The senior Palestinian diplomat in the U.K., Ambassador Husam Zomlot, told CBS News on Tuesday that President Trump must live up to his vow to bring peace to the Middle East. “We hope the U.S. will join this international momentum, and will be part of this real international quest, for an end to the genocide,”…
International body says mishap appears to have been caused by accidental triggering of built-in safety mechanism. Published On 24 Sep 202524 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share The United Nations has been forced to issue a statement offering an innocent explanation for an escalator malfunction involving US President Donald Trump…
China’s emissions-cutting pledge is poised to take center stage at a United Nations climate meeting Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering — if predictable — broadside against the science surrounding planet-warming fossil fuels. Some 118 nations will outline plans to curb global warming, which is driving disasters worldwide — from catastrophic floods…
United States President Donald Trump has told the United Nations General Assembly that Israel’s war on Gaza must stop immediately as he called the recent recognition of Palestinian statehood by several Western countries a “reward” for Hamas. “We have to stop the war in Gaza immediately,” Trump told world leaders in New York on Tuesday,…
Topline President Donald Trump is expected to challenge the role of the United Nations as he addresses its General Assembly on Tuesday, after repeatedly criticizing the organization, leaving several affiliated agencies and revoking funding for the global body. President Donald Trump walks to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on Septemeber…
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…
When it comes to international conflict, U.S. President Donald Trump learns everything the hard way. On issue after issue—North Korea, Venezuela, Ukraine, Gaza, and more—Trump begins by bucking conventional wisdom and insisting that a bold new approach will yield breakthroughs. Implied, and often said outright, is that past officials who worked on the matter were…
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…
An independent panel of experts commissioned by the United Nations Human Rights Council has concluded “on reasonable grounds that the Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and are continuing to commit” acts of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. In its report published Tuesday, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian…
Hong Kong has been accelerating its integration into the Greater Bay Area, China’s key engine of growth. That has borne fruit for the city’s increased productivity and innovation. Our joint efforts are now being internationally recognised by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which is part of the United Nations. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou economic cluster…