United Nations

Jessica Cunnington with the details for NBC New York. 

Nearly three dozen people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest in Herald Square Tuesday, and authorities are bracing for more potential uproar with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to arrive in the city for the United Nations General Assembly later this week. A breakdown of Tuesday’s arrests wasn’t immediately available. Netanyahu is expected to arrive in New York...

United Nations General Assembly welcomes hundreds of dignitaries each year to NYC. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino chats with Special Agent Chris Balsam on his work within the Moblie Security Deployment.

Nearly three dozen people were arrested at a pro-Palestinian protest in Herald Square Tuesday, and authorities are bracing for more potential uproar with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to arrive in the city for the United Nations General Assembly later this week. A breakdown of Tuesday’s arrests wasn’t immediately available. Netanyahu is expected to arrive in New York...

Melissa Colorado reporting on ‘All out for Lebanon’ protest being held in Herald Square. 

President Joe Biden made his final speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday and spoke about support for Ukraine and challenges with artificial intelligence.

Biden used his wide-ranging address on Tuesday to speak to the need to end the Middle East conflict and highlight U.S. and Western allies’ support for Kyiv after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

What you need to know to get around during the slowest week for traffic in NYC. NBC New York’s Gus Rosendale reports.

Next week’s high-level meeting of the U.N. General Assembly is bringing more than 140 world leaders to New York City, including the leaders of Israel, the Palestinians and Ukraine. Keeping them safe is the U.S. Secret Service’s next big challenge. The agency, under a cloud after a July assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, is confident in its multi-layer,...

It’s not a great moment in world affairs right now. The world is fragmented. Conflicts and crises are raging. It’s against this backdrop that world leaders are attending this week’s annual U.N. gathering.

The NYPD will be making sure world leaders get to and from the UN General Assembly over the next 10 days. Interim Police Commissioner Thomas Donlon addressed security concerns, saying officers will be seen everywhere, but that’s not all: There will also be some security measures the public won’t see. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

The top U.N. envoy for Syria told the Security Council the threat of terrorism is “resurging” with attacks by Islamic State extremists set to double this year, endangering civilians already facing a “protracted state of displacement and dire humanitarian conditions.”

The world’s population is expected to grow by more than 2 billion people in the next decades and peak in the 2080s at around 10.3 billion, a major shift from a decade ago, a new report by the United Nations said Thursday.

Artificial intelligence could be misused to spread misleading or false claims about the Holocaust. That’s the warning from a new UNESCO report.

The total global volume of fish, shrimp, clams and other aquatic animals that are harvested by farming has topped the amount fished in the wild from the world’s waters for the first time ever, the United Nations reported Friday.

Qatar and Saudi Arabia have condemned an Israeli parliamentary bill that seeks to label UNRWA, the main provider of aid for Palestinians in Gaza, a terrorist group. They join a growing list of countries to speak out against the proposal. The bill, which passed a preliminary vote in parliament last week, is the product of increasingly tense relations between Israel...

The U.N. General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and has called on the Security Council to favorably reconsider its request to become the 194th member of the United Nations.

A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022.

U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further.

Former U.N. diplomat Giandomenico Picco has died at the age of 75. Picco, whose negotiating skills helped resolve some of the thorniest crises of the 1980s and 1990s, died on Sunday after a long illness, his son, Giacomo Picco, said.