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The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to demand a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza in a strong demonstration of global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war. The vote also showed the growing isolation of the United States and Israel.

“The world is bigger than five” has been his dictum over the past several years. He wants to have a veto power, via the UN, over a new world order

NEW YORK - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday in New York he had had a good meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and that he had informed the UN's top official of the situation in Kosovo-Metohija.

NEW YORK - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic attended a reception hosted by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York for heads of delegations attending the UN General Assembly session.

In a grim report, the U.N. has warned that at the current rate of global progress 575 million people will still be living in extreme poverty and 84 million children won't be going to school in 2030 - and it will take 286 years to reach equality between men and women.

From the ashes of World War II, three institutions were created as linchpins of a new global order. Now, in an unusual move, the top official in one — the secretary-general of the United Nations — is pressing for major changes in the other two.

Greece congratulated Slovenia, its partner and ally in the European Union, for its election as member of the UN Security Council for the term 2014-2025, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday.

The FM also congratulated Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone, and South Korea who were elected new members of the UN Security Council for 2024-2025.

Slovenia has been elected a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2024-2025, securing the requisite two-thirds majority among UN member states in the first round of voting on 6 June to beat Belarus in the Eastern European group.

"The International Monetary Fund has yet to record enough banks cutting back on lending, and that could prompt the US Federal Reserve to reverse course with the rate hike cycle". This was stated by the managing director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, in an interview with CNBC, quoted by Reuters.

Over the past 75 years, the United Nations sent more than 2 million peacekeepers to help countries move away from conflict, with successes from Liberia to Cambodia and major failures in former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.