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The Jerusalem Post reports: In a rare New York Times op-ed, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon scolded Israel on Monday for its criticism of his comments last week that Jerusalem interpreted as giving a tailwind to terrorism, chiding Israel for “lashing

Contents: UN’s Ban Ki-moon calls Syria’s Bashar al-Assad a war criminal; Second aid convoy arrives in the starving Syrian city of Mayada

The United Nations is vowing a “significant” response to North Korea’s claim that it successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb earlier this week, despite years of economic sanctions and arm sales bans doing little to deter the rogue nation’s aggressive behavior.

Contents: Merry Christmas, happy Kwanza, belated happy Hanukkah, Ramadan, Winter Solstice!; Hezbollah promises revenge for deadly Israeli airstrike in Syria; Israel and Hezbollah may be close to war again; Russia is sharing information with the Taliban in Afghanistan to fight ISIS

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has encouraged Russia and the United States to work together to fight jihadist violence, saying he intends to present a comprehensive plan to combat terrorism by early 2016.

The United Nations does not view Spain’s separatist-ruled Catalonia region as having the right to self-determination, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said in an interview published Saturday. “Spain is an independent and sovereign country that includes the Catalan region,” Ban told

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon announced this week that he plans on meeting Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas.

The UN Secretary General is always present when a head of state addresses the General Assembly. But they broke the rule to humiliate the Jewish people. He left. There is no way that Ban Ki-moon would have shown such disrespect had he not been given the idea or, at the very least, the sanction, by the Jew-hater in the White House.

Former Colbert Report funnyman Stephen Colbert is set to take the reins of CBS’ The Late Show next month–and some big political names will join him for interviews during the show’s second week.

The reputation of United Nations peacekeepers has suffered another humiliating blow. Fresh allegations of rape by blue-helmeted U.N. troops have surfaced with one of the victims reportedly underage. A U.N. spokesman, Vannina Maestracci, said the alleged events, involving three girls or

The workshop, titled “Modern Slavery and Climate Change: The Commitment of the Cities,” will explore the connection between climate change and new forms of slavery. The official website of the workshop asserts that it is a “fact” that “global warming is one of the causes of poverty and forced migration, which are breeding grounds for human trafficking, forced labour, prostitution and organ trafficking.” Mayor de Blasio will deliver a speech describing his administration’s environmental plan for New York City.

The United Nations has upgraded the humanitarian crisis in Yemen to a Level 3 emergency, the most dire possible scenario on the UN scale. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is calling for an immediate ceasefire to allow for food, water, and medicine to enter the nation, as more than 80% of the population is entirely dependent on foreign aid to live.

In a rare display of diplomatic indecorum, Margaret Archer, the president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, has lashed out at the author of a recent essay, accusing him of hate speech and moral depravity for questioning the Academy’s position on climate change.

Georgetown University, the oldest Catholic and Jesuit institute of higher learning in the United States, will honor advocates of abortion during its commencement ceremonies this coming weekend.

VATICAN CITY: “Religion and science are united on the need for action on climate,” declared UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon at a papal climate summit in the Vatican this morning. This statement is at best moot, at worst a risible and

VATICAN CITY – Papal heavies shut down an awkward question at a Vatican press conference today when a journalist asked UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon his views on climate sceptics. Marc Morano, covering the Vatican climate conference for Climate Depot, asked

In a new report focusing on the employment of sexual assault as a weapon of terrorism, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon denounced violence against women and called for a concerted effort to put an end to the atrocities of Islamist extremists.

Syria’s Yarmouk refugee camp descends into the ‘deepest circle of Hell’; Palestinians flip-flop on Syrian action in Yarmouk refugee camp; Europe demands list of reforms from Greece after numerous delays; Iran’s demands on sanctions threaten to unravel nuclear deal

Arab countries moving Yemen ambassadors from Sanaa to Aden; Yemen’s banks deteriorate as the economy collapses; US CPI continues in deflation, as Europe offers negative interest bonds

Central African Republic ‘peace deal’ collapses instantly as slaughter continues; Nigeria’s Boko Haram attacks towns in Niger, as war expands into region; Houthis complete takeover coup in Yemen

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Friday in New York that the terror attacks in Paris, in which radical Muslims targeted a Jewish supermarket and a newspaper that had mocked Muhammad, were “criminality” that had nothing to do with religion.

Nearly nine months, 6,915  deaths, and 18,603 cases later, the United Nations is ready to take some action on the Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon announced a tour of the stricken West African countries—Sierra Leone, Liberia, and