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If the Israeli government moves to https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/19/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/israel-is-discussing-new-limits-on-access-to-an-important-mosque-in-jerusalem?smid=url-share for some of its Arab citizens to Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Arab leaders warn of [...]

KYIV, Ukraine -- On the eve of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia argued that the very idea of Ukrainian statehood was a fiction. Mr. [...]

Byline: Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Andrew Higgins, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Rick Gladstone The remarks by the official, Josep Borrell Fontelles, were among the strongest language from a Western leader in describing [...]

Byline: Valerie Hopkins, Marc Santora, Ivan Nechepurenko and Rick Gladstone The government's order for hundreds of remaining fighters to stand down offers Russia a propaganda victory, but prospects for a [...]

Byline: Marc Santora, Anton Troianovski, Rick Gladstone and Matthew Mpoke Bigg Russia appeared to shrink its already narrowed goals to take the Donbas region, as NATO and its two newest [...]

The government's order for hundreds of remaining fighters to stand down offers Russia a propaganda victory, but prospects for a prisoner swap seem unclear at best. KYIV, Ukraine -- Hundreds [...]

Russia appeared to shrink its already narrowed goals to take the Donbas region, as NATO and its two newest applicants, Sweden and Finland, practiced war games near Russia's border. KRAKOW, [...]

Hours after the American secretaries of defense and state met with Ukraine's president in Kyiv, Russia hit at least five Ukrainian railway stations in rocket attacks. KRAKOW, Poland -- The [...]

Long after the fighting ends, any prosecutions and trials arising from it could be barely beginning. Here is a look at the complexities of bringing aggressors to justice. The brutalities [...]

The global number of nuclear-armed warheads is increasing, according to a watchdog report released Monday that comes against the backdrop of the Kremlin's veiled threats to use some of its [...]

Byline: Rick Gladstone The apparent execution of Ukrainian civilians by retreating Russian forces, their bodies strewn in streets and yards, has focused attention on what constitutes crimes in war. Perhaps [...]

The apparent execution of Ukrainian civilians by retreating Russian forces, their bodies strewn in streets and yards, has focused attention on what constitutes crimes in war. Perhaps it was the [...]

The alliance also said it would assist Ukraine because of chemical, biological and nuclear threats posed by Russia in the month-old invasion. BRUSSELS -- NATO announced a doubling of its [...]

Byline: Michael Schwirtz, Andrew E. Kramer and Rick Gladstone Two weeks after the invasion began, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are without food, water or power. The Russians are increasingly [...]

Two weeks after the invasion began, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are without food, water or power. The Russians are increasingly resorting to indiscriminate shelling to help their forces advance. [...]

In a speech, President Vladimir V. Putin bent Ukraine's complex history into his own version that served as a justification for his cleaving off more of its territory. KYIV, Ukraine [...]

With vitriolic accusations that echoed the Cold War era, the United States and Russia sparred in a bitter debate over the Ukraine crisis in a Security Council meeting watched by [...]

Byline: Rick Gladstone The resolution was aimed at combating what Israel and other countries have described as an epidemic of disinformation about the murder of nearly six million Jews and [...]

The resolution was aimed at combating what Israel and other countries have described as an epidemic of disinformation about the murder of nearly six million Jews and millions of others [...]

Prime Minister Boris Johnson's self-abasing apology, for attending a party during a pandemic lockdown, joins a long list of mea culpas by the prominent and powerful. Some of the I'm [...]

A U.N. conference made little headway this week on limiting development and use of killer robots, prompting stepped-up calls to outlaw such weapons with a new treaty. It may have [...]

The Russian veto of a widely supported Security Council resolution pointed to the difficulty of achieving a unified response to global warming. Russia on Monday blocked a United Nations Security [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom monitoring group, said 293 journalists were behind bars this year, more than a quarter of them in China. Increased government intolerance of [...]

The detentions aggravated the already tense relations between the United Nations and the Ethiopian government over war and famine in the country's northern Tigray region. Sixteen United Nations staff members [...]

A humanitarian flight was ordered to abort a landing in the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region, epicenter of the conflict, as government airstrikes hit the area for a fourth day. [...]

