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

People have been asking “What if …” forever. Over the next few months, Al Jazeera will explore some of the biggest challenges of our time and ask leading experts: “What if …” Established 80 years ago in October, the United Nations has become a ...

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.

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Trump sits down with Middle East leaders, calling it his "most important meeting" The president began meeting with Middle East leaders shortly after 4 p.m., and said it was a "very important meeting having to do with Gaza." The president is sitting down ...

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.

On 26 June 1945, official representatives of 50 countries, meeting in San Francisco, United States, signed the Charter of the United Nations, forming the world’s premier international organization, dedicated to “saving succeeding generations from the ...