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68 firms added to UN blacklist for alleged complicity in rights violations in Israeli settlements

By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

The United Nations has added nearly 70 more companies to a blacklist of firms from 11 countries that it says are complicit in violating Palestinian human rights through their business ties to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.

UN Security Council rejects Russia and China's resolution to delay sanctions on Iran

By Farnoush Amiri, Stephanie Liechtenstein, Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press

The U.N. Security Council on Friday rejected another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program a day before the deadline and after Western countries claimed that weeks of meetings failed to result in…

WATCH: Day 4 of the 2025 United Nations General Assembly

By Joseph Krauss, Jennifer Peltz, Adam Geller, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses world leaders at the United Nations on Friday, it will be at the helm of a country that is increasingly being treated as a pariah, even by some of its longtime allies.

Drug enforcement is rarely a focus of the U.N. General Assembly. This year is different

By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press

Barbs between President Donald Trump and Colombian President Gustavo Petro laid bare, on global diplomacy's biggest stage, the world's wide and pointed differences over how to deal with drugs.

WATCH: Facing global isolation, Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu addresses U.N. General Assembly

By Jennifer Peltz, Adam Geller, Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

Responding to countries' recent decisions to recognize Palestinian statehood, Netanyahu said it would encourage terrorism against Jews and others.

Al-Sharaa promises a new Syria free of its 'wretched past'

By Ali Rogin

At the U.N. General Assembly in New York, a man who one year ago had a U.S. bounty on his head strode to the center of the world stage as the President of Syria. Ahmed Al-Sharaa fought the Assad regime…

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China announces new climate goal to cut its world-leading emissions

By Seth Borenstein, Melina Walling, Associated Press

The world’s largest carbon polluting nation has announced a new climate fighting goal to cut emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035.

U.N. peacekeepers say Israeli drone crashed into their headquarters in southern Lebanon

By Associated Press

The U.N. peacekeeping force in south Lebanon says an Israeli drone has crashed into their headquarters near Israel's border, but didn't cause any casualties.

WATCH: Syrian president addresses U.N., the first leader from his country to do so in nearly six decades

By Jennifer Peltz, Associated Press

The Assad family dynasty’s autocratic, repressive 50-year rule in Syria abruptly collapsed in December, when then-President Bashar Assad was ousted in a lightning insurgent offensive led by al-Sharaa.

WATCH: Iran's Masoud Pezeshkian blasts U.S. and Israeli attacks in address to U.N. General Assembly

By Farnoush Amiri, Associated Press

His comments at the General Assembly are the first time he has spoken in a global forum since the 12-day Israel-Iran war over the summer that saw the assassination of many of the Islamic Republic’s highest military and political leaders.