The Latest Breaking News from United Nations

Shops that serve unveiled women could be shut under draft law UN human rights body says suppresses women into ‘total submission’

Friends and admirers of former Gov. Bill Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe, from mountain villages of northern New Mexico as a youthful congressman, to the United Nations and a litany of countries on unofficial diplomatic missions that often helped free imprisoned Americans

The V&A has reached a historic agreement with the Republic of Yemen to research and temporarily care for four ancient carved stones.

So far, search-and-rescue teams from only four countries have been allowed to operate after a devastating earthquake.

Nicaragua has increased human rights violations and persecution of the opposition as it ratchets up its efforts to stifle dissent, a United Nations group of experts monitoring the country says

Tuareg rebels says they have seized control of a military camp and posts in Bourem from army and Wagner mercenaries.

An Israeli delegation attended a meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Riyadh

Foreign ministers condemn ‘elections’ held in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia oblasts and Crimea, where electoral competition was limited

On Sept. 13, 1993, the world watched as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn. It was a stunning moment. The famous handshake between adversaries marked the beginning of what became known as the Oslo Accords, a framework…