UN chief frontrunner Rebeca Grynspan says UN has 'become too risk-averse'
The United Nations has become too risk-averse and its next leader must be prepared to bear the cost of diplomatic failure and try again, Rebeca
October 16, 2026The United Nations has become too risk-averse and its next leader must be prepared to bear the cost of diplomatic failure and try again, Rebeca
October 16, 2026North Korea's state media KCNA said on Friday that an opening ceremony was held for the Amnok River bridge linking to China, which is also called New Yalu River Bridge.
October 16, 2026The Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are about more than Yemen.
October 15, 2026Ukraine struck a Russian oil refinery on Thursday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv was "done" supporting a ceasefire on energy
October 15, 2026Exclusive: US considering using ‘mother of all bombs’ against Iran, sources say
October 15, 2026Colombia opened its embassy in Jerusalem on Wednesday, becoming the 10th government to do so, as new President Abelardo De La Espriella reversed his predecessor's break
October 14, 2026Poland's foreign minister asked Elon Musk if he was "playing politics" with Starlink in Ukraine on Wednesday, after Kyiv said Space X had introduced a limit on some services
October 14, 2026A new bridge linking China and North Korea is set to open Thursday after more than a decade of delay
October 14, 2026US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington was still sharing intelligence with Ukraine, even as Kyiv reported new Russian
October 13, 2026Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had proposed new talks in the coming days with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner as Washington steps up efforts to
October 14, 2026Eleven sailors were missing at sea on Tuesday from a ship sunk by a drone attack off the coast of Bulgaria, possibly the second deadly sinking of a cargo
October 13, 2026President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Yemen's Houthi militants of deliberately trying to drive up oil prices ahead of the US midterm
October 13, 2026South Korean President Lee Jae Myung on Tuesday welcomed home the first South Korean container ship to sail to Europe and back via the Arctic, as Seoul pushes to
October 13, 2026The Trump administration opposes "coercion and aggression" by China against countries for exercising their sovereign rights, the US State Department said,
October 13, 2026China on Monday placed sanctions on Paraguay's communications minister and the foreign minister of Belize over their countries' ties
October 12, 2026President Donald Trump is criticizing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky amid a US-Russia diesel deal, saying that the country's war with Russia began due to "incompetence" and suggesting that it get a new leader.
October 10, 2026Iran is still reviewing a US response to its proposal regarding the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and will reply to Washington via intermediaries when the review is over,
October 12, 2026South Korea’s military says North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters, adding to a recent streak in weapons demonstrations
October 12, 2026US President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement of an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine on Sunday that he said
October 11, 2026US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday vowed to cooperate with Japanese authorities investigating allegations that a US Marine murdered a woman in Okinawa, a case
October 11, 2026A conversation on Friday between President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump was "very substantive and friendly" and neither leader wanted to be the first to end the call
October 10, 2026How a series of miscalculations restarted Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen
October 10, 2026China's maritime actions off Taiwan's east coast are "deeply destabilising" and only worsen tension, the US State Department said, after Reuters reported the first known
October 10, 2026The Trump administration has imposed sweeping new sanctions on the International Criminal Court as part of its campaign to dismantle the tribunal that the U.S. believes has become politicized and attempted to unfairly and illegally prosecute Americans and Israelis on war crimes charges
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