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United Nations and NATO security compass Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

From disaster to opportunity: A turning point for the United Nations?

By Thomas Walsh

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

The Russians and the world could learn from the diplomacy of Morocco

By Tim Constantine

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks at the North America's Building Trades Unions (NABTU) Legislative Conference at the Washington Hilton in Washington, April 6, 2022. The U.S. economy faces plenty of threats: War in Ukraine, high grocery bills, spiking gasoline prices, splintered supply chains, the lingering pandemic and rising interest rates that slow growth. The Biden White House is betting the U.S. economy is strong enough to withstand these threats, but there are growing fears of a coming economic slump among voters and some Wall Street analysts. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Biden applauds U.N. vote to remove Russia from Human Rights Council

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Volunteers collect bodies of murdered civilians, in Bucha, close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 4, 2022. Russia is facing a fresh wave of condemnation after evidence emerged of what appeared to be deliberate killings of civilians in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine says Russia preparing offensive in southeast

By Oleksandr Stashevskyi - Associated Press

Wind turbines stand in front of the rising sun in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, March 11, 2022. A United Nation-backed panel plans to release a highly anticipated scientific report on Monday, April 4, 2022, on international efforts to curb climate change before global temperatures reach dangerous levels. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’

By Frank Jordans and Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Yemeni police inspect a site of Saudi-led airstrikes targeting two houses in Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Yemen's warring sides have accepted a two-month truce, starting with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the U.N. envoy to Yemen said Friday, April 1. The envoy, Hans Grundberg, announced the agreement from Amman, Jordan, after meeting separately with both sides in the country's brutal civil war in recent days. He said that he hoped the truce would be renewed after two months. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

U.N. says Yemen’s warring parties agree to 2-month truce

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during interview at the United Nations headquarters, Jan. 20, 2022, in New York. The head of the United Nations announced the appointment Thursday, March 31, 2022, of an expert panel led by Canada's former environment minister Catherine McKenna to scrutinize whether companies' efforts to curb climate change are credible or mere ‘greenwashing.’ (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted, File)

UN chief names panel to probe companies’ climate efforts

Associated Press

The regional government headquarters of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, following a Russian attack, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says seven people were killed in a missile strike on the regional government headquarters in the southern city of Mykolayiv. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Live updates: Recall Ukraine ambassadors to Georgia, Morocco

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A small girl looks at her stuffed bear toy as she walks with others fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland, on Tuesday, March 29, 2022. The daily number of people fleeing Ukraine has fallen in recent days, but border guards, aid agencies and refugees say Russia's unpredictable war offers few signs whether it's just a temporary lull or a permanent drop-off. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine, U.N. agency says

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Illustration on the new Cold War with Russia by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Cold War II and Biden’s new ‘new world order’

By Clifford D. May

A Ukrainian flag is installed on an apartment building damaged by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in a village of Lukyanivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Sunday, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo)

Live updates: UN chief wants Ukraine humanitarian cease-fire

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Residents lining up for aid watch as Ukrainian soldiers ride atop a tank in the town of Trostsyanets, Ukraine, Monday, March 28, 2022. Trostsyanets was recently retaken by Ukrainian forces after being held by Russians since the early days of the war. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Russian, Ukrainian delegations to talk Tuesday as more U.S. troops head to Europe

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 22, 2009 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on NATO. Albright has died of cancer, her family said Wednesday, March 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

Madeleine Albright, first female secretary of state, dies of cancer at 84

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Oct. 22, 2009 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on NATO. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

Madeleine Albright, 1st female US secretary of state, dies

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

People carry wooden boards to cover the windows of a building damaged by a bombing the previous day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. As Russia intensified its effort to pound Mariupol into submission, its ground offensive in other parts of Ukraine has become bogged down. Western officials and analysts say the conflict is turning into a grinding war of attrition, with Russia bombarding cities. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine retakes key Kyiv suburb; battle for Mariupol rages

By Nebi Qena and Cara Anna - Associated Press

Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean sexual slavery survivor who has been demanding since the early 1990s that the Japanese government fully accept culpability and offer an unequivocal apology, speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) ** FILE **

South Korean slavery victim seeks U.N. justice as time runs out

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo provided by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority small fish school in waters of Ribbon Reef No 10 near Cairns, Australia, Sept. 12, 2017. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering widespread and severe coral bleaching due to high ocean temperatures two years after a mass bleaching event, a government agency said on Friday, March 18, 2022. (J. Sumerling/Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority via AP)

Great Barrier Reef suffers widespread coral bleaching

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

United Nations Security Council, Putin and Ukraine Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Backing Zelenskyy’s new United Nations

By Tom Basile

A Ukrainian soldier looks through binoculars at a military check point, in Lityn, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Live updates: Zelenskyy mum on specifics of new US aid

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

South Korean Navy's patrol ships search for survivors from the sunken South Korean navy ship near South Korea's Baekryeong island, March 29, 2010. South Korea said Tuesday, March 8, 2022, it fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat that temporarily crossed the countries' disputed western sea boundary while chasing an unarmed North Korean vessel. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Satellite images show activity at North Korean nuclear site

By Kim Tong-Hyung and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press