U.N. General Assembly

• UN to vote on suspending Russia from human rights council over Bucha killings

  The U.N. General Assembly will vote Thursday on whether to suspend Russia from the U.N.'s premier human rights body. The move was initiated by the United States.

  World

  Apr 6
  
• Donald Trump heads into UN General Assembly speech amid political turmoil at home

  Trump is to address the General Assembly on Tuesday morning and will chair a meeting Wednesday of the U.N. Security Council on the topic of counterproliferation.

  World

  Sep 25, 2018
  
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• Trump to again address dangers of North Korea during UN speech

  As he begins the sequel to his stormy U.N. debut, President Donald Trump will again confront the dangers posed by North Korea's nuclear threat, though its shadow may appear somewhat less ominous than a year ago.

  World

  Sep 24, 2018
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• Myanmar’s leader skips U.N. General Assembly, amid violence in country

  Myanmar's leader has canceled plans to attend the U.N. General Assembly, with her country drawing international criticism for violence that has driven at least 370,000 ethnic Rohingya Muslims from the country in less than three weeks.

  World

  Sep 13, 2017
• UN General Assembly demands immediate truce in Syria, end to siege on Aleppo

  Thirty-six countries abstained in the vote on the Canadian-drafted resolution on the nearly six-year Syrian conflict.

  World

  Dec 9, 2016
• Barack Obama, in final speech to the UN General Assembly, calls for global course correction

  Standing before the United Nations for the last time as president, Barack Obama will reassure foreign leaders that the world is better equipped to tackle its challenges than at almost any point in history despite a cascade of harrowing crises that seem devoid of viable solutions.

  Politics

  Sep 20, 2016
• World Humanitarian Day: Ban Ki-moon says 130 million people need assistance to survive

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a message on World Humanitarian Day that a record 130 million people depend on assistance to survive, a staggering number that would comprise the tenth most populous nation on earth.

  Entertainment

  Aug 19, 2016
• Donald Trump made ‘a lot of money’ in deal with former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his Bedouin tent

  The presumptive Republican nominee was talking about a bizarre incident in 2009, when Gadhafi was in desperate search of a place to pitch his Bedouin-style tent during a visit to New York for a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly.

  Politics

  Jun 6, 2016
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• United Nations takes historic step to open selection of new UN chief

  Under the U.N. Charter, the secretary-general is chosen by the 193-member General Assembly on the recommendation of the 15-member Security Council.

  World

  Apr 12, 2016
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• Syria’s crisis looms over UN gathering of world leaders

  The U.N. secretary-general for the first time Monday called for the situation in Syria to be referred to the International Criminal Court, as world leaders including President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin were addressing a global gathering with conflict at centre stage.

  World

  Sep 28, 2015