From a Nepal in Pain, a Young Leader Makes a Case for Climate Reparations
Balendra Shah, 36, comes to the U.N. as a sun-glassed symbol of Gen Z political power. But concerns about his style are growing at home after devastat...
Ukraine Sent Two North Korean P.O.W.s to South Korea, Zelensky Says
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said one soldier tried to kill himself when he was captured. “This is how they raise people in the North,” he ...
Australia Says OpenAI ‘Infiltrated’ Public Health Care Portal
Australia is exploring potential legal action after an artificial intelligence agent accessed nonpublic information on the country’s universal health ...
Trump Aides Seek to Jump Start Diplomacy With Iran as Crisis Widens
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that U.S. negotiators had restarted conversations about Iran’s nuclear program, but that there were no breakthroug...
Carney Says Risk of an A.I. Catastrophe Is ‘Above Zero’
In contrast to President Trump’s calls for an unfettered A.I. industry, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada called for international coordination on ...
America’s A.I. Leaders Warn U.N. of Possible Peril Absent a Global Response
Sam Altman of OpenAI and Dario Amodei of Anthropic told the Security Council that international cooperation was needed to ensure that A.I. remains und...
Canada’s Capital Bids Good Riddance to Trump Avenue as Tensions With U.S. Rise
Ottawa’s City Council decided that the street should no longer be named for President Trump, who recently signed an executive order changing Lake Onta...
After Warm Meeting With Trump, Venezuela’s Leader Is Set to Address U.N.
She will be the first head of state from her country in eight years to make a speech to the body in person, and she is likely to sound radically diffe...
Trump’s Board of Peace Lays Out 6-Month Plan for Gaza That Faces Roadblocks
The board briefed donors on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, where some world leaders have criticized Israel’s continued attacks and restri...
At Trump’s Request, Nations Are Designating Crime Groups as Terrorists
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said leaders of countries across Latin America and the Caribbean had begun making the designations. The actions could h...
Iran Will Not Be Bullied, President Masoud Pezeshkian Says in U.N. Speech
President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country would not give up its civilian nuclear program, but left the door opened for diplomacy with the United St...
India’s Election Panel Faces New Scrutiny Over Voter Roll Revisions
An explosive news report says election commission members objected to the measures that excluded millions of people from voting, which critics say fav...
Stanislas Hutin, Who Denounced Torture in France’s Algerian War, Dies at 95
He was among the first to chronicle the French force’s systematic abuse of Algerians, brutal encounters that he documented in his journal and with his...
Zelensky Is Expected to Warn Russia’s Aggression Won’t Stop at Ukraine’s Borders
President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking to convey the critical urgency of his nation’s plight to world leaders increasingly distracted by competing gl...
The largest analysis of bat genomes and fossils suggests that the first bats emerged in Europe roughly 65 million years ago and that echolocation evol...
Myanmar Has an Envoy at the United Nations. Why Is He Not Speaking?
U Kyaw Moe Tun has kept a low profile at the General Assembly for years, part of an arrangement to keep his post despite the military-backed governmen...
U.N. Live Updates: Iran’s President to Address World Leaders After Trump Threat
Masoud Pezeshkian is the first leader whose country is at war with the United States to travel to New York to address the General Assembly. President ...
At U.N. Meeting, Syria’s Leader Is Strengthened, but Faces a Difficult Test
President Ahmed al-Sharaa has improved his diplomatic standing since he last addressed the U.N. General Assembly but faces mounting domestic economic ...
The Winner of This Rivalry Gets Ice Cream. But So Does the Loser.
The competition between two popular ice cream shops in Ramallah inspires fierce loyalties, and a running joke, for lovers of cones piled high with fla...
