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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who President-elect Joe Biden has nominated as U.S. ambassador the United Nations, said she has a message for diplomats around the world. “America is back,” Thomas-Greenfield said. “Multilateralism is back. Diplomacy is back.”

President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Linda Thomas-Greenfield as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Here are five things to know about the career diplomat.

The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year

The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program is sounding an alarm that war-torn Yemen faces “looming famine.”

The U.N. chief is appealing for a cease-fire across Myanmar to tackle surging COVID-19 cases ahead of Sunday’s elections

The president of the United Nations General Assembly wasn’t happy that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio rejected a meeting with him to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of the 193-member world organization

The Nobel committee awarded the world’s most prestigious prize, the Nobel Peace Prize, to the United Nation’s World Food Program as it urged countries to continue funding it. The program, located in more than 80 countries, provides food to people caught up in conflict and disasters.

This year’s U.N. General Assembly came as the world body prepared to commemorate a milestone in women’s rights: the 25th anniversary of the Beijing women’s conference that produced a global roadmap for gender equality.

Leaders of countries once subjugated to Western powers spoke out about still-stinging scars of colonialism at this year’s U.N. General Assembly.

At the 75th annual United Nations General Assembly, world leaders are floating solutions to combating the coronavirus while sometimes criticizing other nations and arguing the U.N. itself needs reform

President Donald Trump is demanding that the United Nations hold China accountable for the coronavirus pandemic as he defends his own handling of COVID-19 in America where the death toll has topped 200,000

In a normal September, leaders of nations big and small would converge on New York this week

The United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary with its chief urging leaders of an increasingly polarized, go-it-alone world to work together and preserve the organization’s most important success since its founding

With the pandemic still in force, world leaders are skipping the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering in New York

A former United Nations employee was charged with two counts of making false statements to federal agents in an effort to conceal his drugging and sexual assault of multiple women while he worked for the intergovernmental organization, according to federal officials. Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr.,…

The president of the U.N. Security Council has rejected the Trump administration’s demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran

The Trump administration ran into immediate opposition after its top diplomat officially informed the United Nations it is demanding the restoration of all U.N. sanctions on Iran

The United States is demanding that all United Nations sanctions be reimposed against Iran, a move that follows America’s embarrassing failure to extend an arms embargo against Tehran.

President Donald Trump announced at a press conference on Wednesday that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to notify the United Nations that the U.S. will attempt to reinstate sanctions on Iran through what’s called a “snapback procedure.”

The U.N. Security Council has resoundingly defeated a U.S. resolution to indefinitely extend the U.N. arms embargo on Iran, with the Trump administration getting support from only the Dominican Republic