World Oct 28 UN condemns U.S. economic embargo of Cuba though more nations sit out amid Trump push By Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press
World Oct 18 Criminal networks threaten the Amazon. Indigenous leaders want the UN to act More than a dozen Indigenous representatives from Peru, Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador are participating in the Oct. 19-23 U.N. conference on transnational organized crime, known as COP13. By Steven Grattan, Associated Press
World Oct 16 Fundraising to protect key natural sites falls short ahead of UN biodiversity summit Efforts to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve the world's oceans, forests, rivers, lakes and other parts of the natural world have fallen short ahead of a key U.N. summit on biodiversity. By Michael Casey, Associated Press
World Oct 08 WATCH: Navi Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize for efforts to uphold international justice Pillay, a South African-born jurist and former U.N. human rights chief whose career has spanned from defending the rights of an imprisoned Nelson Mandela to leading a panel that found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace… By Stefanie Dazio, Jamey Keaten, Kostya Manenkov, Associated Press
World Sep 29 Who will be the UN's next secretary-general? What to know about the selection process This year’s secretary-general selection could be of particular significance because the United Nations may choose its first-ever woman leader. By Diana Roy, Council on Foreign Relations
Sep 28 Anthropic and OpenAI sound the alarm on AI safety — and seek to shape how it's controlled By Garance Burke, Associated Press Experts, analysts and former government evaluators tell The Associated Press that Anthropic and OpenAI appear with their rhetoric to be seeking public favor and to set the terms for their own safety protocols in the unregulated market. Continue reading
Sep 28 Watch 7:28 WFP official on addressing global hunger in face of wars and climate disasters By Nick Schifrin The United Nations recently announced a new executive director for the World Food Programme. Luke Lindberg was a Trump administration Agriculture Department official and inherits one of the UN's toughest jobs. Hundreds of millions around the world go hungry every… Continue watching
Sep 27 UN speakers' go-to quotes: Ancient texts, modern greats and a little Talking Heads By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press Speakers this week touched on homeland sayings, ancient texts, figures of moral authority and more — even a bit of Talking Heads (not TV pundits — the 1980s new wave band). Continue reading
Sep 26 Russia's top diplomat rejects German calls to ease off its 'dangerous' escalation toward the country By Jamey Keaten, Edith M. Lederer, Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press Lavrov was dismissive after the German and Russian foreign ministers met Saturday on the sidelines of the meeting, holding what’s believed to be the first such tête-à-tête since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Continue reading
Sep 25 WATCH: Day 4 of the 2026 United Nations General Assembly By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press The U.N. General Assembly's leader and health officials sought Friday to make sure that the lurking possibility of another worldwide disease emergency stays on the agenda. Continue reading