Although one of President Bill Clinton’s last “accomplishments” on the cusp of leaving office 16 years ago was rallying the international community to establish “International Migrants Day,” Brexit and election of Donald Trump mark the beginning of a new nationalism.
Residents of war-ravaged Yemen, one of the poorest countries in the Middle East, are facing yet another problem — the management of toxic trash that is posing a looming threat to the health of the people in the country’s ancient capital of Sanaa, home to a UNESCO World Heritage site.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” columnist Mike Barnicle called for the abolition of the United Nations because “they do nothing.” Barnicle said, during a discussion on Aleppo, “Another thing that’s clearly evident from the last five years is:
The incoming United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres from Portugal, believes the intergovernmental organization needs to be more efficient and effective and less bureaucratic.
TEL AVIV – Self-described Liberal Democrat and emeritus professor of law at Harvard University Alan Dershowitz said he fears the liberal media in the U.S. will launch a campaign of “demonization” against President-elect Donald Trump’s personal life, saying that attacks on Trump’s wife and family only serve to undermine democracy.
TEL AVIV – A senior delegation from the Palestinian Authority will visit Washington with the hopes of meeting President-elect Donald Trump and to urge President Barack Obama to use his final weeks in office to take steps towards reviving the moribund peace process.
Nigel Farage and Donald Trump are “populists and demagogues” using tactics comparable to Islamic State (IS), and the success of populism in 2016 echoes “fascist rhetoric”, the United Nation’s rights chief has said.
JERUSALEM — Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday said that the U.S. would not rule out taking steps at the UN for a framework for a Palestinian state and condemned Israel’s settlement enterprise as sabotaging the two-state solution.
TEL AVIV – A majority of Democrats believe Israel is a burden on the United States and has too much influence on American politics, according to a poll released by the Brookings Institution on Friday. Fifty-seven percent of respondents said they believed President-elect
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson for wearing a Palestinian flag scarf at a special meeting Tuesday to mark “Palestinian Day.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) only controls a “sliver of territory” in its Libyan stronghold, but the terrorist group may be “forming cells” elsewhere in the African country, warns the U.S. special envoy for Libya.
There is irony in the convergence of two story lines this month.
Pakistan’s air force chief Marshal Sohail Aman has warned India against escalating the dispute over the Muslim-majority Himalayan region of Kashmir into a full-scale war amid soaring tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
The incoming Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN) told a room of policymakers in Europe on Wednesday that “migration is not the problem but the solution”, and said politicians should ignore voters.
Syrian government forces advanced quickly inside rebel-held east Aleppo on Monday, as the UN raised the alarm for nearly one million people living under siege in the war-wracked country
The Syrian government on Sunday refused a U.N. proposal to grant the eastern districts of Aleppo autonomy as part of an approach to restore calm to the war-torn city.
The UN children’s fund said Saturday it was “deeply concerned” over a draft bill in Turkey which would overturn a child sex assault conviction if the offender married his victim.
TEL AVIV – At least a dozen senior Iranian officials who were part of negotiations for the U.S.-led nuclear deal were arrested by the Islamic Republic on espionage charges, an Iranian lawmaker said.
The UN atomic energy agency’s latest report on Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal it reached with six world powers last year “borders on deception by omission,” a Washington, DC-based think tank said in an analysis published this week.
While BDS activists have failed to get American educational institutions to boycott the Jewish state, they are succeeding in “miseducating a generation of future leaders” about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, internationally renowned legal expert Alan Dershowitz warned on Wednesday.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said this week he is willing to join a “new world order” created by communist China and the rogue Russian regime.
North Korea has finally commented on America’s election of Donald Trump as its next president, insisting that Pyongyang has no plans to change its policies based on the new head of state.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, feeling the pressure from the U.S.-backed Iraqi military and its allies on all sides of their de-facto capital of Mosul, Iraq, are perpetrating a “numbing” extent of civilian suffering, including hanging 66 corpses of alleged traitors, using radicalized children as suicide bombers, and using chemical weapons, reports the United Nations.
The latest UN climate summit – COP22 in Marrakech, Morocco this time – has been tragically overshadowed by the dark cloud of Donald Trump’s victory.
TEL AVIV – The Israeli government discriminates against Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount in order to protect their safety, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said Monday at the Knesset.
The 2008 United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) shows the U.S. as the 92nd highest for homicides among 192 other countries around the world. This agrees with a 2012 Congressional Research Services (CRS) report showing the firearm-related homicide rate in the U.S. fell sharply as private gun ownership began soaring post-1994.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority is preparing to demand that UNESCO force Israel to return the Dead Sea Scrolls, one of the Jewish state’s most important archeological treasures and proof of Jewish existence in the land two millennia ago.
TEL AVIV – Christians all over the world have been called upon by the International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem to mail bibles to UNESCO leadership in Paris in response to the recent UNESCO resolutions erasing Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount.
The United Nations has employed many friends, relatives, and political associates of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad to work on relief operations in Syria, a move that has resulted in more aid being delivered to government-held territories than areas controlled by the opposition, reveal leaked UN documents obtained by The Guardian.
TEL AVIV – Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) has urged the Vatican to assist in preventing future anti-Israel UNESCO resolutions following Wednesday’s vote denying Jewish and Christian ties to Jerusalem.
The U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces and their allies fighting to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have executed up to 900 terrorists since the offensive started more than a week ago.
TEL AVIV – God promised the Holy Land to the people of Israel, Pope Francis said during a speech at the Vatican on Wednesday.
Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) terrorists executed nine fellow jihadis who fled battle by tossing them in burning oil trenches used to impede the vision of U.S.-backed Iraqi military troops fighting to push the militants out Iraq’s second-largest city Mosul, reports the Arabic-language Al Sumaria News, according to various translations.
Every year the UN runs a poll which surveys people’s greatest concerns across the world, and ‘climate change’ comes right at the bottom.
TEL AVIV – U.S. lawmakers are pressuring UNESCO members to vote against a resolution Wednesday that ignores Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount.
JERUSALEM – One week after UNESCO’s executive board ratified a resolution ignoring Jewish and Christian ties to the Temple Mount, the body’s World Heritage Committee is slated to vote on another controversial resolution this Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – Donald Trump and Mike Pence will deliver satellite video addresses at a major Republican Party rally to be held near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem next week, Republicans Overseas Israel announced Wednesday.
TEL AVIV – UNESCO chief Irina Bokova has received “death threats” after criticizing an Arab-backed resolution denying Jewish history in Jerusalem, Israel’s ambassador to the UN organization said on Monday.
The implementation of a landmark nuclear agreement between Iran and world powers is still fragile, the head of the UN agency that polices Iran’s side of the deal has said, warning that small mistakes could have grave consequences.
TEL AVIV – U.S. strikes against the Assad regime in Syria are once again being pushed by top security officials, but President Barack Obama is unlikely to give the go ahead.
