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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump’s rambling speech to the United Nations sparked widespread backlash on social media due to his attacks on world leaders and boasts about his own accomplishments.

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine a recently released high-priority report by the United Nations that emphasizes what ...

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.