The UN on November 21 voted to adopt a traditional truce around the 2024 Paris Olympics despite objections from ... which was backed by 118 of the 193 UN members. Only Russia and Syria abstained.

Children in crisis amid Russia’s war in Ukraine took center stage during a UN Security Council meeting Tuesday as UN members cited numerous staggering statics and once again called on Moscow to ...

Russian forces meticulously planned the killing of Ukrainian prisoners of war at the Volnovakha correctional facility near ...

The UN has been criticized by some member states for overstepping the mandate of its Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine during a debate in the General Assembly.

What’s the UN’s new ‘Pact for the Future’, and why did Russia oppose it? Like many UN documents, it’s packed with big goals but is short on specifics about how to achieve them.

Eighty years ago Thursday (Friday in Manila), 50 countries came together in the ashes of World War II to sign the United ...

United Nations. United Nations General Assembly. Russia. The state of international security is at its most perilous in decades. Between 2004 and 2014, approximately 637,000 people died from conflict.

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly elected Germany’s former foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to be the next head of the 193-member world body in a secret-ballot vote ...

Russia was the only Security Council member that voted against the cease-fire resolution. China, Russia’s ally, supported the resolution, drafted by the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone.

On Sunday, despite Russia’s attempt to derail the vote, UN member countries approved the “Pact for the Future,” meant to reinvigorate global action to confront the world’s most pressing ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly elected Germany’s former foreign minister Annalena Baerbock to be the next head of the 193-member world body in a secret-ballot ...