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The United Nations’ World Food Program is appealing for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan.

The U.N. Security Council has held an emergency meeting behind closed doors with the United States demanding that all 15 members strongly condemn “these heinous terrorist attacks committed by Hamas.”

The aid will help to control violent gangs in the troubled Caribbean country.

North Korea has called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “a guy with a trash-like brain” and “a diplomatic idiot” as it blasted him for using a U.N. speech to issue a warning over the North’s deepening military ties with Russia.

President Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations in New York City on Wednesday to discuss ‘integrated’ Middle East and Iran.

Zelenskyy spoke Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual top-level meeting.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks at the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday. “We will continue to stand with the brave people of Ukraine,” Biden said.

President Joe Biden used his annual address before the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to make a robust case that the world must remain united in defending Ukraine against Russian aggression.

The heat is about to be turned up on fossil fuels, the United States and President Joe Biden.

The World Food Program is warning that humanitarian funding cuts by governments are forcing the U.N. agency to drastically cut food rations to the world’s hungriest people.

Bill Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who dedicated his post-political career to working to free Americans detained overseas, has died. He was 75.

Iran has transferred five Iranian-Americans from prison to house arrest, a move supporters hope is the first move toward their eventual release.

The United Nations says it has been forced to cut food, cash payments and assistance to millions of people in many countries because of “a crippling funding crisis” that has seen its donations plummet by about half as acute hunger is hitting record levels.

U.S. first lady Jill Biden attended a flag-raising ceremony at UNESCO in Paris, marking Washington’s official reentry into the U.N. agency after a five-year hiatus.

Moscow was criticized by the U.N. and council members for attacking Ukrainian ports after pulling out of the year-old grain deal and destroying port infrastructure

Humanoid robots say they could lead more efficiently than humans, but wouldn’t take anyone’s job away and had no intention of rebelling against their creators.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in the report to the Security Council that he is “appalled” by the high number of “grave violations” against children in Ukraine in 2022.

Amy Pope of the U.S. has been elected as the next director general of the International Organization for Migration.

The United Nations agency said it cannot yet forecast the strength or duration of the El Niño later this year.

Malcolm Brogdon had quite the productive off-day this week. The Celtics guard sat down with Abby Chin to detail his experience at the UN General Assembly advocating for clean water access.