The United Nations General Assembly has elected Barham Salih, former president of Iraq and a longtime advocate for democracy ...

Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president, has been elected as the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The 193-member UN General Assembly elected him without a vote. Salih, nominated by UN ...

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected Barham Salih, a former Iraqi president who fled persecution under ...

Member States have encouraged nominating a woman while also underscoring the importance of regional diversity.

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted, by an overwhelming majority, a resolution reaffirming the Palestinian people ...

The United Nations General Assembly yet again passed an unserious and biased resolution, demonstrating the continued ...

The United Nations, in turning 80, has been berated, dismissed and libelled.  In September, US President Donald Trump took a hearty swipe at the body’s ...

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UN member states endorsed the ICJ’s findings and pressed Israel to meet its legal obligations as an occupying power.

The Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, Ambassador Riyad Mansour, welcomed the overwhelming ...

The U.N. passed the resolution on Thursday, with few countries—such as Russian ally Belarus, China and North Korea —voting ...

There are now about four hundred nuclear power plants worldwide, in over thirty countries on five continents, with sixty more ...