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US President Donald Trump speaks to the United Nations General Assembly, September 23, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Trump expected to defend Iran war, tout Gaza peace efforts during speech to UN
By AFP
US president claimed last year that he faced sabotage when an escalator stopped working at the UN building and his teleprompter failed mid-speech
A United Nations logo on a security entrance door to the United Nations compound at the start of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 21, 2026, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah)
September 21, 2026, 11:21 pm
War, runaway AI and climate shocks to take center stage as world leaders meet at UN
Netanyahu set to address General Assembly Thursday, joining Trump, Zelensky and Pezeshkian among 130-odd world leaders to descend on New York for Guterres’s final UN gathering
By Edith M. Lederer
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during a high-profile meeting at the United Nations aimed at galvanizing support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict September 22, 2025, at UN headquarters. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
September 19, 2026, 12:54 pm
A year after Western recognition, Palestinians see little progress toward statehood
Diplomatic push has brought little change on the ground; Palestinians point to rising settler violence and a weakened PA, while Israel says statehood would reward terrorism
By AFP
A child runs past a banner strung across the rubble of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school showing portraits of the children and teachers killed there by a February 28 US airstrike in Minab, southern Iran, September 7, 2026. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
September 18, 2026, 9:34 am
UN mission: US strike that hit Iran school was ‘indiscriminate,’ likely a war crime
Fact-finding probe: Military acted ‘recklessly’ in attacking site of primary school adjacent to IRGC base; says Iran committed ‘gross human rights violations’ in protest crackdown
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Attendees watch as the six candidates for the United Nations Secretary-General position debate at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York, on July 23, 2026. (Leonardo MUNOZ/AFP)
September 17, 2026, 3:01 am
Critics say upcoming UN Durban commemoration whitewashes antisemitic 2001 conference
Anti-racism gathering marred by antisemitism and Hitler support to be reaffirmed later this month for 25th anniversary, drawing pushback from Israeli and US missions
By Luke Tress
Palestinians walk past destroyed buildings from the recent war in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, September 8, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
September 15, 2026, 4:26 pm
UN rights chief urges access to all of Gaza to recover bodies buried under rubble
Volker Turk says IDF bulldozing areas ‘with no respect’ for dead underneath, says civil defense recovered 630 bodies in Hamas-controlled part of split enclave since November
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaks during a meeting of the Security Council at UN headquarters, March 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
September 13, 2026, 7:03 pm
Israel expects ‘intense’ protests during Netanyahu UN trip after Mamdani called for rallies
Israeli ambassador to United Nations says mayor should ‘focus on his tasks’ in the city, also announces launch of antisemitism task force
By Luke Tress
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 26, 2025. (ANGELA WEISS / AFP)
September 9, 2026, 6:07 pm
Netanyahu planning quick trip for UN speech to defy Mamdani over arrest threat — envoy
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, notes General Assembly falls in middle of Jewish holidays, election period, but says it’s ‘important’ that the PM attend, if only for 24 hours
By Edith M. Lederer
IDF soldiers at a staging area near the Israeli border with Syria, February 28, 2026. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
September 8, 2026, 7:51 pm
UN commission warns Israel may have committed ‘war crimes’ in Syria
Probe finds 49 Syrians, including two children, detained as of June and held in Israel, which slams the investigation and denies any territorial aspirations
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Relatives console Muna Khadka, center, who lost her son Aayush Khada in flash floods, at a cremation ground in Chitwan, Nepal, August 31, 2026.
September 2, 2026, 11:39 am
Nepal turns to rehabilitation as hope fades for nearly 4,000 missing after glacier disaster
Rescuers make last search of hydropower tunnels a week after devastating flash floods left more than 1,100 dead; authorities fear many are buried under debris
By Gopal Sharma and Saurabh Sharma
Artyom Kirpichenok. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 30, 2026, 3:05 pm
Russia appeals to UN over Israel’s ‘arbitrary’ detention of Russian-Israeli historian
Israel-critical Artyom Kirpichenok has been missing since arriving in Tel Aviv on Aug. 4, with Moscow claiming he is being held by the Shin Bet over his ‘political views’
By Nava Freiberg and ToI Staff
Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, right, talks on the phone next to Russian Army General Vladimir Zurbenko, center, during the visit of a Russian Army delegation to the Bosnian town of Banja Luka in October 1995. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)
August 27, 2026, 7:13 pm
Ratko Mladic, Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide, dies at 84
Wartime commander was serving life sentence for Srebrenica massacre and siege of Sarajevo; reports say he died in a UN prison hospital in The Hague
By Jovana Gec and DUSAN STOJANOVIC
A Ukrainian FP-1 long-range attack drone is launched at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, August 16, 2026. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
August 25, 2026, 5:27 pm
UN and Red Cross step up call for restrictions on ‘killer robot’ weapons
Joint statement from agencies warns that world is ‘dangerously close to crossing a moral red line’ that would see ‘the autonomous targeting of humans by machines’
By Jamey Keaten
Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Permanent Representative of Guyana to the United Nations, speaks to the press after meeting with Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro at the Presidential Palace in Bogota, Colombia, February 8, 2024. (AP Photo)
August 22, 2026, 1:43 am
Guyanese ex-FM Birkett leads UN chief race; Costa Rica’s Grynspan falls to 2nd place
Second straw poll favors Guyanese diplomat, while former Costa Rican VP, who would be first Jewish person to lead UN, trails narrowly; UN nuclear watchdog chief Grossi places 3rd
By AFP and ToI Staff
Four young girls dressed in matching outfits hold Taliban flags on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the US withdrawal and the start of Taliban rule in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Nava Jamshidi)
August 15, 2026, 1:40 pm
Taliban marks 5 years back in power as Afghan women remain shut out of public life
Officials tout stability and end to war while women remain barred from universities and girls over 12 are shut out of school; UN warns of deepening rights crisis
By Qahar Afghan and Susan Frazer
An armed student waves a Yemeni flag as he is flanked by a peer waving a Palestinian flag and others displaying the Houthi rebels' banner, which reads 'Death to America, death to Israel, a curse on the Jews,' at a rally in support of the Iran-backed rebels amid escalating tensions with Saudi Arabia, on the Sanaa University Campus in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital, on July 22, 2026. (Mohammed HUWAIS/AFP)
August 14, 2026, 12:55 pm
Houthi attack on Yemeni port city kills 8, government official says amid strained truce
Iran-backed group also claims drone attack on Saudi Aramco refinery, as UN warns of highest risk of renewed civil war since 2022 truce, as humanitarian crisis deepens
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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