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FILE - Corals grow off Efate Island, Vanuatu, Saturday, July 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Annika Hammerschlag, File)

Climate

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Gaza

Middle East team uncovers sexual exploitation in Gaza

OCT. 10, 2025

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Antoine Polliand, from France, who cycled from Azerbaijan to Portugal with the COP30 Bike Ride, poses with his bicycle in the cargo hold of the Avontuur ship moored in Cascais, outside Lisbon, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. He is part of a group heading to Belem, Brazil, the Amazonian city hosting the U.N. COP30 climate talks in November. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Brazil

Biking to Brazil, activists urge greener transport at UN climate talks

OCT. 8, 2025

Trump
President Donald Trump walks from Marine One with Col. Christopher Robinson, right, commander of the 89th Airlift Wing, to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Politics

Sharp, digitally focused coverage of UN General Assembly resonates with audiences

OCT. 3, 2025

Trump Visas African Leaders
FILE - Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 26, 2024, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

International news

AP breaks news on Trump administration’s visa restrictions — and loosened travel for others

SEPT. 12, 2025

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Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, left, speaks with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, as they pose for a photo with nation leaders and representatives, at the start of the four-day Financing for Development meeting, in Seville, Spain, Monday, June 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Angel Garcia)

Poverty

US skips global UN meeting aimed at raising trillions of dollars to combat poverty

JUNE 30, 2025

UN 80th Anniversary Moments
FILE - President Harry S. Truman and the entire American delegation watch as Sen. Tom Connally signs the United Nations Charter in San Francisco, June 26, 1945. Standing, from left, after Truman are Secretary of State Edward Stettinius Jr.; Harold Edward Stassen; unidentified; Dean Virginia Gildersleeve; Rep. Charles A. Eaton; Rep. Sol Bloom, and Sen. Arthur Vandenberg. (AP Photo, File)

Anniversary

As the United Nations turns 80, some key moments in its history

JUNE 26, 2025

Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
Activists participate in a demonstration for climate finance at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Climate

Money to respond to climate change is key to UN talks in Baku. Nations are finding ways to raise it

NOV. 19, 2024

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan accused of ramping up repression of critics ahead of hosting UN climate summit

NOV. 12, 2024

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With wind turbines in the foreground, steam rises from the coal-fired power station Neurath near the Garzweiler open-pit coal mine in Luetzerath, Germany, Oct. 25, 2021. Coal is the world’s biggest fuel source for generating electric power, and also the single biggest source of greenhouse gases impacting climate. (AP Photo / Michael Probst)

Climate

Planning, expertise, global perspective connect AP readers to Glasgow climate talks

NOV. 12, 2021

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Retired Sri Lanka Army Gen. Jagath Dias speaks during an interview in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Sept. 12, 2016. In 2013, Sri Lanka sent Dias, a top military general, to investigate the alleged rape of a Haitian teenager. Dias, who has been dogged by war crimes allegations himself, never talked to the alleged victim and cleared the soldier. (AP Photo/Rishi Lekhi)

Haiti

How Sri Lanka let U.N. peacekeepers get away with sexual abuse in Haiti

JUNE 2, 2017

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Disaster at sea

Must-read stories: UN sex abuse, El Faro sinking share Beat of the Week honors

APRIL 21, 2017

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