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\n NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 23: Seats for the United States delegation remain empty as President\u00a0of\u00a0Iran\u00a0Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 81st session of the United Nations (U.N.) General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters on September 23, 2026 in New York City. World leaders have gathered in New York for the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, with this year’s global issues ranging from the threat of artificial intelligence to the continued wars in Ukraine and Gaza. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
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World leaders have descended upon New York City for this year\u2019s edition of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/a> And a lot is happening.<\/p>\n So far, we\u2019ve seen some most pointed criticism of Israel\u2019s conduct heard at the U.N. in years. This led to the Israeli delegation walking out during the Turkish president\u2019s address.<\/a><\/p>\n It\u2019s been nearly three years since Oct. 7. And the Palestinian Authority\u2019s president isn\u2019t in the room \u2014 the United States denied him a visa. Mahmoud Abbas will instead address the assembly on Thursday by video.<\/a><\/p>\n What is being said about Gaza at this General Assembly? And what does it tell us about the limits of the U.N.\u2019s power when America isn\u2019t on board?<\/p>\n Find more of our programs online<\/a>. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at <\/a>plus.npr.org\/the1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 23: Seats for the United States delegation remain empty as President\u00a0of\u00a0Iran\u00a0Masoud Pezeshkian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-356378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}