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The essayist, a former US ambassador to the UN for management and reform, writes that next week world leaders will gather for the General Assembly’s annual high-level debate, and that despite the ...

Visitors viewing the mosaic “The Golden Rule,” based on a painting by the American artist Norman Rockwell, during a guided tour of UN headquarters. The words “Do unto others as you would have them do ...

President Emmanuel Macron of France led the two-state solution forum, with Saudi Arabia, recognizing Palestine as a state, Sept. 22, 2025. He called the step a path to peace, given the alternative to ...

Informal dialogues with candidates for UN secretary-general, 2016. On the screen is Mogens Lykketoft, a Dane and president of the General Assembly at the time. The five permanent members of the UN ...

Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, delivered his speech to the General Assembly high-level week on Sept. 25 by video from his base in the West Bank, calling Israeli’s retaliatory ...

Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s new leader, is scheduled to speak at the annual opening session of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 24, amid such other heads of state that day as Volodymyr Zelensky of ...

The emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, fought against recent verbal and physical attacks by Israel and sought to rebuild the image of his Mideast country as crucial to regional and international ...

At the United Nations, a global platform was introduced to shape rules to guide the use of AI, ensuring that it “serves people,” said Secretary-General António Guterres, above, at the launching, Sept.

Israel’s intensified ground incursion in Gaza City is forcing Palestinians to evacuate to the south, trudging for hours without food, water or shelter and no safe place to park. Tents are scarce, with ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky devoted most of his UN General Assembly speech, delivered on Sept. 24, focusing on drone warfare and ending the global arms race, even as his own country is ...

The General Assembly commemorated the UN’s 80th year on the evening of Sept. 19 with a program of music and speeches titled “A Living Legacy.” The essayists warn that the contest to select a secretary ...