The U.N. refugee chief is urging the world’s divided nations to focus on ending conflicts and crises so the more than 117 million people forced to flee their homes can return.

Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.N. General Assembly’s leader and health officials are seeking to make sure that the lurking possibility of another worldwide disease emergency stays on the global agenda.

Demna has shifted focus from strict archetypes to Gucci's luxe heritage in his second collection, previewed Friday at Milan Fashion Week.

Journalists from CNN, MS NOW, and Politico are back at the White House after President Donald Trump attempted to ban them over what he said was unfavorable coverage.

The plight of more than 500 million children in desperate need of an education has been one of the key issues on the sidelines of this week's annual meeting of world leaders at the United Nations.

New figures from Mexico's national statistics agency reveal that violence has forced people from more than half a million households in Mexico to flee their homes in the past five years.

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have wrapped up their Washington summit, focusing on personal rapport rather than substantial agreements.

U2 has returned to their roots, surprising students with a rock and roll class at Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin.

Daily protests in Kosovo against war crimes convictions for former rebel commanders have spread throughout the small Balkan country.

Al Gore believes victory in the climate fight is within reach, though he warns it could slip away.

Pakistan says its forces have killed at least 13 Afghan Taliban personnel in overnight fighting along the countries’ southwestern border, a claim Afghanistan denies.

The U.N. human rights office has added 61 more companies to a blacklist for alleged involvement in violating Palestinian rights through business ties to Israeli settlements in the West Bank.

Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia is threatening the fragile peace that ended the Tigray war.

The United States will end funding for Zimbabwe’s health programs at the end of September.

Residents on Hawaii’s Big Island are bracing for potentially life-threatening and catastrophic flooding from Hurricane Nolo.

The White House has signaled that CNN will be left off Air Force One for President Donald Trump’s Saturday trip.

Iran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume talks on its nuclear program in seven days if the United States lifts its naval blockade, waives sanctions on Iranian oil sales and observes a ceasefire that would include Lebanon.

The robotic spacecraft that failed to rescue an aging NASA telescope has plunged back to Earth less than three months after launching on the bold mission.

New players hit the United Nations General Assembly sidelines this week as humanitarian groups searched for a counterweight to foreign aid cuts.

The European Union says it's ready to defend a 120 million euro fine issued to social media platform X.

Five cheetah cubs at the Prague zoo are doing well after surviving a weather scare and their mother's illness.

The Supreme Court has turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Donald Trump.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to urge China to influence Russia to ends its invasion of Ukraine.

Residents of northern Ethiopia's largest city are living in fear as renewed fighting has erupted between federal troops and rebels.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s elaborate reception of Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington, D.C., has impressed the Chinese public.

France is working on a draft United Nations Security Council resolution backing freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

Final results of Russia's first wartime parliamentary election show that the Kremlin has further cemented its political control of the country.

A powerful blast has caused a building to collapse near the ancient Acropolis in Greece.

Poland stopped registering asylum applications from migrants entering from Belarus in March 2025, calling it a temporary emergency measure.

The U.S.-created Board of Peace has said the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has no place in Gaza.

Hospitals in Yemen are struggling as civil war returns to the Arab world's poorest nation.

A cooldown in oil prices helped release some of the pressure that’s built up on Wall Street, and U.S. stocks closed out their first winning week in the last three.

Pope Leo XIV has warned that a "paradise of machines" could undermine humanity.

President Donald Trump has confirmed he'll have two more meetings with China’s Xi Jinping later this year.

Olena Kalynychenko is among thousands missing after devastating floods hit the Nepal-China border.

A month after deadly floods, Nepal's prime minister says the climate-connected catastrophe is a warning to the rest of the world.

President Donald Trump warmly welcomed Chinese leader Xi Jinping, but protesters gathered outside the White House.

The Trump administration is considering imposing new restrictions on Cuban officials traveling to the United Nations, another step to squeeze the government in Havana.

Cardi B adds star power to Milan Fashion Week as she arrives at the Roberto Cavalli runway show.

Argentina’s poverty rate rose sharply in the first half of 2026, marking the first significant setback after more than a year of declines under President Javier Milei.

Donald Trump has hosted a state dinner for China's leader Xi Jinping, highlighting the glitzier side of diplomacy with a tech-heavy guest list and lavish details.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says the world cannot allow countries and cultures to vanish beneath the waves.

A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own has thrown a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump showed off some of his favorite things at the White House to China's leader, Xi Jinping, on Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is accusing Mayor Zohran Mamdani of endangering Jewish New Yorkers with his criticism of Israel’s military actions in Gaza.

Thousands of determined and hungry South Africans descended on a sports stadium in an attempt to break the world record for the biggest cookout.

Italy’s conservative government on Thursday has approved a school decree limiting classrooms to 30% of students with insufficient Italian-language skills and banning full-face Islamic veils, including burqas and niqabs.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump has cooled as they disagree on how to handle the conflict with Iran.

