The set of remains handed over to Israel on Tuesday were those of Itay Chen, the final remaining American Israeli hostage, ...

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces reportedly killed more than 450 people in a hospital and carried out ethnically ...

A new United Nations report finds that global plans to fight climate change will barely reduce future warming, mainly caused ...

The world has reached a "major milestone" in the drive to combat modern slavery after Sudan became the fiftieth country to ...

While the pathway amounts to progress since the Paris climate agreement, when temperatures were headed for 4 C of warming, it still is far from enough, the report said. The U.N. reached the grim ...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world faces intense issues of debt sustainability because of the ...

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres paid an official visit to Vietnam and attended the signing ceremony of the ...

The annual U.N. report card finds that, overall, countries are still far off-track from their stated goals to limit global ...

President Trump touted another peace agreement the U.S. helped sponsor between Cambodia and Thailand during a trip to ...

In 2021, rich countries vowed to spend more to help poor countries adapt to warming. That goal is unlikely to be met, a new ...

On October 24, 1945, the United Nations came into existence — a global commitment to prevent another world war and promote ...

Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States on 1860. Within weeks of his ...