US Ambassador Mike Waltz led a panel event at the UN on the status of human rights in Cuba, Oct. 19, 2026, about a week ...

About 32 million acres of South Pacific seabed off American Samoa could be auctioned in November in what would be the world’s ...

The 15-member Security Council held its sixth straw poll in the selection procedure of the next UN boss. The ballots were ...

The United Nations Security Council is expected to soon move into a more decisive stage of the selection process of the next ...

The UN Refugee Agency, which operates worldwide, including in Myanmar, is battered by drops in voluntary funding and the US dismantling the international refugee convention. Can the agency and its ...

Jeff Bartos, US envoy to the UN on management and reform, far right, with fellow American diplomats, leaving the UN Security Council closed-door meeting to vote in the latest straw poll in the process ...

Binaifer Nowrojee, president of the nonprofit Open Society Foundations, June 2026. In an interview recently during the UN General Assembly high-level week, Nowrojee talked about what the world wants ...

A laundry worker at the Nyakunde Ebola Treatment Center, in Ituri Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. The outbreak of the virus hit the region in mid-May amid a continuing conflict ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An intense flurry of activity took place among the numerous United Nations secretary-general candidates during the high-level week of the ...

Results of UN Secretary-General Straw Polls - PassBlue For straw polls on July 30 and Aug 21 and Sept 18, 2026. Click on the date in the upper chart to see results for each poll The lower chart ...

Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong and Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia leaving the UN Security Council after it held its third secret straw poll in the process to select the next UN leader, Sept. 18.

Hans Blix, a former Swedish civil servant who also worked for the UN across decades, participating in a NATO debate in Stockholm, 2015. He says in an interview that the next UN leader will need to ...