Cindy McCain on her latest challenge

In Rome this month, Cindy McCain started her new job as executive director of the U.N. World Food Programme, an organization working in 123 countries with the ambitious goal of ending world hunger. She talks with correspondent Seth Doane about the increased political and logistical challenges of feeding the world's neediest, a task made more critical by the pandemic and war in Ukraine; and about the advice she continues to carry with her from her husband, the late Sen. John McCain.

• Apr 16, 2023
• 05:28

Cindy McCain on her drive to fight hunger

Beginning her new job as executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, she talks about the increased political and logistical challenges of feeding the world's neediest, and the most important advice her late husband gave her.

• Apr 16, 2023

Leaked Pentagon docs show rift between U.S. and U.N. over Ukraine

The documents indicate possible surveillance by the U.S. of the U.N. chief over fears he was being too soft on Russia.

• Apr 13, 2023

Migrant deaths in Mediterranean reach highest level in 6 years

A new report from the U.N. found that the first three months of 2023 were the deadliest such period for migrants in the Central Mediterranean since early 2017.

• Apr 12, 2023

U.N. to review presence in Afghanistan after Taliban bars women workers

Distribution of desperately needed food and medical aid has been impeded by the Taliban edict banning women from working at international organizations.

• Apr 11, 2023

Russian official tells U.N. Ukrainian kids kidnapped for their safety

If she wants to give an account of her actions, she can do so in the Hague," Britain's ambassador, who boycotted the meeting with his U.S counterpart, said of Maria Lvova-Belova.

• Apr 5, 2023

Taliban bars Afghan women from working for the U.N.

The latest step in the Taliban's systematic obliteration of women's rights will also be a major blow to the humanitarian aid work millions of Afghans rely on.

• Apr 5, 2023

Ukraine fumes as Russia takes control of the U.N. Security Council

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called Russia taking control of the powerful body, "proof of the bankruptcy of procedures in world institutions."

• Apr 3, 2023

Proposed Uganda law would impose death penalty for some LGBTQ acts

The bill approved by lawmakers would even make family members vulnerable to imprisonment for failing to report loved ones.

• Mar 23, 2023

More than 530 killed this year as gang wars worsen in Haiti, U.N. says

The U.N. human rights office says gangs are "randomly shooting at people in their homes or on the streets" in rivals' territory.

• Mar 21, 2023

U.N. warns we must act on climate change

The world must take action to "defuse the climate time bomb," the United Nations secretary-general said as the U.N. released its latest report. "Prime Time" host John Dickerson discusses the warning with Mark Hertsgaard, co-founder and executive director of Covering Climate Now.

• Mar 20, 2023
• 05:24

Finland remains world's happiest country on International Day of Happiness

The World Happiness Report ranked the Nordic state first for the sixth consecutive year.

• Mar 20, 2023

Extension reached for Black Sea grain deal

The deal will allow for the continued exportation of crucial grain supplies from Ukraine.

• Mar 18, 2023

Global cocaine production hits "record high," U.N. drugs agency says

"The surge in the global cocaine supply should put all of us on high alert," U.N. drug official says.

• Mar 16, 2023

After 12 years of war, the last thing Syria needed was an earthquake

A U.N.-backed probe has acknowledged a "complete failure" in the emergency earthquake response, which was stymied by Syria's seemingly endless civil war.

• Mar 15, 2023

Russia says renewing grain export deal with Ukraine "complicated"

The agreement, which has helped ease a global food cost crisis, must be renewed by mid-March, but with the war raging, it's unclear if Russia will sign on again.

• Mar 9, 2023

U.N. leader visits Ukraine

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in Kyiv today and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Guterres made the trip to the Ukrainian capital in an effort to extend the grain export deal with Russia. BBC News diplomatic correspondent James Landale has more.

• Mar 8, 2023
• 03:22

UN chief visits Ukraine to boost grain deal

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy today in Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, hoping to shore up the deal struck between Ukraine and Russia last year to allow for the export of grain from both countries. The deal must be renewed by March 18. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams joined Anne-Marie Green on "CBS News Mornings" to discuss the visit and more news from the region.

• Mar 8, 2023
• 04:29

On International Women's Day, Afghan women say world "neglected us completely"

"Afghanistan has become a prison for women," one activist told CBS News, "and the world is just watching."

• Mar 8, 2023

Historic treaty reached to protect marine life on high seas

The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea came into force in 1994, before marine biodiversity was a well-established concept.

• Mar 6, 2023

Iran to allow more inspections at nuclear sites, U.N. says

The International Atomic Energy Agency also said that Iran had agreed to restore surveillance cameras at those nuclear facilities as well.

• Mar 4, 2023

U.N. chief decries "massive" human rights violations in Ukraine

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine has triggered "the most massive violations of human rights" in the world today.

• Feb 27, 2023

Ukraine's U.N. ambassador on year of war

In an interview with CBS News correspondent Pamela Falk, Ukraine's Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya discusses concerns over China potentially supplying lethal weapons to the Russian war effort. He also talks about the significance of President Biden's visit to Ukraine.

• Feb 24, 2023
• 04:53

U.N. approves resolution calling for Russia to leave Ukraine

The resolution comes on the day before the one-year mark of the war in Ukraine.

• Feb 23, 2023

European Union's response to the war in Ukraine

The Ambassador of the European Union to the United States, Stavros Lambrinidis, speaks with CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent and "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan about the European Union's response to Russia and its war in Ukraine.

• Feb 22, 2023
• 10:51

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