Kerry won’t sign on the dotted line … yet
More than 60 nations today signed the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty at U.N. headquarters, displaying a strong show of support for the world’s first international pact regulating the $70 billion international...
View ArticleRussia wants Tehran at Syria conference
Russia will mount a diplomatic effort to secure Iran a seat at the table at a U.N.-brokered political conference on Syria, Russia’s U.N. envoy Vitaly Churkin said in an interview. Speaking at the...
View ArticleSamantha Power’s tough road to confirmation gets a bit easier
Some Republicans looked like they were set up for a new fight against President Barack Obama‘s nominee for to replace Susan Rice as U.N. ambassador, Samantha Power, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author,...
View ArticleIs the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Golan Heights collapsing?
The U.N. Security Council struggled this evening to prevent the collapse of a beleaguered mission that has helped maintain peace between Israel and Syria along the Golan Heights for nearly 40 years....
View ArticleWhy the NSA leaks should worry the U.N. Security Council (but probably won’t)
Revelations of widespread data mining by the National Security Agency may be sending shock waves across America and Europe, where digital privacy concerns have been mounting in recent years. But the...
View ArticleSyria’s death toll soars to nearly 93,000
At least 92,901 people have lost their lives in Syria’s bloody civil war. And the pace of killing is quickening, with death toll nearly five times what it was in 2011. The latest count of the fallen,...
View ArticleU.N. Chief Hates the White House’s Plan to Arm Syria’s Rebels
U.N. Secretary Ban Ki moon registered concern today about the foreign supply of weapons to Syrian combatants, placing the top U.N. official at odds with the Obama administration as it presses ahead...
View ArticleHidden Report Reveals How Iran Dodges Nuclear Watchdogs
Iran continues to evade U.N. sanctions on its nuclear program by changing its supply routes, erecting new front companies, and shopping the world for lower grade parts not explicitly prohibited by the...
View ArticleSomali Militants Live-Tweet Their Deadly Attack on U.N. Compound
The Somali militant movement al-Shabab today launched a deadly strike against a U.N. humanitarian compound in Mogadishu that killed one international staffer, three contractors, four Somali security...
View Article“No Human Rights Problems In My Country,” Says North Korea’s U.N Rep
North Korea’s U.N. envoy Sin Son Ho emerged from a three-year media blackout on Friday to host a nearly hour long press conference. And it was a doozy. Sin not only demanded the dismantling of the...
View ArticleWhy Syria Finds It So Hard to Thank Hezbollah for Saving Its Bacon
When Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah dispatched fighters to Syria last spring to reinforce the beleaguered army of his longtime benefactor, President Bashar al-Assad, it was a matter of pride for the...
View ArticleNorth Korea’s Shadow Ambassador Arrives In The U.S. — But Does He Have Any...
There’s a new North Korean in New York City. Jang Il Hun, a former interpreter and career diplomat, arrived in New York in recent days to take up his new post as the North Korean representative of the...
View ArticleIs the U.S ramping up a secret war in Somalia?
The Obama administration earlier this year expanded its secret war in Somalia, stepping up assistance for federal and regional Somali intelligence agencies that are allied against the country’s...
View ArticleFacebook Stiff-Arms U.N. Investigators
Facebook, Google and other social media giants have been all-too-willing to hand over information about their users when American intelligence and law enforcement agencies come calling. But what can a...
View ArticleScientists Now Say U.N. Peacekeepers Likely Culprit In Cholera Outbreak That...
A panel of independent U.N. experts who investigated the source of a deadly cholera epidemic that killed thousands of Haitians has concluded that United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal "most likely"...
View ArticleHow Syria’s Rebels Are Scuttling Any Chance At Peace Talks
Syria’s U.S.-backed opposition leader, Ahmad al-Jabra, promised the U.N. Security Council today that his coalition was prepared to participate in peace talks with the Syrian government in Geneva. Only...
View ArticleU.N. Pressures Syria to Open Up ‘Chemical’ Battlefields
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki moon on Thursday dispatched his top disarmament official to Syria to try to persuade the Assad government to grant weapons inspectors access to the site of what’s alleged...
View ArticleU.N. Inspectors Get Green Light for Syrian Nerve Agent Hunt
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s office said Sunday that U.N. chemical weapons experts will conduct an urgent inspection Monday in a Damascus suburb to determine whether chemical weapons were used...
View ArticleU.S. and Syria Trade Places on Chemical Weapons Inspections
It wasn’t long ago that the Obama administration was championing the cause of U.N. chemical weapons inspectors in Syria. And it wasn’t long ago that Syria was resisting every effort by the weapons...
View ArticleEven Britain’s Closest Friends Think Its Rationale for War Is Illegal
The British government asserted today that it has the legal authority to strike Syria because of the controversial doctrine of "humanitarian intervention." One small problem: That legal norm has never...
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