The Latest Breaking News from The United Nations

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield says the U.S. hopes the three-day truce between two military forces will be extended.

But officials reject Russian claims attack had put operation of the grain corridor at risk

The United Nations chief and representatives from Western nations berated Russia’s top diplomat as he chaired a U.N. meeting

At the UN Security Council, US envoy says Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich have been used by Moscow as ‘human pawns’.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has proposed to Russian President Vladimir Putin a "way forward aimed at the improvement, extension and expansion" of a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain, a U.N. spokesperson said on Monday.

The head of the Russian Grain Union said on Monday the Black Sea grain deal to facilitate Ukrainian agricultural exports had not yielded anything positive for Russia or helped facilitate supplies to the global market.

India’s population is expected to match China’s by the end of April and then to surpass it as the world’s most populous country, the United Nations said on Monday.

India will be the world’s most populous country by the end of this month, the United Nations said on Monday, eclipsing an aging China and sparking questions about whether India can repeat the economic miracle that has taken China out of poverty and into the ranks of the world’s leading…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Monday that the violence in Sudan "risks a catastrophic conflagration within Sudan that could engulf the whole region and beyond" and called on Security Council members to exert maximum leverage. "We must all do everything within our power to pull Sudan back from the…

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting chaired by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine is "causing massive suffering and devastation to the country and its people" and fueling "global economic dislocation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic." "Tensions between major powers are at an…

China respects the status of the independent sovereign nations that emerged from the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday, after Beijing's envoy to Paris sparked a diplomatic storm by questioning their sovereignty.