After a week-long gathering of leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York, its president struck a positive tone on Monday. Annalena Baerbock, the former German foreign minister, said there was a collective will to “choose the right path at the crossroads”. “If high-level week is any indication, this house is fulfilling that purpose…
Reservists and hostage families condemn Netanyahu’s UN speech plan, calling the mission life-threatening and criticizing its real objective. Soldiers serving in the Gaza Strip and their parents have accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of lying about a controversial plan to broadcast his UN General Assembly speech to Gaza residents. The families say the operation put…
Chinese Premier Li Qiang met with US business, academic and civic leaders on Thursday in New York, urging them to use their influence to help improve troubled relations between the two economic giants. Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly at a private meeting, Li said bilateral ties needed to be actively fostered….
The world’s two largest economies “can and should become friends and partners,” Chinese Premier Li Qiang told executives from a group of major American companies Thursday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. “Looking forward, China and the US need to find the right way to get along in this new…
China has committed for the first time to not only stop increasing carbon emissions, but to actually cutting them by 7 to 10 per cent by 2035, a move that reinvigorates the global emissions reductions push, even as the United States withdraws from the Paris climate change agreement. Outlining China’s new carbon targets in a…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday gave a fiery speech during his first UN General Assembly appearance since his White House comeback. Trump accused the world body of failing to help him as he tried to broker peace deals, including in Gaza and Ukraine. He also criticised the UN, saying that the two things he…
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has sharply criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza City and the West Bank during his first visit to the United Nations in New York. “Across Gaza, people are living through hell on earth,” Wadephul said on Monday at a UN conference organized by France and Saudi Arabia to strengthen the two-state…
new video loaded: Australia, Britain, Canada and Portugal Formally Recognize a Palestinian State By Shawn Paik•September 22, 2025 Statements by the leaders of Australia, Britain, Canada and Portugal recognizing Palestinian statehood came before the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Israel’s government condemned the moves. Source link
The United Kingdom will formally recognise the State of Palestine on Sunday, according to multiple British media reports. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is expected to make the announcement ahead of the UN General Assembly’s high-level week, marking a major shift in UK foreign policy. Starmer had previously stated that recognition would depend on Israel’s…
THE UNITED NATIONS has known many crises since its founding in 1945, from the mysterious death in Congo of its secretary-general, Dag Hammarskjöld, in 1961, to Nikita Khrushchev’s alleged shoe-banging in the cold war, the massacres of civilians under its protection in the 1990s, and America’s invasion of Iraq in 2003. As leaders prepare to…