The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft ...

A new UN report outlines how vanishing lakes, overdrawn aquifers, and rapidly melting glaciers are pushing billions toward ...

Gavin Phelan, from Cape Elizabeth, created an app to alert deaf and hard of hearing people to alarms and gunshots.

The United Nations likes to see itself as the world's moral referee: issuing resolutions, censuring governments and setting ...

People have been asking “What if …” forever. Over the next few months, Al Jazeera will explore some of the biggest challenges of our time and ask leading experts: “What if …” Established 80 years ago ...

UNITED NATIONS — The head of the United Nations warned the gathered leaders of nations Tuesday that impunity, inequality and uncertainty are driving modern civilization toward “a powder keg that risks ...

Trump sits down with Middle East leaders, calling it his "most important meeting" The president began meeting with Middle East leaders shortly after 4 p.m., and said it was a "very important meeting ...

Grace Totten, a Grade 11 student at St. Malachy’s Memorial High School, has started a challenge for herself where she wants ...

On 26 June 1945, official representatives of 50 countries, meeting in San Francisco, United States, signed the Charter of the United Nations, forming the world’s premier international organization, ...

Nearly 200 countries convened by the United Nations approved a milestone plan to ramp up renewable energy and transition away from coal, oil and gas. By Brad Plumer and Max Bearak Reporting from the ...

Established upon the ashes of the Second World War to represent “We the Peoples”, it is not surprising that both peace and security were fundamental objectives for the United Nations. While many also ...