The Trump administration called the 47-nation council hypocritical and said it was vilifying Israel. The Biden administration says the U.S. can be more effective as a member. The United States [...]

Revelations from nearly 12 million leaked confidential financial records have thrown light on the concealed wealth of powerful public figures around the world. How do they hide their money, and [...]

The move came days after the U.N. aid chief accused Ethiopia of mounting an aid blockade that is pushing the region into famine. NAIROBI, Kenya -- Ethiopia ordered the expulsion [...]

The General Assembly speeches exalted the ideals of the United Nations but showed intransigence on many longstanding disputes and armed conflicts, some nearly as old as the organization itself. They [...]

On the final day of the General Assembly's most important annual gathering, no one is expected to speak for Myanmar, but the envoy of Afghanistan's ousted government may yet take [...]

The foreign minister for Iran's new hard-line government said it would demand a higher price for limiting its nuclear program than it did in the 2015 deal. Accusing President Biden [...]

Stopping short of urging that a Taliban envoy to the U.N. be accepted, Pakistan's foreign minister suggested that stability had improved in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Pakistan's foreign minister said Friday that [...]

The pledge, which depends on congressional approval, is considered key to the success of the U.N.-led climate talks that are planned for November in Glasgow. President Biden said on Tuesday [...]

It marks a major shift for one of the biggest backers of coal-fired plants globally. Still, China remains heavily reliant on new coal plants at home, and is the world's [...]

The United Nations General Assembly session, the world's biggest diplomatic convocation, will commandeer attention with a lineup of leader speeches starting Tuesday. The United Nations convenes its annual speeches by [...]

Taliban leaders have turned the Kabul building that housed Afghanistan's Ministry of Women's Affairs into the offices for the religious police, an ominous portent for women's rights. KABUL, Afghanistan -- [...]

Governments of the two countries have been toppled by pariah regimes. Will they get seats at the world's biggest diplomatic table anyway? Myanmar's brutal military coup and the Taliban's triumphal [...]

Despite the Taliban's effort to project themselves as responsible stewards after seizing power, there was still no word on when a new government would be announced. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's [...]

A FACADE OF NORMALITY AMERICA, GONE: AFTERMATH AT BAGRAM PRE-TALIBAN IMAGES, NOW VANISHED ANXIETY DEEPENS: BOARDING BUSES TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN AS THE TALIBAN NEARED HERAT, PEOPLE FLED EAST TO KABUL [...]

Misuse of previous aid money, Haiti's political convulsions, and competing humanitarian demands may signal less generosity this time. The urgent pleas for donations to help Haiti cope with last Saturday's [...]

A magnitude 7.2 quake struck in the west of the country, flattening buildings and overwhelming hospitals. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A magnitude 7.2 earthquake violently shook Haiti on Saturday morning, a [...]

Iran's government is neither the democracy it claims nor the monolithic theocracy portrayed by critics. The new president, inaugurated Thursday, has real powers but is subservient to an ''ultimate authority.'' [...]

''Trust in the West does not work,'' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, signaling further problems with stalled negotiations to salvage the country's nuclear agreement. Iran's top leader injected new doubts Wednesday [...]

It was the 29th year that the U.N General Assembly had approved the resolution, an annual event used by critics of the United States to vent their anger over the [...]

A resolution adopted Friday by the General Assembly is the most widespread condemnation yet of the Feb. 1 coup, a sharp diplomatic slap that contradicted the junta's claim it has [...]

United Nations agencies said the crisis in Ethiopia's conflict-ravaged Tigray region had plunged it into famine. ''This is going to get a lot worse,'' a top aid official said. Famine [...]

The Council's recommendation basically assures the Portuguese statesman's tenure as secretary general and extends the history of male-only stewardship of the United Nations since its 1945 founding. The United Nations [...]

In a memoir, the former secretary general said the United Nations should have done far more to combat a cholera scourge traced to peacekeepers. But he also criticized Haitian leaders [...]

Byline: Rick Gladstone The top humanitarian official at the United Nations warned that parts of Tigray are one step from famine, as the government hinders relief shipments. Famine is now [...]

The top humanitarian official at the United Nations warned that parts of Tigray are one step from famine, as the government hinders relief shipments. Famine is now knocking on the [...]