“A Digital Future For All” event during the UN’s Summit of the Future, Sept. 21, 2025. The essayist, a former communications director for the world body, warns about its growing reliance on AI in its ...

President William Ruto of Kenya, center, touring new offices at the UN’s compound in Nairobi, July 2025. The UN is expanding ...

The essayists write that at the seventh session of the UN Environment Assembly conference this week, to be held in Nairobi, ...

That is why the time has come — yet again — to elect a woman, a woman from Eastern Europe, as the next secretary-general.

In this exclusive, wide-ranging video interview with PassBlue, Slovenian Ambassador Samuel Zbogar to the United Nations reflects on his country’s two-year term as an elected member of the Security ...

UN restrooms in the Secretariat building at headquarters in New York City. The organization will no longer stock restrooms in ...

US Customs and Border Protection officers processing travelers arriving on international flights at the Baltimore/Washington airport, Feb. 27, 2025. The Trump administration’s travel restrictions will ...

Marat Gabidullin, a former Wagner Group operative, in Syria, where he fought with the Russian militia at the height of the war there. He has written a memoir of his experience in Wagner, going on ...

Ambassador Michael Imran Kanu of Sierra Leone chairs the UN Security Council in November. He said that his country, nearing the end of its two-year term, has been ambitious in defending international ...

The Israeli Knesset marks National Memorial Day for the “October 7 Disaster and Swords of Iron War,” Knesset Plaza, Oct. 16, 2025. The essayist focuses on numerous “long-overdue questions” about ...

Twelve of the 15 members of the UN Security Council approved a complex draft text to create a Gang Suppression Force for Haiti, and three members abstained, above: China, Pakistan and Russia, citing ...

A resident at a church in Goris, Armenia, 2023. When war hit the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region in Azerbaijan that year and 100,000 or so ethnic Armenians from the area streamed through the small ...