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Niger junta accuses UN chief of 'obstructing' their participation in General Assembly

Niger's coup leaders accused the head of the United Nations on Friday of obstructing their participation in the body's General Assembly, saying it was "likely to undermine any effort to end the crisis in our country".

France 24

As the world's problems grow more challenging, the head of the United Nations gets bleaker

At the annual meeting of world leaders last year, the United Nations chief sounded a global alarm about the survival of humanity and the planet

The Independent UK

Call upon Pakistan to take credible and verifiable action against 26/11 perpetrators: India at UNGA

First Secretary in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN Petal Gahlot exercised India’s Right of Reply in the UNGA after Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar ul Haq Kakar raised the Kashmir issue in his address

The Hindu

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Yemen's southern leader renews calls for separate state at UN

The president of the Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council said in an interview that he will prioritize the creation of a separate country in negotiations with their rivals, the Houthi rebels

The Independent UK

Netanyahu: Iran’s Threat A Blessing As Israel Strengthens Ties With Arab States

Israeli Prime Minister highlights the unintended positive consequences of the common threat posed by Iran

Zenger

Sudanese army chief warns UN about risk of regional conflict

Sudan's army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan told the United Nations General Assembly that months of war could spill over to the entire region. He urged international pressure on the paramilitary unit his side is fighting.

Radio France Internationale

Want a place on the UN stage? Leaders of divided nations must first get past this gatekeeper

It’s one of the United Nations’ more obscure bodies, with no space to call its own within the riverside headquarters

The Independent UK

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China, at UN, presents itself as a member of the Global South as alternative to a Western model

China is telling assembled world leaders at the United Nations that it considers itself part of the Global South

The Independent UK

The U.N. system is 'sclerotic and hobbled' and needs urgent reform, top European Union official says

A top European Union official says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exposed an urgent need to reform the “sclerotic and hobbled” global decision making at the United Nations

The Independent UK

The U.N. plan to improve the world by 2030 is failing. Does that make it a failure?

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals — starting with an end to poverty — were set in 2015. At the halfway mark, the world is reeling from crises. Progress is stunted. Do the goals still help?

WEKU

Behind all the speechmaking at the UN lies a basic, unspoken question: Is the world governable?

At the United Nations, “multilateralism” is always the goal, however fragmented and complex

The Independent UK

UN chief warns of 'gates of hell' in climate summit, but carbon polluting nations stay silent

The United Nations chief says Earth is facing a hellish problem in climate change and its leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb carbon emissions that’s causing it

The Independent UK

UN Police Detain Israeli Ambassador

The Israeli Ambassador was released with the assistance of Israel's security and diplomatic teams.

Zenger

Jordanian King At UNGA: Palestinians Deprived Of Right To ‘fulfill Their Own National Identity’

The region will keep suffering until the world helps lift the shadow of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in Middle East

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The Independent UK

UN urges Afghanistan's Taliban government to stop torture and protect the rights of detainees

The United Nations says it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by Afghanistan's Taliban authorities during arrests and detentions of people

The Independent UK

Japan's Kishida, at UN, tries to get the global nuclear disarmament effort back on track

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed to lead the effort to put the struggling global nuclear disarmament back on track

France 24

Saudi Arabia praises 'positive results' of peace talks with Yemen's Houthi rebels

Saudi Arabia on Wednesday praised the “positive results” of talks with Yemen's Houthi rebels after they visited the kingdom for peace talks, though Riyadh released few details on their negotiations to end the war tearing at the Arab world's poorest nation.

The Independent UK

Saudi Arabia praises 'positive results' after Yemen's Houthi rebels visit kingdom for peace talks

Saudi Arabia has praised the “positive results” of talks with Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they visited the kingdom for peace talks

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The Independent UK

Israeli ambassador spirited away by UN security after mounting protest during speech by Iranian president

UN says Israeli official wasn’t ‘detained,’ despite reports

The Independent UK

El Salvador's leader, criticized internationally for gang crackdown, tells UN it was the right thing

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has trumpeted the success of his gang crackdown during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly

The Independent UK

Live Updates: World leaders convene for Day 1 of the UN General Assembly high-level meeting

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The Independent UK

Ukraine lawyers insist that UN's top court has jurisdiction to hear Kyiv's case against Russia

Ukraine is insisting that the United Nations’ highest court has jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Moscow abused the genocide convention to justify launching its devastating invasion last year

The Independent UK

Ukraine’s Zelensky questions why Russia still has place at UN ahead of New York address

War-time leader has not confirmed if he will stick around for Russian minister Sergei Lavrov’s remarks

The Guardian - AU

Air defence is Ukraine’s ‘greatest need’, US secretary of defence says, as he calls for allies to ‘dig deep’ – as it happened

Lloyd Austin urges allies to donate whatever air defence munitions they can. This live blog is closed

France 24

🔴 Live: Ukraine urges world court to impose 'reparations' over Russia war

Ukraine on Tuesday said the International Court of Justice should impose reparations on Russia for its "war of annihilation", arguing that international law itself was at stake. Earlier, the western Ukrainian city of Lviv was rocked by blasts with local officials saying the Russian air attack caused a major fire…

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