Milan's fashion scene is seeing creative directors shake things up at iconic houses.

Chinese President Xi Jinping says two giant pandas from China will arrive at Zoo Atlanta in the coming days.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is capable of handling sabotage and drone incidents in Europe and has good action plans in place.

The Committee to Protect Journalists says that 19 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire who it had previously identified as journalists or media workers were actually militants or participants in combat.

Allegations of Israeli genocide in Gaza are not only false but “the biggest lie of the century" — so says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Major Chinese auto group Geely has unveiled new ultrafast EV charging technology that can recharge a battery from 10% to 70% in just 4.5 minutes.

African leaders at the United Nations General Assembly are demanding reform of the Security Council to include permanent seats for African countries.

Yemen’s internationally recognized government is pressing world leaders anew for help defeating the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

President Donald Trump is hailing the friendship he’s forged with Xi Jinping during the Chinese leader's highly anticipated state visit.

Mountain gorillas in Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park are seeing their population grow, but their forest habitat is not expanding.

Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia has shattered a peace pact that ended a devastating two-year war in 2022.

Officials say that Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have killed at least eight civilians.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly, calling his decision to attack Iran as “one of the easiest” he's ever made and allegations of genocide in Gaza “the biggest lie of the century.”.

Turkey has agreed to gradually withdraw forces from a strategic military base in northern Iraq and hand over control to the Iraqi government.

Nolo is now the latest hurricane in the Pacific Ocean.

Provisional election results in Morocco show that the Authenticity and Modernity Party has won the largest number of seats in the country’s parliamentary election.

Stocks ended a shaky day of trading on Wall Street roughly where they began following a couple sudden reversals.

Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met on Thursday for important talks on the U.S.-China relationship.

The Trump administration wants to put billions of dollars into Argentina’s energy and mining industries.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has sent two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea.

China’s Wudang Mountains have long been considered sacred in Taoism, with temples and palaces reflecting centuries of religious and imperial history.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he is extremely concerned about OpenAI's security breach of a government website, and that the artificial intelligence company took too long to reveal the incident.

The Pentagon is investigating how parts of the nation’s most advanced fighter jet ended up in Hong Kong.

Venezuela’s acting president has delivered her first address to the U.N. General Assembly since coming to power.

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Washington is getting a much chillier reception on Capitol Hill than at the White House.

In the end, it was all kisses and laughter as U.S. President Donald Trump hailed his “fantastic” relationship with Denmark and Greenland.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has met with world and business leaders to advance climate action and clean energy in New York.

The heads of major artificial intelligence firms pleaded with the United Nations to set controls over the burgeoning technology they are designing in order to save the world — or at least its people.

The son of Israel’s ambassador to the United States has been gravely injured in a ramming attack in the occupied West Bank.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping's visit to Washington this week marks a shift in relations.

Ukrainian President President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is urging world’s leaders to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts.

Argentine President Javier Milei reaffirms Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands.

A federal judge weighing President Donald Trump’s ban of three news outlets from White House grounds expressed some skepticism Wednesday in response to the government’s defense of the move.

The Oxford English Dictionary has officially added over a dozen Caribbean words."

President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election, which further strengthened the Kremlin’s already-overwhelming legislative control, was a sign of public support for his policies.

Italy’s Senate has given final approval to legislation paving the way for a return to nuclear power.

The World Health Organization warns that Congo is running short of health workers to staff treatment centers for the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history.

The U.S.-backed Board of Peace is proposing a six-month, $2.45 billion plan to begin reconstruction and governance in Gaza as President Donald Trump’s ceasefire plan struggles to stay afloat.

Prince Harry says that artificial intelligence chatbots designed to provide companionship are even more dangerous to young people than social media.

Iran’s president said Wednesday that his people have been ‘victims of terrorism’ by the United States.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Washington, where he received a rare greeting from President Donald Trump.

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.

U.S. President Donald Trump and the leaders of Denmark and Greenland have signed an agreement about Greenland's status.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a defiant speech at the United Nations as Tehran downplayed talks with the United States about their 7-month-long war.

Rome's Colosseum has been closed to mourn a worker who fell to his death at Italy's most-visited monument.

Regional forces in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, have taken control of the local airport, causing Ethiopian Airlines to cancel flights to the region.

Pakistan says it carried out airstrikes on 10 sites in Afghanistan that it said were used to launch drone attacks against Pakistan a day earlier.

Artificial intelligence researchers have warned for years of ways the technology could wipe out humanity: AI bots could design an unstoppable disease, unleash a nuclear war, or transform all of Earth into paper clip factories, as one thought experiment goes.

Russia has launched daylight drone attacks on Kyiv, hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the U.N. General Assembly.

Taiwan is expressing confidence that U.S. arms sales to the island will continue despite China's pressure as China’s Xi Jinping arrives in Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Police and local authorities in South Africa say three gunmen opened fire at a house party and killed 11 people including a pregnant woman.

Moroccan voters are choosing a new parliament in an election marked by frustration among young people and high unemployment.