The minister for defence and his officials are being asked why they did not check — while visiting the UN General Assembly last week — that the exit paperwork for 130 Irish troops currently stranded in the Middle East was properly completed.

These shipments are rarely just about saving lives, writes Morten Wendelbo.

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which has played a pivotal role in the quest for global justice, writes TP O’Mahony.

Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney has outlined Ireland's case for membership of the UN Security Council in New York.

The world-famous Harlem Gospel Choir, which has perfomed alongside Bono and sang for popes and the UN General Assembly, is to perform at Cork Opera House.

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will no longer accept any US plans for peace in the Middle East because of the Trump administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

Arab foreign ministers have demanded that the United States rescind Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, calling it a "grave" development that puts Washington on the same side as "occupation" and the violation of international law.

Priti Patel is thought to be on her way to Downing Street to learn her fate, after being summoned back from an official visit to Africa by Prime Minister Theresa May.

Diplomats from the United States, South Korea and Japan met in Seoul today to discuss policy responses to North Korea's accelerating efforts to expand its nuclear weapons programme.

With the US and Europe rolling back their foreign aid commitments,only China can fill the vacuum, say Asit K Biswas and Kris Hartley.

North Korea's deputy UN ambassador warned Monday that the situation on the Korean peninsula "has reached the touch-and-go point and a nuclear war may break out any moment".

French far-left leader Jean-Luc Melenchon has rallied disaffected voters against President Emmanuel Macron's plan to weaken worker protections.

Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has cancelled plans to attend the UN General Assembly, a government spokesman said as the country draws international criticism over violence against ethnic Rohingya Muslims.

If we are serious about ending torture and capital punishment, we must do more than make lofty promises, writes Jorge Faurie, Cecilia Malmstrom, and Tsend Munkh-Orgil

Renowned former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte is resigning from the UN's Syria panel, saying in five years it has had no success at all.

Chernobyl crusaders Adi Roche and Ali Hewson are taking several core donors who helped sustain their charity during the recession on a fact-finding mission to the nuclear disaster-affected region today.

Concern has been expressed that any evidence given to the Mother and Baby Homes Commission is not admissible in any future criminal proceedings.

Teenagers at a North Cork school brought children from Angola, Portugal, Spain, Germany and Austria to Cork City Hall to join pupils from 22 Irish second- level schools as part of the country’s largest model United Nations conference.

The United Nations agreed last night to an Irish charity’s call to designate April 26 as UN International Chernobyl Day as a lasting reminder of the world’s worst nuclear accident.

Josh Lowe, Owen Matthews and Matt McAllester examine what’s happening in Europe to try to understand what’s behind the emergence and spread of the current global populist revolt

Humanitarian Adi Roche has called on the global community to honour the sacrifice of Chernobyl’s forgotten hero ‘liquidators’.

Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, a catastrophic incident that killed hundreds and still affects the lives of thousands of people in northern Ukraine, as well as neighbouring Belarus and Russia.

Humanitarian Adi Roche will today call on the UN to create a “clean food fund”, to improve food monitoring, and to reinstate radiation health checks for people living in Chernobyl-contaminated regions.

Humanitarian Adi Roche is to make a landmark address to the UN General Assembly in New York to mark the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster the week after next.

There are “virtually no limitations” to the range of chemicals used to produce so-called new psychoactive drugs, the world’s drug law watchdog has said.

A former president of the UN General Assembly has been arrested and charged with accepting over $1m in bribes from a billionaire Chinese property mogul and other businesspeople to pave the way for lucrative investments.

Israel’s military deployed hundreds of troops in the West Bank after a drive-by shooting by suspected Palestinian gunmen killed a Jewish settler couple in front of their children as they were driving home.

Russian military jets have carried out air strikes in Syria for the first time, targeting what Moscow said were IS positions.

President Barack Obama and Iran’s foreign minister shook hands when they ran into one another on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Sustainable development goals are all very well, but they do not mean much if those aiming for them are ignoring their targets, says Éamonn Meehan            

Six French jet fighters targeted and destroyed an Islamic State (IS) training camp in eastern Syria, president Francois Hollande said yesterday, making good on a promise to go after the group he said is planning attacks against several countries, including France.

Six French fighter jets have targeted and destroyed a training camp run by the so-called 'Islamic State' group in eastern Syria, President Francois Hollande has confirmed.

Tackling the twin challenges of sustainable development and climate change is vital for the UN but its founding principle was peace, the edifice upon which it was built, and it must now step up to the plate and find a way to end the slaughter in Syria, writes Barry Andrews

The UN General Assembly has approved a resolution setting out nine principles to restructure national debts, calling on debtors and creditors “to act in good faith and with a cooperative spirit” to reach an agreement.

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Western nations and Russia are duelling over whether the UN Security Council should call the Srebrenica massacre during the Bosnian war a genocide in a resolution commemorating the 20th anniversary of Europe’s worst mass killing since the Second World War.

The Vatican has signed a treaty with Palestine, saying it hoped its legal recognition of the state would help stimulate peace with Israel and that the treaty itself would serve as a model for other Middle East countries.

Kitty Scully looks at the ecosystems of soil for UN Year of Soils and shows how intrinsic it is to all human life.

Sharks, rays, and many other components of marine biodiversity are struggling to withstand human pressures, writes Derek Tittensor

The head of a UN Commission of Inquiry said more efforts were needed, including the use of balloons and computer hacking, to tell the North Korean people about its damning report on human rights conditions in their country run by Kim Jong-Un.

Stung by a resounding defeat at the UN Security Council, the Palestinians have joined the International Criminal Court to pursue war crimes charges against Israel.

The world’s boldest effort yet to hold North Korea and leader Kim Jong Un accountable for alleged crimes against humanity moved forward yesterday at the UN, where a Pyongyang envoy threatened further nuclear tests.