Rebeca Grynspan of Costa Rica maintained a firm lead in the latest informal straw poll held by the United Nations Security ...

The United Nations Security Council's most recent straw poll, held on Oct. 16, showed both a possible breakthrough and the ...

Just hours before Lana Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates was scheduled to defend her candidacy for the post of United ...

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As a candidate, Nusseibeh will undoubtedly face scrutiny about the Emirates’ human rights record both in the country and ...

US Ambassador Mike Waltz led a panel event at the UN on the status of human rights in Cuba, Oct. 19, 2026, about a week ...

About 32 million acres of South Pacific seabed off American Samoa could be auctioned in November in what would be the world’s ...

The 15-member Security Council held its sixth straw poll in the selection procedure of the next UN boss. The ballots were color-coded for the first time in the process to differentiate the choices of ...

Ambassador Aglaia Balta of Greece to the UN speaking to reporters, Oct. 1, 2026. Her country holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month, and amid a packed schedule in the body, ...

Jeff Bartos, US envoy to the UN on management and reform, far right, with fellow American diplomats, leaving the UN Security Council closed-door meeting to vote in the latest straw poll in the process ...

Binaifer Nowrojee, president of the nonprofit Open Society Foundations, June 2026. In an interview recently during the UN General Assembly high-level week, Nowrojee talked about what the world wants ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... An intense flurry of activity took place among the numerous United Nations secretary-general candidates during the high-level week of the ...