Opinion Columnist, reporting from Washington. I saw the charismatic Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda lead the National Symphony Orchestra on Thursday, in a program called “Songs of Destiny & Fate.” ...

The QR code is part of a broader Israeli public-diplomacy push in New York this week. Dozens of billboard trucks and digital screens near the UN headquarters. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened ...

U.S. President Donald Trump drew criticism after signaling support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s cease-fire proposal during talks in Alaska on Friday, a move that critics said legitimized ...

Donald Trump demanded that unhoused Washington, D.C., residents “have to move out [of the city] IMMEDIATELY.” The statement comes amid his continuing attacks on homeless people after signing an ...

UN Concerned by Taliban’s Arrest of Afghan Women and Girls for Dress Code Violations ISLAMABAD (AP) — The United Nations on Monday expressed concern about the Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and ...

The United Nations Ocean Conference, held June 9-13 in Nice, France, saw some progress on better protecting the hundreds of thousands of species that live in marine waters and the communities that ...

LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - The third U.N. Ocean Conference in France last week yielded a number of financial deals and money pledges to help protect the seas, although the gap between funding and the ...

13 June 2025 — Ships in the port of Nice sounded their fog-horns on Friday, a brassy crescendo to a rare moment of global unity as the Third UN Ocean Conference drew to a close. Moments earlier, more ...

With 256 island and coastal biosphere reserves across 82 countries, and 51 marine sites on the World Heritage List, UNESCO is helping to safeguard some of the world’s most remarkable ocean ecosystems.

Oceans have absorbed enough heat since the Paris Agreement was signed to match the energy of 1.7 billion atomic bomb explosions, scientists warned just as the UN Ocean Conference got underway in Nice.