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US president Donald Trump’s address to the annual gathering of the United Nations general assembly in late September 2025 set a new low in international relations. Trump delivered a broadside attack on multilateralism – the effort to solve the world’s problems through collective endeavour – as well as issues that…

Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

Iran on Sunday condemned as "unjustifiable" the reinstatement of United Nations sanctions over its nuclear programme, after the collapse of talks with Western powers and Israeli and US strikes on its nuclear sites.

Seychelles’ electoral authority says the country will hold a rerun vote between the two main contenders

Ukraine said Sunday that Russia pounded the country with "hundreds" of drones and missiles overnight, wounding at least 10 people, as neighbouring Poland scrambled jets to secure its airspace.

As deadly heatwaves become more frequent, demand for life-saving cooling is further straining India’s generation capacity

Zelenskyy says Ukraine also working on deal to sell drones to the US; Sergei Lavrov tells UN ‘any aggression’ against Russia will be met with ‘decisive response’.

Officials have put the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on administrative leave a day after federal immigration agents arrested him because they said he was in the country illegally

Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year.

UK foreign secretary said there is ‘a real consensus’ among the international community

"Time to go to a more democratic place," Petro said in an X statement.