NEW YORK - US President Donald Trump "sees great promise in the United Nations if it focuses on its founding mission of international peace and security," his nominee to be ambassador told the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan 21.

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

Gaza Nutrition, water sanitation kits, hygiene kits and items for neonatal care are some of the supplies Unicef has prepared to send into Gaza on 1,300 lorries once the border crossings open under the terms of a ceasefire that starts on Sunday morning,

UNICEF Sudan's Head of Advocacy and Communication, told AFP late on Thursday. Famine has already gripped five areas across Sudan, according to a report last month by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-backed assessment.

UNICEF has warned that hundreds of children in Syria continue to suffer the brutal impact of unexploded ordnance

Syria’s lethal legacy of landmines and other explosives left over from years of conflict has led to the deaths of over 100.

the UN said Tuesday. The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF warned that Syria’s girls and boys “continue to suffer the brutal impact of unexploded ordnance at an alarming rate.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Elise Stefanik opened her confirmation hearing Tuesday for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations by pledging to implement President Donald Trump’s “America First” mandate and roll out a review of U.S. funding for some of the world body’s agencies.

Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for her confirmation hearing as nominee for UN envoy, Jan. 21, 2025. “It has never been more critical for the United States to lead with strength and moral clarity,” she said in her remarks.

Stefanik argued the US needs “to be a voice of moral clarity on the UN Security Council and at the United Nations at large for the world to hear the importance of standing with

North Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik pledged Tuesday to push President Donald Trump’s “America First” stance if confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

The fourth-ranking member of the U.S. House, she was elected to Congress in 2015 as a moderate Republican and is leaving a decade later as one of Trump's most ardent allies.