Perhaps the words of Samuel Beckett frame the challenges of stabilization best for Gaza: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” In Gaza, however, failure cannot be ...

An overnight attack on Nov. 14 against Kyiv killed four people and injured at least 29 civilians from Russia’s latest massive ...

The UN General Assembly is to elect new judges to the organization’s Dispute and Appeals Tribunal, respectively, on Nov. 17.

Climate change is widening the gender gap. It is erasing decades of hard-won progress for gender equality. Most people ...

• Results of PassBlue’s Survey: ‘Vote for the Next UN Secretary-General’, by PassBlue. Michelle Bachelet, ex-two-time president of Chile, won the informal readers’ poll. The results were reported ...

“Decides that Ahmed al-Sharaa, included on the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctions List as Ahmad Hussain Al-Sharaa (QDi.317) ...

United States President Trump may want to see a ceasefire in Sudan, but Washington’s close ties with the United Arab Emirates are keeping the administration from being more assertive in trying to stop ...

According to the report, “Well-funded anti-rights opposition movements that are polarizing politics and sweeping elections around the globe, claiming a number of feminist foreign policy governments in ...

On the Gaza front, Waltz of the US convened a private meeting on Nov. 5 at the US mission to the UN to rally support for a new Security Council draft resolution meant to stabilize the Palestinian ...

An international human rights organization has released a report documenting how China, Russia and a handful of other countries are using their control of UN budget decisions to derail the human ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres, center, about to hold a global town hall session with UN personnel, March 27, 2025. A US representative at the UN has recently criticized the rate of UN salaries ...

The UN General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2025. The essayists say the debate over the role of the United States in the UN has become a “proxy for larger disputes about sovereignty, funding and influence.” ...