Amid criticism over the board’s structure and broad mandate, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. defended the board, saying “a new way” was needed to address the situation in Gaza.

The US recently paid the United Nations a small fraction of the roughly $2 billion it owed to the world body, which has warned of a funding crisis.

The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including

Encircled by critics and protesters at the United Nations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders on Friday that Israel "must finish the job" against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international ...

The United Nations likes to see itself as the world's moral referee: issuing resolutions, censuring governments and setting down, in solemn language, what is and is not acceptable behaviour in a civilised society.

President Trump asked the United Nations why it exists, at his speech to the 80th annual General Assembly on Tuesday. He said during negotiations to end wars in Africa and the Middle East, "the United Nations wasn’t there for us" "That being the case ...

The United Nations issued the Trump administration yet another reminder Monday about its nearly $4 billion in unpaid contributions, an obligation that if not met could spark the “imminent financial collapse” of the international body that has led the global rules-based order since the end of the Second World War.

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