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 ...

Visitors viewing the mosaic “The Golden Rule,” based on a painting by the American artist Norman Rockwell, during a guided ...

In a recent interview at the South Korean Mission House in New York City, the country’s chargé d’affaires ambassador, Sangjin Kim, talked about Seoul’s review of Palestine’s bid for statehood and the ...

Jihan al-Taei, an Iraqi politician who has founded a new women-led party, al-Mawadda, despite facing high hurdles at every juncture. Its launching occurs amid the country’s long, uneven struggle for ...

The second is a transit from a universal organization with a membership that comprises virtually all sovereign states (there ...

For the past five decades, you have taken on a profound task: to weave your breathtaking diversity into one people,” he said ...

Women are underrepresented and misrepresented in the news globally, according to the Global Media Monitoring Project 2025 report. It revealed that only 1.8 percent of news coverage focuses on ...

Exerting extreme pressure on Iran is most likely to backfire. It did so in the case of North Korea, which withdrew from the NPT in 2003 to become the world’s ninth nuclear-weapons power. By cornering ...

Malian Foreign Affairs Minister Abdoulaye Diop, center, met with William Stevens, US deputy assistant secretary of state for West Africa and US special envoy for the Sahel, left, on July 21, 2025.

Francesca Albanese, an Italian and UN human rights expert, has been sanctioned by the United States for her work regarding the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The UN has protested the US sanctions by ...

Tawfeek Abu Erjela makes tea outside his family’s tent in a displacement camp in al-Mawasi, southern Gaza. Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, is demanding that his government ...

Mike Waltz, the United States nominee for UN envoy, was grilled by Democrats in a Senate committee hearing on July 15 for his critical role in Signalgate, but Republicans in the session took the ...