The ‘carbon footprint’ is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions, and they’re heading down a path of total destruction,” he told the 192 world leaders gathered at the U.N. General Assembly, in an address that sounded like countless other Trump speeches yet came at a perilous time for the global climate movement.

When President Ahmed al-Shara speaks at the United Nations in New York today, he will seek to present an updated picture of his turbulent nation.

World leaders reacted to Donald Trump's blunt U.N. speech where he claimed to have ended seven wars and threatened tariffs over Russian energy purchases.

President Donald Trump took aim at the decision from several countries to recognize a Palestinian statehood, arguing that it serves as a "reward" to Hamas during his address at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

That was expected to be one of the big themes of the 80th U.N. General Assembly, as the world body struggles to promote peace in a way that was envisioned 80 years ago. But many diplomats are worried about more mundane things, like a financial crisis, and how the U.N. will survive a second Trump administration.

President Trump said Ukraine might be able to reclaim all its lost territory in the war against Russia. Earlier, he suggested NATO countries should shoot down Russian military aircraft that enter their airspace.

Syrian president Ahmed Al-Sharaa became the first representative of Syria to address world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly for almost sixty years.

World leaders are gathering in New York as the United Nations marks its 80th anniversary. Follow for live coverage of the U.N. General Assembly.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump castigated the United Nations as a feckless institution in a speech to the world body on Tuesday, praising the turn America has taken under his leadership while warning Europe will be ruined if it doesn’t turn away from a “double-tailed monster” of ill-conceived migration and green energy policies.

Trump and foreign leaders meet this week at the UN General Assembly, though Trump will largely be isolated from more than half of the member nations over the war in Gaza.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his first in-person address to the United Nations General Assembly in seven years on Tuesday, telling the assembled representatives that "your countries are going to hell" due to due to green energy policies and what he characterized as runaway migration.