A Bahrain-led resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz failed at the United Nations on Tuesday, unable to withstand opposition from Russia and China despite attempts to weaken its provisions ...

India on Thursday condemned attacks on the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which resulted in the death of three Indonesian peacekeepers against the backdrop of an Israeli ground ...

The U.S. was one of three members of the United Nations that voted against a General Assembly resolution Wednesday calling the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity.” ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a ...

A United Nations report published in Water Resources Management warns that humanity has entered an era of “water bankruptcy,” with rivers, aquifers and glaciers being depleted faster than they can ...

Nearly 200 developers, users, and companies from the MySQL ecosystem have urged Oracle in an open letter to reconsider the future governance of the open-source database. The letter was published after ...

There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen, so said Vladimir Lenin. The start of 2026 has brought too many of the latter. The US abduction of the president of a sovereign ...

France is calling for the resignation of the UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories over comments she made allegedly targeting Israel at a conference, the foreign minister said on ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in New York, on January 29, 2026. EDUARDO MUNOZ / REUTERS United Nations (UN) chief Antonio Guterres on Friday, January 30, warned that the world body ...

Hamas and other Palestinian factions in Gaza have rejected a United Nations Security Council resolution that establishes a governing board and an international stabilisation force to take over the ...

Sun, October 26, 2025 Published on Oct. 25, 2025 Published on 2025-10-25T17:14:41+07:00 ountries signed their first United Nations treaty targeting cybercrime in Hanoi on Saturday, despite opposition ...

External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday highlighted problems affecting the working of the United Nations, including decision-making that doesn’t address global priorities, its response to the ...