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It is for the United States to choose whether to end its war in Iran as Tehran does not wish to continue fighting, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Fox News in an interview aired Thursday. Pezeshkian took a defiant stand at the UN Wednesday, for which he travelled to New York, telling the world that Iran would not "bend at the knee" to Washington Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday warned that the Palestinian people were facing “one of the most dangerous phases in their history” in a speech at the United Nations recorded in advance as the Palestinian delegation was denied US visas by Washington. Addressing the UN General Assembly’s annual debate, Abbas accused Israel of waging a “genocidal war” in Gaza and “fragmenting” the occupied West Bank through the expansion of settlements, warning that “settler terrorism” was on the...
The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic.
The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people – by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing. “If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole,” said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: “We could lose control of the future to AI.” Both said the countries of...
President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Moscow at the United Nations on Wednesday that Ukraine would strike back and make the coming winter deeply painful for Russia, if the two sides cannot agree a truce on energy attacks before the cold sets in. Ukraine and its allies are racing to secure limited agreements on energy infrastructure and Black Sea shipping before winter, fearing renewed Russian strikes on power and heating facilities, while Moscow continues to show little interest in wider...
Delegations from across the world attended the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Turkish leader says UN has been forced into 'dysfunction' and was 'bleeding out' in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan.
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has to decide whether to make a deal with Iran or "annihilate" the country, in a bombastic speech to the United Nations that appeared tailored to war-weary American voters
Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva sent a thinly veiled message to Donald Trump in a speech at the United Nations, warning foreign countries to stay out of October’s presidential election.
Every country at the UN gets a vote. But five countries have a power the other 188 don’t: the power of veto in the UNSC.
Washington justifies the attacks as necessary to halt the flow of lethal drugs into the US.
UN expert says US forces have killed 223 people in 68 attacks in the Caribbean and the Pacific in the past year.
Every country at the United Nations gets a vote. But five countries have a power the other 188 don’t.
Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet ends her bid to be the first woman to lead the United Nations.
United Nations says 22 million people need humanitarian aid as conflict intensifies.
UN-backed human rights experts say the US committed possible war crimes when it launched two strikes.
Tokyo, Sept. 15 (Jiji Press)--A cross-party group of Japanese lawmakers has urged Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to express support for the International Criminal Court in her address during the general debate at the U.N. General Assembly session Sept. 22. The Nonpartisan Parliamentary Association for Reconsidering Human Rights Diplomacy handed a written recommendation concerning U.S. sancti...
Milei’s General Assembly travel and a 23 September New York forum are confirmed. A Trump meeting on the Falklands is reported by one outlet only. The post What Is Actually Confirmed About Milei’s United Nations Trip appeared first on The Rio Times.
On September 4, 2026, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 27 as the International Day for the Elimination of Child, Early and Forced Marriage. Child rights activists weigh in on what it takes, particularly in the online space, to counter the evil of child marriage
The United Nations is calling for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, as drone attacks and the destruction of healthcare facilities deepen an already devastating humanitarian crisis.
Beijing has recommended the largest-ever cohort of civil servants from Hong Kong to take on roles in United Nations agencies this year, expecting the deployments to broaden their global perspective and strengthen the city’s position as a bridge between China and the international community. The batch of 16 officers sent under the UN Junior Professional Officer (JPO) scheme came from 13 grades and departments, including customs, police and the city’s anti-corruption agency. The number surpassed...
Even as rescuers search for the thousands still missing in Nepal after catastrophic flooding that killed 1,250 people, the nation’s leaders face a second immense challenge – how to pay for recovery and rebuilding. The tab is expected to come to at least US$5 billion, an enormous sum for one of Asia’s poorest countries, and the fund it is hoping to tap is new, underfunded and untested. Nepal is seeking compensation for climate change-related damages from a United Nations fund set up to help...
O Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE) irá liberar, a partir de amanhã (7), Dia da Independência do Brasil, no site de sua loja, o acesso aos mapas-múndi do Brasil lançados de 2024 a 2026. A versão mais recente foi aprovada globalmente, na última sexta-feira (4), na Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas (ONU). A reunião é a oportunidade para que chefes de Estado e governo dos Estados-membros debatam tópicos mundiais e proponham deliberações que, embora não tenham força de lei, são dotadas de relevante carga política. No caso dos mapas-múndi, a votação foi encerrada com 164 países favoráveis à mudança e utilização da projeção Equal Earth, que se aproxima dos mapas disseminados pelo IBGE. O único voto contrário foi dos Estados Unidos. Seis abstenções foram registradas. Embora somente agora a pauta tenha ganhado destaque na assembleia, a reivindicação por uma representação mais fidedigna à realidade, com proporções corretas, é antiga. A fundamentação da proposta aprovada é resultado de um esforço da União Africana (UA), algo coerente, já que o continente africano é, desde o século 16, diminuído nos mapas-múndi adotados, assim como é a América do Sul. Como referência daquela época até a atualidade, é usado um feito pelo cartógrafo Gerardus Mercator, para navegação e que espelha a percepção dos colonizadores. Regiões como a América do Norte e a Groenlândia nele aparecem ampliadas, sem corresponder às dimensões que têm concretamente. "A adoção da projeção Equal Earth pela ONU reforça a posição da Diretoria de Geociências do IBGE de acompanhar de forma contínua as inovações cartográficas e de adotar representações do mundo que dialoguem com demandas sociais por mais equilíbrio e justiça na forma de mapear o nosso planeta", argumenta Maria do Carmo Bueno, Diretora de Geociências do IBGE.