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[UN: July 3] Honoring US Naturalized Citizens, Gaza’s Incredibly Shrinking Territory & Lots More

This Week @UN: Trump’s big Iran failures; dual citizenships in SecGen race; more “policy profiles” of SG candidates; IOM’s role in US deportations; keeping HQ’s lights on. Plus: Israel shrinks Gaza; progress ending the “inhumane”death penalty; AI warnings; Russia clobbers …

[UN: June 26] Rescuing Sailors in the Strait of Hormuz, Macky Sall, ‘MUNGA’ Candidate & Lots More

This Week @UN: UN office leaves Geneva’s Palais Wilson; SecGen-race backroom deals; Pact for the Future’s future. Plus: Shouting match; climate leadership; Costa Rica’s anti-hate steps; Venezuela’s quakes; sailor rescue in Strait of Hormuz paused; carry on, Keir Starmer. Did …

Secretary-General António Guterres's "solidarity" visit to Haiti on June 16, 2026,

[UN: June 19] New Sec-Gen Nominees Grilled, Government Forces Killing Children & Lots More

This Week @UN: Racing to bankruptcy; 2 SecGen hopefuls grilled; Armenia prefers Europe over Russia. Plus: US-Iran peace plan; Haiti solidarity trip; excluding women from peace talks; Sudan atrocity risk; no calm in Lebanon; happy Juneteenth. Did someone forward this …

Players on the pitch at World Football Day at the UN

[UN: May 22] Containing Ebola, Football Diplomacy on the Pitch & Lots More

This Week @UN: The latest UN SecGen candidate; football/soccer diplomacy; anti-gang force lands in Haiti; US-China summit’s meaning for the UN. Plus: False ceasefire in Lebanon; Ebola outbreak in Congo & Uganda; Rubio calls Guterres; Israeli breaches of UN property; …

Mike Waltz, Tom Fletcher and Jeremy Lewin at UN press briefing

[UN: May 15] US Pledges $1.8 Billion to Humanitarians, Guterres’s Farewell to Africa

This Week @UN: Trump’s faltering Afrikaner program; women’s disability rights in Saudi Arabia; NPT-review marathon. Plus: US money for “lifesaving” aid; the UN grows in Nairobi; Guterres’s “great emotion” for Africa; a new woman UN Sec-Gen candidate; Somalia’s famine risk. …

[UN: April 17] Iran Reopens Strait of Hormuz, Lebanon Ceasefire & Lots More

This Week @UN: UN aid “reset”; upcoming SecGen candidate debates; crucial peacekeeping in South Sudan. Plus: Praising US-Iran talks; Trump’s Pope-bashing; UN envoy in Riyadh & Oman; peacenik Pope; World Bank “borrowers’ platform”; Lebanon breathes; ICJ’s birthday. Follow us on …

UN humanitarian relief chief, Tom Fletcher

Has the UN Aid ‘Reset’ Made the System Better or Worse?, Experts Ask

As the global humanitarian sector grapples with the fallout from sweeping aid cuts imposed in 2025 by the United States administration of Donald Trump and other major donors, a United Nations plan to “reset” the system, unveiled a year ago, …

Luke Lindberg

Trump Nominates an ‘America First’ Advocate to Lead the UN’s World Food Program

The United States has nominated Luke Lindberg, the undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs in the Department of Agriculture, to lead the Rome-based World Food Program, the largest humanitarian agency globally. Lindberg, who lives in South Dakota, most recently …

Pekka Haavisto meets Gen Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan

[UN: March 27] New UN Mideast Envoy, SecGen Race Upsets & Lots More

This Week @UN: Finances of SecGen race; Mideast wars’ toll on kids; “the gravest crime against humanity”; glass ceiling/glass cliff. Plus: Crushing Lebanon; new envoy goes to Khartoum; a new Mideast envoy; helping Cuba; UN SecGen upsets; Strait of Hormuz …

[Feb. 20: UN] Board of Peace Rock ‘n’ Roll, Royal Epstein Fallout & Lots More

This Week @UN: Fixing e-waste economies; US cuts counterextremism funding; UN Security Council’s doubts about Trump’s Board of Peace. Plus: Gaza/West Bank miseries; Jesse Jackson @UN; Board of Peace debut; defending Francesca Albanese; more Epstein “atrocities”; AI dignity; 1 country/4 …

[UN: Feb. 13] New Flareups Over Francesca Albanese, Norwegian Diplomacy Takes a Hit & Lots More

This Week @UN: UK’s women’s rights agenda; battling for a woman SecGen; Board of Peace’s only Palestinian woman. Plus: West Bank encroachments; South Sudan’s volatility; Ukraine’s front line; France lashes out; Haiti’s gang recruitments; #1 olive oil producer. • Stay …

[UN: Jan. 30] Spain Calls for a Woman to Lead UN, Guterres’s Stark Warning & Lots More

This Week @UN: Trump to UN: Drop Dead; a female/feminist SecGen; a UN-merger risk. Plus: Gaza/West Bank/Israel; Holocaust remembrance; UN-Haiti updates; Guterres’s priorities in 2026; UN death spiral. Follow us in real time on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram …

[UN: Jan. 23] Israel Crushes UN Compound, the $108 Billion Pension Fund & Lots More

This Week @UN: A crimes against humanity treaty; Latvia finds its voice; Israel’s UN attack; UN pension review; Gazans adapt to South Africa. Plus: Trump & Gaza; UNDP relos; Greenland/Denmark; Microsoft’s AI push; Syria’s Al Hol camp. Stay current (& …

[UN: Jan. 16] US Board of Peace Members, Big Job Opening & Lots More

This Week @UN: Fighting for postwar justice; European backlash on human rights; the case against military growth; where are the SecGen candidates? Plus: Rage in Iran; Myanmar clashes; Guterres’s final priorities; Trumpland v Greenland; US Board of Peace; UK hoopla. …

Türkiye to Open an UNRWA Office in Ankara as the Agency Confronts Operating Crises

Türkiye has been providing financial support to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) since its founding in 1949. The country is now preparing to host the agency’s fifth liaison office, in …

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