of Gaza — 2.2 million, with about half of them being children — is in need of food assistance and at risk of starvation because of a [...]

About 50,000 women are currently pregnant in Gaza and about one in 10 is due in the coming month, meaning an average of 180 births a day can be expected [...]

The lack of fuel, used to operate the fork lifts that unload the goods and the trucks that deliver them, is imperiling the only lifeline for the 2.2 million people [...]

Israel said it struck more than 400 targets in Gaza in its broadest single-day assault of the conflict. Palestinian officials said more than 700 were killed, the highest one-day toll [...]

The secretary general of the United Nations said on Tuesday that the attacks by Hamas that left 1,400 people dead in Israel on Oct. 7 were “appalling” but did not [...]

Israel said it struck more than 400 targets in Gaza in its broadest single-day assault of the conflict. Palestinian officials said more than 700 were killed, the highest one-day toll [...]

Palestinians in Gaza have struggled to obtain a range of basic necessities during the Israeli bombardment of their territory in retaliation for terror attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, but [...]

The United Nations and others condemned the call for more than a million people to leave northern Gaza, and Israel softened its initial 24-hour timetable. Israel called for the evacuation [...]

Byline: Farnaz Fassihi Almost everyone agrees on the need for changes, but there is little agreement on what to do and nearly insuperable hurdles to doing anything. For more than [...]

Almost everyone agrees on the need for changes, but there is little agreement on what to do and nearly insuperable hurdles to doing anything. For more than a week, world [...]

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said the United Nations had been hamstrung in its efforts to prevent conflicts like the war ravaging his country and called for Russia to be [...]

Byline: Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Ivan Nechepurenko, Liz Alderman and Farnaz Fassihi Moscow, which has repeatedly complained that the U.N.-brokered agreement is one-sided in Ukraine's favor, said it could return to [...]

Security Council members said they feared that a new technology might prove a major threat to world peace. The U.N. Security Council for the first time held a session on [...]

Under a previous arrangement, the U.N. and other aid agencies had Security Council approval to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s northern areas. That agreement, in place since 2014, fell apart [...]

The top humanitarian official for the United Nations on Friday defended the agency’s response to flooding caused by the collapse of a major dam in Ukraine, saying that the organization’s [...]

As Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, chaired a Security Council meeting on Monday at the United Nations, he faced rebuke from Western members and the U.N.’s top official over [...]

Fierce fighting has trapped people in the capital, Khartoum, and the United States says it is “conducting prudent planning” to get diplomatic staff members out. RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — [...]

The United Nations sent a written complaint on Tuesday to the U.S. government expressing its concerns about American surveillance of the private communications of Secretary General António Guterres and other [...]

Russia had made it clear that a Kremlin official accused of war crimes related to Ukrainian children would be addressing a Council meeting on Ukrainian children. Russia’s presidency of the [...]

After last week’s deadly earthquake, many pregnant women in Syria have been sheltering in cardboard tents without access to bathrooms or showers. And many hospitals and maternity clinics do not [...]

Three days after an earthquake devastated war-ravaged Syria, the United Nations said on Wednesday that very little aid had trickled to government-held areas and that it had been unable to [...]