United Nations: Trump’s chance to reassure allies
US allies would settle for some reassuring words and a clearer sense of what Trumpism will mean for US foreign policy
Ibrahim Halawa's sister Fatima was "overwhelmed with joy" following her brother's acquittal after spending over four years in an Egyptian prison. Video: Patsy McGarry
More than 190 world leaders gather in New York this week for the general assembly of the United Nations, but attention will focus almost entirely on one man. As a candidate, Donald Trump was scathing of the UN, dismissing it as a drain on the US budget and decrying the multilateral order it represented as antithetical to his “America First” credo. It was, he once tweeted, a “club” for people who wanted to “have a good time”.