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In this first address to the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump took on the global threats posed by North Korea and Iran and reiterated his “America First” approach to policy.

A program is leading representatives of Arctic nations to Alaska, Canada, Iceland and Greenland to look at the microgrids in remote communities. The Arctic Remote Energy Network Academy, or ARENA, is in the middle of its pilot year and gives participants a look at innovative remote energy networks. They hope to gather information and contacts…

The president’s remarks, made during a meeting while he is on a “working vacation” in New Jersey, follow similar remarks by North Korea a day earlier.

North Korea is blaming the United States and threatening “something thousands of times worse” in response to a package of sanctions that the U.N. Security Council passed unanimously over the weekend.

The International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee took up the issue of heavy fuel oil at its meeting earlier this month. The IMO is the United Nations agency charged with regulating international shipping.

The administration claims the U.N. population agency supports China’s “coercive” abortion policies. UNFPA calls the claim “erroneous.”

“History is here. All the conditions are met. The decisive agreement for the planet is now,” French President Francois Hollande said Saturday.

In a press conference in Paris, Obama said that climate change is probably the hardest kind of problem for politicians to solve, yet despite the hurdles, he’s optimistic.

The pontiff is the fourth to address the United Nations. He spoke extensively about climate change and the environment, equality of opportunity and international justice.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that there are still 795 million people who don’t get enough to eat — and enough nutrients in their food.