The Latest Breaking News from General Assembly

GLIMPSES: At United Nations, boats safeguard current affairs

U.S. Coast Guard boats are a familiar presence during the U.N. General Assembly, guarding the aquatic border of the United Nations alongside New York City police boats

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022

US condemns death of Iranian woman in religious police custody while demonstrations erupt in Tehran

22-year-old’s death sparks backlash against religious laws

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022

Canada’s prime minister to host Haiti discussion as UN General Assembly gets under way

As the United Nations General Assembly gets under way in New York, Haiti is set to command attention not just from the United States, which is co-hosting a high-level donor event on Friday, but its neighbor to the north, Canada.

Miami Herald · Sep 21, 2022

World Leaders Warn of Divisions over Ukraine ahead of Biden Speech

Ukraine will take center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday as world leaders warned of a new era of divisions over the war and other crises including climate change. US President Joe Biden will address the UN General Assembly on Wednesday as will Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the only…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 21, 2022

Biden at UN to call Russian war an affront to body's charter

President Joe Biden is ready to make the case at the U.N. General Assembly that Russia's “naked aggression” in Ukraine is an affront to the heart of what the international body stands

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022

At UN, hope peeks through the gloom despite a global morass

Hope can be hard to find anywhere these days

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2022

Annual high-power UN meetings start with US looking to shore up unity on Ukraine

UNITED NATIONS — The world’s leaders converged on the United Nations on Tuesday for the opening sessions of the body’s annual General Assembly, held in person for the first time in three years, but with twin crises of war in Ukraine and famine in Africa weighing heavily on the gathering.

Los Angeles Times · Sep 20, 2022

UN chief says world ‘in peril and paralysed’ as summit convenes

At UN General Assembly, Guterres warns leaders that nations are ‘gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction’.

Al Jazeera · Sep 20, 2022

One year later, growing global perils as Biden returns to UN

President Joe Biden is confronting difficult issues as he travels to New York this week for the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly

The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2022

UN Chief Warns of ‘Winter of Discontent’ as War and Climate Worsen

The head of the United Nations warned Tuesday of an upcoming "winter of global discontent" from rising prices, a warming planet and deadly conflicts as world leaders sought ways forward on Ukraine and Iran. The UN General Assembly, the annual gathering of world leaders that clogs Midtown Manhattan, returned in…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 20, 2022