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Adla Massoud

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Adla Massoud is The National’s New York and United Nations correspondent, where she reports on diplomacy, politics and the Middle East’s shifting conflicts. Also a documentary filmmaker, she was recognised in 2022 by the Arab Film and Media Institute as one of six “Rising Arab Women in Filmmaking.”
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A UN weapons expert collects samples on August 29, 2013, during an investigation into a suspected chemical weapons strike near Damascus. AFP
Syria begins destroying chemical weapon materials in break with Assad era

Damascus worked with global watchdog to identify matter that should be eradicated

MENASeptember 03, 2026
(FILES) Beachgoers sit on the beach of Moutchic in Lacanau, southwestern France on July 24, 2026, as clouds of smoke rise into the sky from a wildfire. For a long time, summer was the season of fine weather, the one people waited for impatiently but this year, it often turned into a climate nightmare with deserted terraces, shutters closed in broad daylight, landscapes turned into arid expanses or raging infernos, and that exhausting heat that seemed never to end, making the summer of 2026, the one when climate change forced itself, brutally, into Europeans’ daily lives. (Photo by Maximilien LAMY / AFP)
UN warns world will breach critical 1.5°C warming limit within years

Above that limit, extreme weather, glacier melting, ecosystem loss and sea-level rises would intensify

USSeptember 02, 2026
Kaja Kallas, the European Commission's foreign policy chief, right, and Ireland's Defence and Foreign Minister Helen McEntee. AFP
More than 10 EU countries 'eager to contribute to Lebanon mission'

International coalition force opposed by Israel, which is fighting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon

EuropeSeptember 01, 2026
US President Donald Trump addresses the UN General Assembly last year. AFP
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UNGA 2026: Iran, AI and the race to lead the UN

What's the schedule for member states addressing the General Assembly?

USSeptember 01, 2026
People wave Libyan flags during a demonstration in Benghazi, in 2014. Reuters
Libya rival factions sign UN-backed deal to pave way for national elections

Agreement sealed in Tripoli after months of talks in Rome and Tunis

USAugust 30, 2026
Destruction in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. AFP
Gaza ceasefire heading for 'point of no return', says Board of Peace chief envoy

Hamas has agreed on road map to transfer authority and hand over weapons, but Mladenov says collapse of truce would be catastrophic

USAugust 26, 2026
Firefighters work to extinguish a blaze near a car dealership after a missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, in January 2024. EPA
More than 50 UN member states urge Russia to accept full ceasefire in Ukraine

Group uses Kyiv's 35th anniversary of independence from the Soviet Union to push for return to peace talks

USAugust 24, 2026
An electricity transformer that was hit by a drone strike in El Droshab, Khartoum North, as the civil war shows no sign of abating. AFP
UN aid chief condemns world's lack of action on Sudan

More than two thirds of African nation's population in dire need of life-saving aid, as civil war wreaks havoc

MENAAugust 24, 2026
A vessel near the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman. Reuters
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UN proposes mechanism to protect fertiliser flow through Hormuz

Oil prices remain about 33 per cent higher since start of conflict

USAugust 24, 2026
President of the UN Security Council, Ambassador Christina Markus Lassen of Denmark, presides over a UN Security Council meeting in New York. EPA
Security Council holds second secret straw poll for next UN chief

Guyana's Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett receives most votes out of eight candidates

USAugust 21, 2026
Ivonne Baki, Ecuador's former ambassador to the US and candidate to be secretary general of the UN, speaks to the General Assembly on August 20.
UN secretary general candidate Ivonne Baki calls for Security Council overhaul

Ecuadorian official, who is of Lebanese descent, says the world is on the brink of war

USAugust 20, 2026
Russian Ambassador to the UN Vasily Nebenzya, right, during a UN Security Council meeting at UN headquarters in New York in 2024. AFP
Iran sanctions dispute paralyses UN Security Council in record deadlock

Council has yet to agree on committee leaders and deputy leaders for 2026

USAugust 19, 2026
Judge Tomoko Akane at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. AFP
US sanctions imposed on ICC president and senior lawyer in campaign against court

Marco Rubio says they have tried to 'investigate, arrest, detain or prosecute officials whose government has not consented to ICC jurisdiction'

USAugust 18, 2026
Supporters of Hezbollah wave Lebanese, Iranian and Hezbollah flags during a gathering in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon. EPA
US congressional delegation presses Lebanon on Hezbollah disarmament

Delegation to Beirut, organised by American Task Force on Lebanon, included Republican and Democratic staff

USAugust 17, 2026
Indian pupils take part in the global commemoration of the 1945 atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. EPA
World in most dangerous nuclear era in decades, UN chief warns

Sabre rattling amid Iran war has eroded progress as worldwide military spending surges

USAugust 06, 2026
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