The Iraqi government has requested the United Nations end a mission set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in ...

The 193-member world body approved the Arab and Palestinian sponsored resolution by a vote of 143-9 with 25 abstentions.

The United States among a handful of holdouts on the vote, which was widely seen as a rebuke of the Americans and Israel.

The vote comes after the United States last month vetoed a Security Council measure granting full U.N. membership to a ...

A General Assembly resolution in support of Palestinian membership and granting new procedural rights has passed with 143 ...

The General Assembly may grant Palestinians member status, doing an end run around the Security Council.

The U.N. General Assembly voted by a wide margin on Friday to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and called on ...

Under the U.N. Charter, membership is granted “by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security ...

The action provides the legal basis for a president — a future President Donald Trump, say, — to finally end all US funding ...

Under the UN Charter, prospective members must be 'peace-loving,' and the Security Council must recommend their admission to ...

YouTube Screenshots A UN independent human rights expert warned on Friday that the recent increase in student protest attacks ...

Washington's UN representative votes against Palestinian membership, saying measures at United Nations won't advance U.S. and ...