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US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during the Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters, Friday, Dec. 22, 2023. After many delays, the U.N. Security Council adopted a watered-down resolution Friday calling for immediately speeding up aid deliveries to desperate civilians in Gaza but without the original call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

U.N. approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

The United Nations in Gaza illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Move the United Nations to Gaza

By Don Feder

The Washington Times' Tim Constantine and For America's David Bozell sit down to discuss what problems Republicans have with the UN and why the campaign to leave could be a winning issue amongst voters.

Washington Times ForAmerica: Should the United States leave the United Nations?

Palestinians line up for a free meal in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. International aid agencies say Gaza is suffering from shortages of food, medicine and other basic supplies as a result of the two and a half month war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

U.N.: More than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war

By Najib Jobain, Jack Jeffery and Colleen Barry - Associated Press

North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song addresses a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation/North Korea, Thursday, July 13, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. North Korea and Russia clashed with the United States, South Korea and their allies at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday, Dec. 19, on Pyongyang’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, which it called “a warning counter-measure” to threats from the U.S. and other hostile forces. Song called this “the most dangerous year” for security on the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

North Korea, Russia clash with U.S., South Korea and allies over Pyongyang’s latest missile launch

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment on Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Talks on Gaza cease-fire and freeing more hostages as Hamas leader is in Egypt

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians search for bodies and survivors in the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

U.N. Security Council to vote on resolution urging cessation of hostilities in Gaza to deliver aid

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Relatives of the Al Jazeera cameraman, Samer Abu Daqqa, who was killed by an Israeli airstrike, mourn his death, during his funeral in the town of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Communications blackout and spiraling hunger compound misery in Gaza Strip as war enters 11th week

Associated Press

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, right, greets United Nations Climate Chief Simon Stiell at a plenary stocktaking session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

Critics pan draft text at U.N. climate talks as watered down as COP28 nears its finale in Dubai

By Jon Gambrell, Jamey Keaten and Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

FILE - Chinese President Xi Jinping sits next to other world leaders during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference in San Francisco, on Nov. 16, 2023. Xi met at a state guesthouse in Beijing with the two European presidents, Ursula von der Leyen from the EU Commission and Charles Michel from the EU Council on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

China’s race to dominate deep seabed minerals

By John Norton Moore

COP28 President Sultan al-Jaber, left, and John Kerry, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, speak as they attend a meeting at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

At COP28, sticking points remain on fossil fuels and adapting to climate as talks near crunch time

By Sibi Arasu and Seth Borenstein and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

An Afghan women's soccer team poses for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022. The Taliban must embrace and uphold human rights obligations in Afghanistan, the U.N. mission in the country said Sunday, Dec. 10, 2023, on Human Rights Day and the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have erased basic rights and freedoms, with women and girls deeply affected. They are excluded from most public spaces and daily life, and the restrictions have sparked global condemnation. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

U.N. says the Taliban must embrace and uphold human rights obligations in Afghanistan

Associated Press

U.N. agency warns of Afghans dying in harsh winter if no proper shelter after leaving Pakistan

Associated Press

Reporters raise their hands to ask questions as Foreign Ministers, from left, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Palestinian Minister of Foreign Affairs Riyad al-Maliki, Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi, and Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minister Sameh Shoukry, attend a news conference about the Israel-Hamas war, and pressure to reduce civilian casualties, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

U.S. vetoes U.N. resolution demanding immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Palestinians wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip arrive at a hospital in Khan Younis on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Palestinians crowd into ever-shrinking areas in Gaza as Israel’s war against Hamas enters 3rd month

By Najib Jobain, Bassem Mroue and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

UN soldiers stand guard in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Nov. 30, 2012. The United Nations Peacekeeping efforts is under resourced as its $5.5 billion budget for worldwide operations is less than the New York Police Department's $6.1 billion budget, even though it has 30,000 more personnel, the UN Under-Secretary General, Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023 at a two-day UN Peacekeeping Ministerial Meeting in Accra, Ghana. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

United Nations bemoans struggles to fund peacekeeping as nations demand withdrawal of missions

Associated Press

FILE - Activists participate in a demonstration for loss and damage at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

Climate talks shift into high gear. Now words and definitions matter at COP28

By Seth Borenstein, David Keyton, Joshua A. Bickel and Sibi Arasu - Associated Press

Live updates | Widening Israeli offensive in southern Gaza worsens dire humanitarian conditions

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Destroyed buildings from Israeli airstrike are seen in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Live updates | Widening Israeli offensive in southern Gaza worsens dire humanitarian conditions

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Live updates | Fighting in southern Gaza city as Israel widens its offensive

By The Associated Press - Associated Press