A report claims British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived at the United Nations on Sunday to work on a deal that could end the Syrian civil war without removing dictator Bashar Assad from power.
Starting October 25, Ukraine will not allow any Russian airlines to fly in their airspace. The ban includes major airlines Aeroflot and Transaero.
On September 24, Pope Francis scolded Congress for guns and weapons which are manufactured in America and sold around the world.
Actor an environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio has pledged to divest from his fossil fuel holdings and increase his investment in renewable energy companies, an environmental group announced Tuesday.
The United Nations is hailing a change of language used by the United States to discuss human rights. From this point forward, the Obama administration has announced that it will switch to the UN-approved terminology of “sexual rights” to describe sexual reproduction and other issues.
The United Nations and Oxfam are offering a prize to young writers who can come up with the best story raising “awareness of the harmful impacts of climate change on communities”. (H/T Climate Depot) Here’s my entry: Once upon a
South Korea warned that it will respond rapidly and effectively to a possible launch of a long-range rocket by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ( DPRK) via the United Nations Security Council.
Yemen’s internationally recognized President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, who is in self-exile in Saudi Arabia, backed out of United Nations-brokered talks this week with Iran-linked Houthi rebels, according to the leader’s office.
Amman (AFP) – As hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees languish in camps or risk their lives to reach Europe, questions are being asked about why wealthy Gulf states have accepted so few.
Russian soldiers and light armoured vehicles have been fighting alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s troops according to state-run Syrian TV. Vision has been released claiming to show troops and a Russian armoured vehicle taking on Syrian rebels in Latakia. It is reportedly possible to
The El Niño currently forming in the Pacific Ocean could potentially be the strongest weather pattern of its kind since 1950, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization (WMO) predicted Tuesday.
In a primetime speech Tuesday, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos condemned the arbitrary deportation of over 1,000 Colombians from Venezuela as a human rights violation, asserting that his government is “seriously considering” taking Venezuela to the International Criminal Court and denouncing it before the UN.
Estonia announced plans to build a fence on their border with Russia for extra protection. In the past year, the former Soviet republic often voiced fears they might be Russia’s next target after the Kremlin targeted Ukraine.
Citizens in Mosul, Iraq, told outside media the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) threw nine alleged homosexuals off a roof Sunday. The news comes after the UN Security Council met about ISIS’ violence against LGBT people and determined the group has executed 30 homosexuals in the past year.
A United Nations school for Palestinian refugees in Syria has posted anti-Semitic cartoons on its Facebook page calling for the murder of Jews, leading a UN watchdog group to demand that the international organization condemn the deplorable behavior displayed by one of its educational facilities.
More state-sanctioned per capita executions are taking place in Iran than anywhere else in the world.
New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Thomas Mulcair invoked United Nations mandates three times during the Maclean’s National Leaders Debate this past Thursday.
The UN brokered Libyan negotiations ended this week on Wednesday after two days of dialogue between the Tripoli-based General National Congress (GNC) and the Tobruk-based House of Representatives (HoR). These recent talks were the first since an agreement on July 11, 2015.
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced Wednesday he had fired the mission chief in the Central African Republic, declaring “enough is enough” after a string of allegations of child sex abuse by peacekeepers.
The United Nations security council unanimously voted to adopt a resolution to investigate if Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against innocent civilians. However, the honeymoon did not last long when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov blasted these claims.
Over 50 Yazidis attended a demonstration outside of the United Nations building in Erbil, Iraq, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, one year after the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) slaughtered thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar. Protesters demanded action against ISIS to help free the numerous females still held by the terrorist group.
United Nations — Move over: The world’s population is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion in 2050, a new United Nations report says. And there should be 11.2 billion people on Earth by the end of this century.
An alliance of Sunni Islamist militias in Syria that includes the al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra have reportedly mounted a major offensive toward the country’s Alawite heartland in the home province of President Bashar al-Assad where many Christians reside.
Security experts gathered in Madrid, Spain, for a United Nations panel to discuss measures to stop jihadists from joining radical Islamic groups like the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
Republican members of the House made headlines for grilling Secretary of State John Kerry on the Iran nuclear deal on Tuesday, but Democrat Rep. Ted Deutch landed a solid punch by noting the Administration is absurdly downplaying how much damage Iran can do with all the money Obama wants to give them, long before they detonate a nuclear bomb.
International inspectors failed to stop Syria from stockpiling chemical weapons, in spite of an international agreement in 2013, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal on Friday. International inspectors were skeptical of Syria’s claims to have disposed of its stockpiles, but were afraid that reporting violations would destroy the overall deal: “Members of the inspection team didn’t push for answers, worried that it would compromise their primary objective of getting the regime to surrender the 1,300 tons of chemicals it admitted to having.”
Britain must outlaw parents smacking their children, a UN human rights report has demanded. The organisation’s human rights committee – which includes countries such as Egypt, Uganda and Algeria – urged the government to ban all forms of corporal punishment
Iranian regime Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Tuesday that he was upset by comments made by U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, who declared before his trip to Israel that the recently agreed-upon Iran nuclear deal “does nothing to prevent the military option” against Tehran’s nuclear facilities.
The United Nations Security Council is expected to hold discussions on Israel before approving the nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 world powers (U.S., UK, Germany, France, China, and Russia).
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko blamed Russia for shooting Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 down as relatives and officials gathered on the one year anniversary.
The government of Venezuela, intent on finding a solution to its economic woes that do not involve changing its socialist economic system, has taken up a campaign to annex two-thirds of neighboring Guyana, a jungle territory known as the Essequibo. Guyana is soundly rejecting that Venezuela has any claims to its territory.
As the world turns its attention to nuclear proliferation in Iran, North Korea is denying threats that it, too, is developing weapons of mass destruction.
The United Nations special envoy for Ebola warned today that the outbreak that has taken more than 11,000 lives in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea is far from over, with 30 people a week being diagnosed with the disease on average. The UN warned that, while the figure appears low compared to the number this time last year, the fact that most cases are people not on watch lists indicates the threat is much larger than it appears.
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crashed into eastern Ukraine, killing all 298 people aboard. A memorial service took place in Kuala Lumpur, the final destination of the tragic flight, this week, observing the one-year anniversary.
The number of migrants and refugees who have made the dangerous voyage across the Mediterranean into Europe has already hit an estimated 150,000 this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) revealed today, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
A new “cluster” of Ebola cases in a coastal region of Liberia has been identified, after a 17-year-old boy, initially misdiagnosed with malaria, was confirmed dead of the virus. Experts have failed to find the source of this new outbreak and are treating it as a separate set of incidents from the massive outbreak that has taken more than 10,000 lives in West Africa since February 2014.
Venezuelan socialist head of state Nicolás Maduro has recalled his nation’s ambassador to neighboring Guyana after statements by the latter government that Venezuela was excessively intruding into Guyanese maritime territory.
In a post urging to “go see them now, before it’s too late,” Jacopo Prisco at CNN catalogued 25 ancient and endangered locales in the modern world. Missing from the list is Palmyra, Syria, which is currently under destruction by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) and other UNESCO Heritage Sites in the Middle East that remain in danger due to groups like ISIS.
New coal plants represent the most “urgent threat” to the future of the planet, the head of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has warned. In a somewhat alarmist speech that effectively ranked coal power ahead of militant
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.
