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

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.

People have been asking “What if …” forever. Over the next few months, Al Jazeera will explore some of the biggest challenges of our time and ask leading experts: “What if …” Established 80 years ago in October, the United Nations has become a ...

UNITED NATIONS — The head of the United Nations warned the gathered leaders of nations Tuesday that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are driving modern civilization toward “a powder keg that risks engulfing the world” — the latest in an ...

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.

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

At the Crimean resort town of Yalta in the winter of 1945, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to plan for a “United Nations organization.” Roosevelt’s health was ...

Trump sits down with Middle East leaders, calling it his "most important meeting" The president began meeting with Middle East leaders shortly after 4 p.m., and said it was a "very important meeting having to do with Gaza." The president is sitting down ...

Nearly 200 countries convened by the United Nations approved a milestone plan to ramp up renewable energy and transition away from coal, oil and gas. By Brad Plumer and Max Bearak Reporting from the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates For ...

On 26 June 1945, official representatives of 50 countries, meeting in San Francisco, United States, signed the Charter of the United Nations, forming the world’s premier international organization, dedicated to “saving succeeding generations from the ...

The United Nations group that clears explosives from conflict zones tells NPR it has not started major clearing operations in Gaza, because Israel and Hamas have not yet agreed on the terms for disarmament of the territory.