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U.S. Becomes First Country to Skip Its Own U.N. Human Rights Review
The State Department says it gives the Geneva council 'no credibility'; the ACLU says the walkout tells the world Washington does not care about scrutiny.
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23 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 10, 2026.
WorldUN Peacekeeping Mission in Western Sahara Ends After 35 Years as U.S. and Russia Clash
Russia vetoed a U.S. resolution backing Morocco's claim, a rival Russian draft failed, and the MINURSO force ceased operations Sunday, raising fears for Africa's longest-running territorial dispute.
WorldLavrov Tells the U.N. Europe Is Sabotaging Peace as Trump Urges Zelenskyy to 'Settle'
Russia's foreign minister vowed the war's aims 'will be achieved,' hours after President Trump said he wants Ukraine's leader to make a deal with Putin before the heavy winter.
WatchTop NewsAltman and Amodei Ask the U.N. Security Council for Global Rules on AI
The rival heads of OpenAI and Anthropic told world leaders that no single country or company can manage AI's risks alone, a day after President Trump vowed not to 'rein it in.'
WorldHundreds of Diplomats Walk Out as Netanyahu Takes the U.N. Stage: 'Moral Cowards'
Israel's prime minister spoke to a mostly empty General Assembly hall, called genocide accusations "the greatest lie of the century" and aimed his sharpest lines at New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, weeks before Israeli elections.
WatchWorldIran's President Tells the U.N. His Country Will Fight 'Until Our Last Breath'
Masoud Pezeshkian held up photos of dead schoolchildren and called out Trump by name, a day after Trump told the same hall he might 'annihilate' the Islamic Republic.
WorldA U.N. Special Rapporteur Concluded There Are 'Reasonable Grounds to Believe' the 68 U.S. Strikes That Killed 223 People on Boats in the Caribbean and Pacific 'Constituted Crimes Against Humanity of Murder'
Ben Saul's briefing note, released by the U.N. Human Rights Council Monday, calls the year-old campaign 'serial extrajudicial killings' and says drug cartels have not staged the armed attack that would trigger a right of self-defense. The White House has not responded.
WatchTop NewsTrump Told Axios He Has 'a Big Decision Coming Up. Do I Want to Go In and Annihilate Them or Do I Not?'
The president says he will make up his mind after meeting six Gulf leaders in New York on Tuesday. Brent is near $104, up from $88 three weeks ago, and central banks in Tokyo, Washington and Frankfurt all raised rates this week to fight the oil shock.
WatchTop NewsU.N. Experts Found 'Reasonable Grounds' the U.S. Committed War Crimes in Iran
The fact-finding mission says two Feb. 28 strikes killed at least 178 civilians, most of them schoolgirls. It goes to the Human Rights Council Monday. Washington hasn't answered its June requests for a meeting.
WorldA Seven-Story Building That Israeli Strikes Had Already Gutted Collapsed on 100 Sheltering Palestinians in Gaza City Overnight
The UN says about 400 of the roughly 2,000 damaged buildings that displaced families are living in across Gaza are at risk of falling down. Egypt sent heavy machinery; Gaza's civil defense director said 'we are still hearing voices from under the rubble.'
World164 Countries Voted to Redraw the World Map. The United States Cast the Only No
The General Assembly endorsed the Equal Earth projection, which shows Africa 14 times larger than Greenland instead of about the same size. The resolution binds nobody.
WorldThe WMO Now Says It Is Nearly Certain This El Nino Keeps Deepening Into 2027
Tropical Pacific waters are running 1.5 to 2.6 degrees Celsius above normal. Antonio Guterres says the event is being 'supersized before our eyes.'
WorldUN Investigators Counted Up to 2,000 Colombian Contractors Flying Drones for Sudan's RSF
A UN fact-finding mission reported Thursday that foreign recruiters, logistics firms and weapons suppliers running through Colombia and the UAE have transformed the Rapid Support Forces into a drone army. It found conduct in El-Fasher displaying what it called hallmarks of genocide.
WorldGuterres Lands in Damascus, the First U.N. Secretary-General to Visit Syria in 17 Years
The U.N. chief met interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the presidential palace and urged the world to "spare no effort" in backing Syria's transition.
WorldICC Member States Vote 82-13 to Fire Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan Over Sexual Misconduct Findings
It is the first time in the International Criminal Court's 24-year history that member states have removed a sitting chief prosecutor. Khan denies all wrongdoing and says he will challenge the decision.
WorldAfrica Overtakes Asia as the World's Hunger Epicenter for the First Time, U.N. Says
A new United Nations report finds 309 million people in Africa went hungry last year even as global hunger eased for a third straight year, blaming conflict and climate shocks.
WorldMore Than 500 Rohingya Refugees Feared Dead After Two Boats Capsize Off Myanmar
U.N. agencies say two overcrowded vessels that set out from Myanmar's Rakhine state in late June are believed to have sunk, in what could be one of the deadliest maritime disasters of the refugee crisis.
WorldJune Was the Deadliest Month for Ukraine's Civilians in Over Four Years, UN Says
Russian long-range strikes and swarms of short-range drones killed at least 293 civilians and wounded nearly 2,000, surpassing a grim record set only a month earlier.
WorldUN Says Haiti Gang Violence Has Killed at Least 2,300 This Year as Bloodshed Spreads
Human rights chief Volker Turk reported 1,100 wounded and dozens kidnapped since January as armed groups push beyond Port-au-Prince into the countryside.
WorldLeaked State Department Cable Orders U.S. Diplomats to Threaten Palestinian Visas Unless U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour Withdraws His Bid for a General Assembly Vice Presidency
The May 19 'sensitive but unclassified' cable directs the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem to pressure Palestinian officials to abandon one of the 21 vice-president slots at the next U.N. session, citing Mansour's record of accusing Israel of genocide and warning of possible visa revocation in what former diplomats call an unprecedented threat.
WorldIsrael Accelerates Home Demolitions in East Jerusalem's Silwan, With Rights Groups Saying 1,450 Palestinians Now Face Expulsion From Their Homes
B'Tselem says Israeli authorities have issued sweeping demolition orders covering the entire al-Bustan section of the 20,000-resident Palestinian neighborhood since the war with Iran began, with U.N. experts warning the campaign 'amounts to ethnic cleansing.'
WorldFélicien Kabuga, Accused Mastermind of Rwanda Genocide, Dies at 91
The wealthy businessman spent 26 years evading arrest before being captured in France in 2020, but never stood trial due to dementia.
Top NewsPakistani Air Strike on Kabul Drug Rehab Center Kills Over 100
Strike on facility housing 2,000 patients draws UN condemnation and calls for immediate ceasefire