By Kanishka Singh and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON, Feb 19 (Reuters) - On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump will preside over the first meeting of his "Board of Peace," an initiative that has drawn praise from Trump allies but also criticism from countries worried that it will undermine the United Nations.

The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including

Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that Israel "must finish the job" against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international ...

President Trump asked the United Nations why it exists, at his speech to the 80th annual General Assembly on Tuesday. He said during negotiations to end wars in Africa and the Middle East, "the United Nations wasn’t there for us" "That being the case ...

Gavin Phelan, from Cape Elizabeth, created an app to alert deaf and hard of hearing people to alarms and gunshots.

Although the United Nations was created in 1945 with the goal of ending war and solving other global problems, in many cases the international organization has been unable to fulfill its mission. Since that time,

The behind-the-scenes journey from draft to deal raises uncomfortable questions about whom the UN truly serves, and for what purpose.

It was no surprise, therefore, that Albanese-Goebbels participated in the hatefest with the chief Hamas operative and the spokesman for the murderous Iranian regime. She was exactly where she belonged: among Jihadis, terrorists, murderers and others who want to commit another genocide of the Jewish people. This should not surprise anyone.

The United Nations likes to see itself as the world's moral referee: issuing resolutions, censuring governments and setting down, in solemn language, what is and is not acceptable behaviour in a civilised society.