Opening day at the United Nations’ annual gathering of world leaders saw beefed-up security measures and a suspicious package that added to the chaotic scene around U.N. headquarters in New York.

President David Adeang has reiterated his island nation’s name change before the world’s largest gathering of leaders at the United Nations.

World leaders are painting quite different views of the future of artificial intelligence at the United Nations, with colorful phrases such as killer robots and super intelligence.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is urging global leaders to cooperate to tackle the existential threats from climate crisis, runaway artificial intelligence and intensifying inequalities.

The Gates Foundation is convening Anthropic, Google, OpenAI Foundation and dozens of other organizations to help make artificial intelligence more accessible in underrepresented languages.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is pleading for “a world built on interdependence” as he makes his final address to the General Assembly gathering of world leaders.

The U.N. General Assembly is about to host its yearly meeting of world leaders.

The United Nations has announced the appointment of U.S. agriculture official Luke Lindberg to head the World Food Program.

The United Nations’ top official acknowledges the world is deeply divided and the U.N.’s most powerful body is paralyzed when it comes to ending conflicts.

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have authorized U.N. experts to keep monitoring sanctions that were reimposed against Iran over its nuclear program.

The United Nations chief is urging global competitors in artificial intelligence to cooperate in addressing threats from the technology, warning that “the world cannot afford a race to the bottom on AI safety.”.

Bill Gates is warning technology companies and world leaders that they must act now to ensure artificial intelligence combats social inequities.

The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization is not expected to attend the annual gathering of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s member nations in Vienna for the first time in many years.

Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Yemen's Houthi rebels have taken the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha, bringing them closer to controlling key shipping routes.

In a strategic retreat, the United Nations concedes that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst impacts of global warming.

The United States military says it has struck new targets in Iran as hostilities flared after a month without military action.

Two reports investigating the forcible contraception of thousands of Indigenous women and girls in Greenland by Danish health authorities for decades were split over whether the practice constituted genocide.

Rescue teams and military helicopters are searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border.

The United Nations says armed men have killed at least 47 people and kidnapped over 50 others near Haiti’s capital.

The United Nations and the International Red Cross are urging countries to adopt bans and restrictions on autonomous weapons systems that are often called “killer robots.”.

The Trump administration has notified Congress of its plans to pay more than $800 million of the several billion it owes to the United Nations.

The U.N.'s humanitarian chief warns of the growing threat of drones against civilians and aid workers in Ukraine.

The United Nations says that an explosion near a school complex in the Afghan capital of Kabul has wounded at least 42 children.

Taliban rulers have celebrated the fifth anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan.

Russian jet-powered drones have struck a home in northern Ukraine, killing a 29-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son.

The United Nations says Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have detained two Afghan members of the U.N. political mission in the country.

A U.N. agency reports that five years after the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, around 2.4 million girls remain excluded from secondary education.

The United Nations estimates that more than 16,000 civilians detained by Russia during its war in Ukraine are still being held.

The United Nations warns that a strengthening El Nino is intensifying global weather extremes and is adding fuel to a planet that it says is already on fire.

The head of the U.N. food agency is warning that the fastest growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded is leaving thousands more people hungry in eastern Congo.

U.S. diplomats walked out as their French counterparts spoke at the United Nations after the European ally criticized the Trump administration’s human rights record.

The United Nations' human rights chief says Israel must end its military presence in southern Lebanon and stop demolishing homes.

U.N. human rights chief Volker Türk won a second term Friday despite opposition from the United States, Russia and Israel to keep him in one of the most controversial United Nations posts for four more years.

The head of the World Trade Organization says surging global demand for critical minerals should be “a once-in-a-lifetime chance” for resource-rich countries in Africa and elsewhere to harness wealth and improve life for millions.

The United Nations refugee agency says it is “extremely saddened” after nearly 150 people died or went missing off Mauritania last week.

The U.S. envoy to the United Nations says the U.S. government plans to stop violent gangs in Haiti from profiting off social media.

A senior European Union official says the EU has coordinated efforts to raise $1 billion in aid pledges for rebuilding Gaza.

Victims of last month's powerful earthquakes in Venezuela are flooding relief services.

Two top United Nations officials are urging Western nations to engage with Afghanistan to prevent the country from sliding back into instability.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon, water and land used to power their systems.

Guy Gilboa-Dalal, an Israeli man who says he was sexually abused while held hostage in Gaza, is speaking out to highlight sexual abuse in conflict zones.

The United Nations’ food agencies warn that acute hunger is set to worsen across 13 global hot spots in the coming months, calling for urgent action.

The United Nations’ top human rights official called Wednesday for a “massive rethink” of immigration policies especially in the United States ahead of the World Cup.

The U.N. food agency says millions of people are being pushed into acute hunger by the Iran war, as it warned would happen if the conflict escalated and oil prices remained high.

Portugal and Austria have defeated Germany for seats on the powerful but deeply divided U.N. Security Council in a hotly contested race after intense campaigning.

An annual United Nations report documenting sexual violence in conflicts worldwide has included Israeli forces for the first time since the review began more than 15 years ago for their treatment of Palestinian detainees.

A new report from the United Nations weather agency gives a three-out-of-four chance that the next five years will average more than 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures.

A four-week conference at the United Nations to review the treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons has ended without an agreement as the United States and Iran spar over Iran's nuclear program.

The United Nations’ top court has issued a landmark advisory opinion that says the right to strike is protected by a cornerstone labor treaty.

The Trump administration has announced $1.8 billion in additional funding for U.N. humanitarian aid.

Yemen's government and Houthi rebels have agreed to free more than 1,600 detainees in the largest swap of Yemen's 11-year civil war.

Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez has arrived in the Netherlands to defend her country’s claim to a mineral- and oil-rich region in western Guyana before the United Nations highest court in a dispute that has spanned decades.

Venezuela insists that a mineral-rich region of Guyana was fraudulently taken in the 19th century.

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says the majority of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is still believed to be at its Isfahan nuclear complex.

Four candidates vying to lead the United Nations have spent hours being grilled about their views on issues from restoring global peace to ending escalating poverty.

Four candidates to be the next secretary-general of the United Nations will audition for the job this week, far fewer than there were 10 years ago when António Guterres was selected as U.N. chief.

The U.S. is urging other nations to back a “trade over aid” initiative at the United Nations as part of the Trump administration’s broader shift away from donor-focused development assistance and toward greater private investment.

The gap between rich and poor nations is growing even wider as actions agreed to by many countries last year, including overhauling the major global financial institutions, remain unfulfilled promises.

More than 1,000 humanitarian workers have been killed across the globe in the last three years, nearly triple the death count in the previous three years, the U.N. says.

Russia and China have vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

Aid groups are warning that the war in the Middle East has upended their ability to get food and medicine to millions in need and that more people will suffer if the violence continues.

According to documents viewed by The Associated Press, a three-judge panel says the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court can potentially resume his duties following a sexual misconduct investigation.

Osceola Health, in collaboration with the Health Leadership Council, is hosted the free human trafficking awareness training.

The U_N_ General Assembly has adopted a resolution declaring the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity” and calling for reparations as “a concrete step towards remedying historical wrongs.”.

A U_N_-backed panel of independent experts focusing on racial discrimination says racist hate speech by U_S_ President Donald Trump and other American political leaders, along with a crackdown on immigration in the United States, have led to “grave human rights violations.”.

Iran targeted the world’s busiest international airport Wednesday and attacked commercial ships as U.S. and Israeli strikes rocked Tehran, while the United Nations’ most powerful body demanded a halt to the Islamic Republic’s strikes on its Gulf neighbors that threaten global oil supplies.

The State Department has designated Afghanistan as a sponsor of wrongful detention as the U_S_ ambassador to the United Nations separately called out the country for engaging in what he said was “hostage diplomacy.”.

The United Nations political chief says demand for critical minerals that power technology from smartphones to missiles could triple by 2030 and quadruple by 2040.

U.S. first lady Melania Trump will preside over a U.N. Security Council meeting in what the United Nations said Thursday would be a first.

The family of independent U.N. investigator Francesca Albanese has sued the Trump administration over U.S. sanctions imposed on her last year for her criticism of Israel’s policies in Gaza.

The United Nations and Somalia's government has said that nearly 6.5 million people in Somalia are facing severe hunger.

The United Nations says the United States has paid about $160 million of the nearly $4 billion it owes, and President Donald Trump is promising more money to the financially strapped world organization.

U.N.-backed investigators say Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have carried out a campaign in the city of el-Fasher in the Darfur region that shows “hallmarks of genocide” against non-Arab communities.

President Donald Trump has announced at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief package.

Members of the United Nations Security Council are calling for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasting Israeli efforts to expand control in the West Bank as a threat to prospects of a two-state solution.

The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including reparations for damage caused by any nation that fails to take actiom.

UNICEF says that the recruitment of children by armed groups in Haiti tripled last year as poverty and violence deepens across the troubled Caribbean country.

The United Nations says it’s waiting to find out how much of the nearly $4 billion the United States owes the world organization the Trump administration intends to pay and when the money will arrive.

Humanitarian organizations in South Sudan say restricted access to the conflict-hit eastern state of Jonglei has left thousands of people in need of lifesaving medical care and food assistance at risk.

The United Nations chief is warning that the world body faces “imminent financial collapse” unless its financial rules are overhauled or all 193 member nations pay their dues in full and on time.

President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to sidestep the United Nations through his new Board of Peace appears to have inadvertently backfired.

President Donald Trump launched his Board of Peace on Thursday to lead efforts to maintain a ceasefire in Gaza.

Grim humanitarian conditions remain in Gaza months after the ceasefire paused two years of war between Israel and Hamas militants.

President Donald Trump meandered through a list of his administration’s accomplishments while speaking at a White House press briefing Tuesday.

Israeli forces have targeted two United Nations facilities as part of their crackdown on the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.

President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” that was initially seen as a mechanism focused on ending the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is taking shape with ambitions to have a far broader mandate of other global crises.

The United Nations chief is lashing out at countries that violate international law and calling the concentration of power and wealth by the world’s richest 1% “morally indefensible.”.

Strong winds have caused at least four deaths in Gaza as walls collapsed onto tents in the coastal territory.

The United States is accusing Russia of a “dangerous and inexplicable escalation” of the nearly four-year war in Ukraine at a time when the Trump administration is trying to advance negotiations toward peace.

The United Nations is forecasting that the global economy will grow by 2.7% this year.

U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the United Nations climate framework marks a significant escalation of anti-climate policy.

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and the U.N. treaty that establishes international climate negotiations.

Israel has revoked the licenses of more than three dozen humanitarian organizations, and now those groups are grappling with how that will affect aid operations in Gaza.

The United States has announced a $2 billion pledge for U.N. humanitarian aid as President Donald Trump continues to slash U.S. foreign assistance funding.

Millions of Afghans are struggling as international aid cuts sever a lifeline many relied on for food and heating.

Iran and the United States have reaffirmed their commitments to diplomacy at a contentious meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

Sudan’s prime minister is proposing a wide-ranging peace initiative to end a nearly 1,000-day war with a rival paramilitary force.

It’s been a grim week at the end of a tough year for the United Nations: Six U.N. peacekeepers were killed in a drone attack in Sudan.

The world’s leading authority on food crises says the spread of famine’s been averted in the Gaza Strip.