The outgoing U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says she watched America’s leadership diminish in the world during Donald Trump’s first presidency and saw China fill the vacuum.

Speaking at a news conference in Lebanon, Guterres said that while there would not be any "impediments by Israel for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza", that getting the aid into the hands of those in need would not be "easy".

Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa said on Thursday his country is ready to welcome UN forces into the UN established buffer zone with Israel.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) said Sunday it has 4,000 truckloads of humanitarian aid ready to enter Gaza, with half of the shipments containing essential food supplies and flour.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday named former Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag as the new U.N. Middle East envoy, a U.N. spokesperson said. Kaag will also continue in her current role as the U.N. senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza, said deputy U.N. spokesperson Farhan Haq.

Manila would be able to raise South China Sea-related issues that could ‘embarrass’ Beijing and nudge it into a compromise, analysts say.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday the priority now "must be to ease the tremendous suffering" caused by the war in Gaza between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas,

The United Nations says it’s ready to ramp up the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid to Gaza after a ceasefire agreement and urged the removal of major security and political obstacles so

Nearly 200,000 Syrian refugees have returned home since the fall of Bashar Al Assad in early December, the UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi said ahead of a visit to the region. Between December 8 and January 16,

The resident coordinator of the United Nations (UN) in Bangladesh Gwyn Lewis assured the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) of continuous support of the world body to continue the trial process smoothly.

"Gwyn Lewis said the UN would support this trial process as much as possible so that it goes on smoothly as the country's people have an aspiration for this," ICT Chief Prosecutor Muhammad Tajul Islam said at a press briefing held at his office this afternoon.

ATLANTA — Former Atlanta mayor and Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young is back home after a brief stint in the hospital, according to his family. The Young family said on Friday that the 92-year-old former mayor and ambassador was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital as a precaution.