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Pope Francis was making his way through the city on Friday, bringing throngs of onlookers, many road closures, and mass transit disruptions in Manhattan.
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Pope Francis was making his way through the city on Friday, bringing throngs of onlookers, many road closures, and mass transit disruptions in Manhattan.
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Bag inspections were being set up at some subway stations, more bomb-sniffing dogs and surveillance teams were deployed and officers were working overtime and doing extra checks of subway stations.
Hundreds have gathered in New York City to protest Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during his remarks before the U.N. General Assembly.
President Barack Obama told the assembled leaders that the "only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.''
In a forceful appeal for international cooperation on limiting carbon pollution, President Barack Obama warned starkly on Tuesday that the globe's climate is changing faster than efforts to address it.
More than 140 government leaders, including President Barack Obama, are gathering in New York for the annual United Nations General Assembly.
"On background, Vatican officials are saying that Pope Francis has indicated that he wants to come to the United States in September 2015," John Allen the National Catholic Reporter said.
The demonstrators waving their red, white and green Iranian flags were joined by some high-profile politicians who said Hasan Rouhani's recent talk of opening dialogue with the United States is merely a ruse.
U.S. military fighter jets were buzzing over the New York City area Monday, chasing at least three small plans that violated restricted air space over the United Nations.
Critics expressed their skepticism Monday at a rally across First Avenue from the United Nations headquarters, where world leaders are converging for this week's General Assembly.
The United Nations General Assembly is getting under way Monday, meaning New Yorkers can expect major traffic headaches on Manhattan's East Side all week.
He wanted to get the world's attention and he did it with a simple diagram that could be shown in elementary schools, only to the Israeli prime minister there was nothing elementary about the stakes at hand -- stopping Iran from getting the bomb.
The controversial president of Iran made a final speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad leaves office next year, thanks to term limits. His "last blast" at the UN lacked some of the fire of years' past.
President Barack Obama told world leaders Tuesday that attacks on U.S. citizens in Libya "were attacks on America,'' and he called on them to join in confronting the root causes of the rage across the Muslim world.
Road closures and traffic delays are making for a tricky commute as world leaders gather for the United Nations General Assembly this week.
The NYPD said the road closures will be intermittent as the meetings at the U.N. go on, but include East 34th Street to East 57th Street from 1st to 2nd Avenues.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is scheduled to make a speech at the UN on Wednesday, is expected to stay for the second straight year at the posh Warwick New York Hotel.
World leaders will be converging on Manhattan's East Side next week for the United Nations General Assembly and the NYPD says it's ready.
The victim of what a court said was Iranian terrorism wants that country's leader to pay up, at least in part.
He's been posted to Pretoria, Islamabad, and Paris. But now, Sir Mark Lyall Grant is an Englishman in New York.
According to a report, Al Qaeda propagandists are sick of Ahmadinejad saying the U.S. government was part of a conspiracy that carried out the 9/11 attacks.
The United Nations Security Council took the first steps in considering the Palestinian's request for statehood, meeting behind closed doors on Monday on the controversial bid. The arm twisting has begun.
On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared he'll travel here, to fight a Palestinian bid for United Nations membership as President Barack Obama tried to defuse a difficult situation.
