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Belgian international law professor Pierre d’Argent has noted that while the UN migration pact is “non-binding” on countries, it does set up a “framework” which he says could be used by lawyers to interpret the meaning of laws.

The United Nations, in a new report issued this month, cited a growing presence of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Somalia, a faction that has directly threatened to displace the al-Qaeda branch in East Africa, al-Shabaab.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian move to join United Nations agencies as an independent nation is “counterproductive,” a US State Department official said over the weekend.

TEHRAN — Iraq’s President Barham Salih began a visit to Iran on Saturday, where he pledged to improve relations less than two weeks after the United States restored oil sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal.

The Czech government has decided the country will stay out of a United Nations pact promoting an international approach to safe and orderly migration.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a confidential quarterly report that Iran is abiding by the limits to heavy water and uranium stockpiles set by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal.

Britain’s International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt has told Cabinet colleagues that the UK should leave the United Nations’ culture body, UNESCO.

Victor Davis Hanson said Emmanuel Macron’s proposal for an EU army is “absurd” given France’s failure to meet its financial NATO commitments.

China’s state media outlets praised official Zhang Jun and its United Nations delegation on Monday for celebrating the country’s alleged human rights progress before the international forum, failing to mention Communist Party leader Xi Jinping’s expansion of political re-education camps and terror campaigns against religious minorities.

Eastern European Union member state Bulgaria has become the latest nation to either signal or confirm that it would be withdrawing from the United Nations (UN) Migration Compact, following a growing exodus from the plan led by the United States.

Even as Emmanuel Macron is zapping President Trump for being a nationalist, the French president will be pushing, in Trump’s absence, a whole new initiative built around—you guessed it—globalism. And guess who is funding Macron’s “Paris Peace Forum”?

The mob attack on Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s home this week by radical Marxists – leaving his home with a broken door and vandalized with leftist slogans – has triggered widespread shock on the part of most decent Americans.

Harried doctors fighting the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) fear it may become the worst outbreak of the deadly disease in the region to date, as an ongoing insurgency slows treatment and accelerates contamination.

United Nations investigators this week revealed that Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadis put between 6,000 and 12,000 bodies – including women, children, and invalids – in 202 mass graves discovered across Iraq alone, mainly in the country’s Nineveh and Kirkuk provinces, home to high concentrations of Christians and other minorities. 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is facing a revolt within her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as prominent members begin to opposed the UN migration pact recently rejected by several other countries.

Republican South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster won his reelection race Tuesday evening, defeating a challenge from Democrat James Smith.

The United States will be “committed to advancing policies that protect the lives of the unborn” at the United Nations, said a spokesperson for U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley this week.

Populist Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz Christian Strache defended his country’s move to pull out of the UN migration pact saying he was only concerned with what is best for Austrians.

The United Nations voted overwhelmingly to condemn America’s economic embargo on Cuba on Thursday while rejecting proposed amendments strongly criticizing the country’s dire human rights record.

State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert was offered the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations, according to reports. 

Mattis and Pompeo signaled Tuesday that U.S. patience has run out on supporting a Saudi-led coalition in a war in Yemen.

Citing concerns over the protection of national sovereignty, central European nation Austria has announced its withdrawal from the United Nations (UN) Migration Compact, which claims mass migration is “inevitable, necessary, and desirable”, and that it will not be signing the treaty.

The Assembly of the Cuban Resistance, a coalition of Cuban and Cuban-American human rights advocacy groups, announced a large-scale caravan protest in Miami against cruise corporations choosing to do business with Cuba.

International officials with the United Nations Refugee Agency say President Trump must allow a caravan of Central Americans into the United States to seek asylum.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan renewed his call Wednesday for reforming the United States Security Council and ending permanent membership, emboldened by his heightened international status following the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee has given France six months to revise its ban on the full face veil in public, ruling the law to be “oppressive” against Muslims.

AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan said Wednesday a group of 279 Syrian rescue workers has left the kingdom for resettlement in Western countries three months after they were evacuated by Israel.

The Cuban delegation to the United Nations interrupted a meeting on the island’s ongoing imprisonment of political dissidents on Tuesday by shouting insults over the speakers, calling the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) a “puppet” of the United States and refusing to let participants express themselves.

TEL AVIV – The UN General Assembly on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted to appoint the “State of Palestine” as chair of Group 77, the biggest bloc of developing countries at the United Nations, which would see it able to act like a full UN member state in the coming year. 

Pope Francis bemoaned a “cooling” of international solidarity in his Message for World Food Day Tuesday, while calling the U.N.’s dubious 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development a “rallying cry” for all people of good will.

TEL AVIV – Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon on Saturday slammed the left-wing Israeli human rights group B’Tselem for accepting an unusual invitation from Bolivia to address the UN Security Council session later this week. 

A government study shared with Washington argues that Palestinian refugees number in the thousands, not the millions designated by a UN aid agency whose funding has been slashed by the Trump administration, an Israeli official said on Friday.

The United Nations Human Rights Committee has heard complaints from two women in France regarding the country’s ban on the full face Islamic veil with sources claiming they could challenge the law.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs executive Dina Powell has withdrawn from consideration to succeed Nikki Haley as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – American Jewish leaders and Israeli politicians on Tuesday hailed outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley for standing up for Israel at the global body.

U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell is emerging as a top candidate to replace outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley among conservative circles.