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The United Nations (UN), is an intergovernmental organization responsible for maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and being a center for harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world. The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City; other main offices are in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and The Hague.

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'Let others speak': Teen activist Greta Thunberg shines light on other climate stories 01:13

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Teen activist Greta Thunberg uses platform at climate talks to shine light on other people's stories 01:13

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Chinese official blasts U.S. for Xinjiang bills 01:38

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Chinese official blasts U.S. for Xinjiang bill 01:37

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Rohingya refugees demand justice at Myanmar World Court case

Rohingya Muslims demanded Myanmar be held to account at the United Nations' top court in The Hague, where Myanmar leader and Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San..

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Climate change: UN negotiators 'playing politics' amid global crisis

Political posturing is harming attempts to address key issues at the UN climate talks, participants say.

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Myanmar leader Suu Kyi departs for genocide hearings amid fanfare at home 00:57

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French activists demand stronger action on climate 00:45

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North Korea Is Done Talking Denuclearization With The US 00:36

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Denuclearization off negotiating table - N. Korea's U.N. envoy 01:18

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North Korea's U.N. envoy says denuclearization off negotiating table with United States

North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations said on Saturday that denuclearization is already off the negotiating table with the United States and lengthy..

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Activist Thunberg warns governments in Madrid that 'change is coming'

Teen activist Greta Thunberg took her call for bold action to tackle climate change to a U.N. summit in Spain on Friday, warning world leaders that a growing..

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Activist Thunberg warns U.N. climate summit that leaders cannot hide

Teen activist Greta Thunberg took her call for bold action to tackle climate change to a U.N. summit in Spain on Friday, warning world leaders that a growing..

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Greta at United Nations climate talks one year apart

Life has changed a lot for the environmental activist in the space of a year.

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U.S. has not yet decided whether to hold U.N. meeting on North Korea rights abuses

The United States has not yet decided whether to hold a United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss human rights abuses in North Korea on Tuesday, said..

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U.N. human rights chief denounces Iran security forces for using 'severe violence' against protesters

Iranian security forces have shot at protesters from helicopters and a rooftop and have aimed at peoples' heads in using "severe violence" to quell..

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Greta Thunberg draws a crowd upon arrival in Spain 00:58

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Factbox: Genocide case against Myanmar to be heard at highest U.N. court

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi will head a team of lawyers to hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague next week to defend the country..

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Iran vows to continue missile work, dismisses EU powers' U.N. letter

Iran on Thursday rejected pressure to shelve its ballistic missile program after a European letter to the U.N. Security Council accused Tehran of developing..

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Iran says it will continue ballistic missile program: tweet

Iran said in a letter to the United Nations on Thursday that it is determined to go ahead with its disputed ballistic missile program, according to a copy of the..

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Iran ballistic activities do not conform with U.N. resolution: France

France said on Thursday that Iran's ballistic missile activities did not conform with a U.N. Security Council resolution enshrining a nuclear deal with world..

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EU powers' letter to U.N. on Iran's missiles shows 'miserable incompetence': Zarif

Iran said on Thursday a letter from three European powers to the U.N. Security Council accusing Tehran of having nuclear-capable ballistic missiles showed their..

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Up to 57 dead after migrant boat sinks off Mauritanian coast: U.N. agency

Up to 57 people have died after a ship from Gambia carrying around 150 migrants sank off the coast of Mauritania on Wednesday, the U.N. migration agency said.

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Brazil could lose its U.N. vote due to debt

Brazil is in danger of losing its vote at the cash-strapped United Nations if it does not pay some of the $400 million it owes by the end of the year, U.N. and..

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House Reps overwhelmingly pass bill on Uighurs 01:39

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Setting Iran deadlines 'might not be the best idea': new IAEA chief

Setting Iran deadlines to explain how uranium particles were found in an undeclared Tehran warehouse could be counter-productive, the new U.N. nuclear watchdog..

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UN Chief Warns Climate Change Is at 'Point of No Return' 01:30

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Activist Thunberg channels youth fury to U.N. climate summit

Teen activist Greta Thunberg reached Europe on Tuesday after a 21-day catamaran dash across the Atlantic for a United Nations summit where she will invoke the..

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Activist Thunberg takes youth angst to U.N. climate summit

Teen activist Greta Thunberg reached Europe on Tuesday after a 21-day catamaran dash across the Atlantic for a United Nations summit where she will invoke the..

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World has not done enough over Khashoggi killing: U.N. investigator

The world has not done enough to ensure justice is done over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a special U.N. investigator said on Tuesday.

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Wild plants offer a lifeline as staple crops fail to cope with climate change 02:23

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Amnesty: Four million disabled people lack basic care in Yemen 01:34

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U.N. sends troops to halt bout of ethnic violence in South Sudan

The United Nations has sent a contingent of peacekeepers to an area of central South Sudan where about 80 people have been killed in a bout of fighting between..

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U.N. to deliver food aid to 4.1 million in Zimbabwe, fears 'major crisis'

The United Nations said on Tuesday it was procuring food assistance for 4.1 million Zimbabweans, a quarter of the population in a country where shortages are..

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U.N. to deliver food aid to 4.1 million hungry in Zimbabwe

The U.N. food agency said on Tuesday it was procuring 240,000 tonnes of food assistance to deliver to 4.1 million people in Zimbabwe where food shortages are..

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Mostly children and women among dead in southern Libya air attack 02:26

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Heavy gunfire erupts as DR Congo's anti-UN protests continue 03:31

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COP25 in Madrid: UN Secretary-General Guterres says planet is 'close to a point of no return' 05:42

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Climate change: The COP25 talks trying to change the world

As the UN has its annual climate change conference, we look at what it's for and if it ever makes a difference.

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Climate protesters demonstrate near COP25 venue 00:56

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Don't fiddle while the planet burns, U.N. chief warns climate summit

The world must choose hope over surrender in the fight against climate change, U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Monday, warning a summit in Madrid..

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Pelosi vows U.S. will meet goals of COP25 01:09

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U.N. chief opens climate summit with call for hope over 'surrender'

The world must choose hope over surrender in the fight against climate change, U.N. secretary-general Antonio Guterres said on Monday, warning a summit in Madrid..

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Brazil's climate negotiators in dark on Bolsonaro's aims: sources

Brazil's negotiators already face a tough job at United Nations climate talks, given anger at President Jair Bolsonaro's stance on the Amazon, but it has become..

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UN chief warns of 'point of no return' on climate change 02:51

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'This is a mission and we are still in it,' Pelosi tells Climate Conference 00:43

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UN's Guterres: War Against Nature Must Stop 00:45

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Bank of England's Carney to become U.N. climate finance envoy

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney will lead a push by the United Nations to make the finance sector take proper account of the risks posed by climate change,..

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Hundreds rally in Yangon in support of Suu Kyi 00:44

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'War against nature must stop,' U.N. chief says before climate talks

The world must stop a "war against nature" and find more political will to combat climate change, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on..

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"Point of no return" is hurtling towards us, says UN head 01:30

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Calls for sustainable farming in the face of climate change 03:01

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DR Congo anger grows over deadly unrest 02:39

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DR Congo: At least 19 killed in new rebel attack near Beni 02:46

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Global temperature rises could bring 'destructive' effects, UN warns 02:23

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WHO pulls dozens of staff from DRC amid mounting insecurity 07:26