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Outgoing U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held his final year-end news conference. Topics include conflict in South Sudan, as well as the humanitarian situation in Syria.

Chadian President Idriss Deby delivered remarks during the opening of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquaters in New York City.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon addressed world leaders for the final time at the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly in New York City. He called on political leaders to not enga…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon spoke to reporters following a Security Council meeting. He condemned North Korea’s announcement that the nation has successfully tested a hydrog…

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew led a meeting of U.N. Security Council finance ministers on ways to cut off ISIS financing. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State of…

Secretary of State John Kerry chaired a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Syrian civil war and international efforts to combat ISIS.* Foreign affairs ministers from Security Council membe…

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon briefed reporters and answered their questions in his year-end news conference. Topics included combating terrorism, the Syrian refugee crisis, a…

After two weeks of negotiations in Paris, representatives from 195 countries agreed to an international climate agreement. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon spoke to reporters in New York C…

President Obama and world leaders from China, Russia, South Korea, and Iran addressed the United Nations General Assembly.

President Obama chaired a meeting with world leaders at the United Nations on ongoing efforts to combat the threat of ISIS* militants in the Middle East, Europe, and beyond. The president sa…

Pope Francis addressed the United Nations General Assembly. He talked about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, climate change, and the Iran nuclear agreement. There was no English t…

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon spoke with reporters about the conflict in Yemen and the ISIS takeover of the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria. The Islamic State …

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon spoke to reporters following a speech before the General Assembly laying out his priorities for 2015. He responded to questions on topics including the ter…

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon gave his priorities for 2015 at an informal meeting of the General Assembly.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon made a statement about the mass shooting at the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Twelve people were killed. He called the attack “d…

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon briefed reporters and answered their questions in his year-end news conference. He called the decision to normalize relations between the U.S. an…

President Obama presided over a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to urge the adoption of a resolution requiring countries to prosecute “foreign fighters,” individuals who leave…

World leaders delivered speeches before the United Nations General Assembly. Their remarks followed a speech by President Obama, who called on member countries to support the coalition again…

The United Nations Security Council held an emergency meeting to address the Ebola virus outbreak in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea, and that had also reached Nigeria and Senegal. U.N. Se…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon held a news conference at U.N. headquarters in New York City. He gave an update on the Ebola virus outbreak in Western Africa, and the situation …