Russia gets the microphone at the U.N. world leaders' meeting Saturday, three years into an invasion of Ukraine that the international community has broadly deplored and a that powerful member newly says Ukraine can repel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out on Friday at Western countries’ recent recognition of Palestinian statehood, accusing world leaders of “buckling under the pressure of a biased media,

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke at the U.N. General Assembly at a time when unauthorized flights into NATO’s airspace — intrusions blamed on Russia — have raised alarm around Europe in recent weeks, particularly after NATO jets downed drones over Poland and Estonia said Russian fighter jets flew into its territory and lingered for 12 minutes.

Netanyahu repeatedly suggested Israelis and Americans shared a plight of the same existential threat, including references to 9/11 and holding up a card citing extremists who shout “death to America” - the subtext being Israel was doing the “dirty work” of taking out their shared enemies.

UNITED NATIONS -- Many leaders saying many things about many topics that matter to them, to their regions, to the world: That’s what the U.N. General Assembly invariably produces each year.

UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The United Nations was shocked, U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Friday, when a Fox News host called for the world body to be bombed over U.S. President Donald Trump's difficulties with an escalator and a teleprompter.

Gustavo Petro could be heard asking US soldiers to "disobey Trump's orders" while addressing a crowd on New York streets.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a long history of turning to props and visual aids in his speeches to the U.N.

In its 80-year history, the United Nations has never had a woman serve as secretary-general -- a fact that some world leaders now view as a glaring symbol of gender inequality at the highest level of global diplomacy.