Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Sunday for the United Nations to shut down its Palestinian refugee aid agency, saying it was responsible for incitement against the Jewish state.
The United Nations is preparing to release yet another anti-Israel report, blaming Israeli settlements for a host of Palestinian grievances for everything from excessive use of force to building parks on the West Bank so as to “entrench” Israeli presence — the report coming just days after the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will temporarily shelve his long-standing demand for Israel to freeze West Bank settlement construction in order to revive peace talks under the Trump administration, a top adviser said.
Here’s more evidence that Trump did the right thing by pulling out of the UN’s Paris climate agreement. Had the U.S. stayed in it would have been on the hook for a fair chunk of this eye-watering pay demand from India.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley made a sharp speech at the U.N.’s Human Rights Council on Tuesday, calling on the body to fix its “chronic” anti-Israel bias and calling on Venezuela to step down from the Council if it will not end its human rights abuses.
NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s support for Israel has been bringing the winds of positive change into the corridors of the United Nations, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon told Breitbart News in an interview.
Russia’s U.S. Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — a man at the center of the alleged Russian ties to the Trump campaign — according to a high-level official, is “very likely” be named the senior official in charge of counterterrorism at the United Nations.
The United States is the top contributor to a United Nations office headed by a Jordanian Prince who has repeatedly lambasted President Trump and other populists as “clever cheats” and compared them to the Islamic State (ISIS).
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday that the United States knows best how to protect the environment and doesn’t need advice from around the globe.
Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has penned a blistering op-ed targeting the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council. She uses her toughest language yet and slams the body as a “haven for dictators” ahead of a visit to its headquarters in Switzerland next week.
Officials at the United Nations responded negatively to President Trump’s announcement Thursday that the U.S. is pulling out of the Paris climate accord — with one senior U.N. adviser calling Trump “an idiot.”
A coalition of liberal mayors, governors, and businesses is planning to seek United Nations permission to submit to the Paris climate accord, after President Trump’s decision to pull the United States from the deal.
The West Bank town of Burqa on Tuesday vowed that it “would never capitulate to pressure and blackmail” and would not rename a women’s center named after a female Palestinian terrorist, after the facility’s international backers pulled their support and lambasted the Palestinians for glorifying terrorism.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told a meeting of officials from the Simon Wiesenthal Center that “denial of Israel’s right to exist is anti-Semitism,” the organization said.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon was elected as vice president of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, marking a major triumph for the Israeli mission to the international body.
Criminal people-smugglers are generating around 35 billion USD in revenue from the migrant trade, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). Lacy Swing, who heads the United Nations agency, estimated that around 1,700 migrants have died while in the
The U.S. and China are working together to keep the pressure on North Korea and are discussing at what point they will seek another U.N. Security Council resolution against the rogue regime, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday.
War-ravaged Yemen, currently gripped by a humanitarian crisis and cholera epidemic, is spiraling towards “total” collapse as an unable or indifferent world just stands by watching, declares a high-ranking United Nations official.
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley announced Tuesday that she will travel to Israel after first addressing the notoriously anti-Israel Human Rights Council in Geneva – a body which the U.S. boycotted in March.
The United Nations Middle East envoy warned the Security Council on Friday that a power struggle between the rival Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements had worsened a humanitarian crisis in Gaza that now risked exploding into another conflict.
In her first international trip in her role as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley toured a Jordanian refugee camp Sunday – and defended the Trump administration’s policy on the Syrian refugee crisis in the face of its many critics in the UN.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir indicated through his state media on Friday that he would not attend this weekend’s Islamic Summit in Saudi Arabia, at which U.S. President Donald Trump will be a guest of honor.
On Wednesday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said “there is a high possibility of a military conflict” with North Korea, even as he pledged to restore dialogue with the North.
Diego Arria – a former Venezuelan diplomat and UN Security Council president now dedicated to the struggle against socialist Chavismo in his native country – sees removing dictator Nicolás Maduro from power as only a first step in saving Venezuela from decades of corruption and decay.
Fox News reported on Monday that North Korea has been working on an international patent application for producing sodium cyanide, which can be used in nerve gas, with the help of a U.N. agency.
The humanitarian situation in the Yemeni provinces of Hudaydah and Taiz is deteriorating further, driving families to live out “in the open in harsh conditions” and resort to “begging and child labor” to survive, reports the United Nations as a cholera epidemic grips the war-ravaged nation.
A 24-year-old Nigerian shared his ordeal as one of the thousands of West Africans who have traveled to Libya where their traffickers forced them into “a grim and violent world of slave markets, private prisons, and brutal forced brothels,” reports the Guardian.
BERLIN (AFP) – It’s an unusual dilemma that tourists in Berlin have to grapple with – will getting into a hostel bunk bed help finance North Korea’s nuclear ambitions? Backpackers staying at the Cityhostel found themselves struggling with precisely this
The Liberal Democrats have committed to taking in an extra 50,000 migrants from Syria by 2020 at an estimated cost of £4.3 billion.
As a member of the Arctic Council, the United States has signed onto two agreements that include efforts to protect the Arctic from climate change, linking it to human activity.
TEL AVIV – Israel issued an appeal this week to U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley asking her to help nullify the anti-Israel Security Council resolution that was passed in the final days of Obama’s presidency and defines the Western Wall and the Temple Mount as “occupied Palestinian territory.”
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Putting money into U.N. agencies, where the Trump administration has just cut U.S. funding by $640 million, is as important to global peace and security as defense spending — “and sometimes even more,” a top European Union official said Tuesday.
The UN has demanded the next UK government commit to taking at least 10,000 refugees a year directly from camps on top of the thousands of illegal migrants granted asylum in Britain each year.
Still fuming about UN Resolution 2334, which passed in December just before Donald Trump became US president, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked told attendees at The Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York on Sunday that Israel has a partner in the Trump administration in fighting all illegal UN resolutions.
The United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Agnes Callamard made an unannounced visit to the Philippines where she gave a speech at a policy forum in Quezon City on Friday.
Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday signed an agreement on setting up four safe zones in Syria that the United Nations described as a promising step to wind down the brutal six-year war.
A new United Nations survey of male attitudes toward “gender equality” finds precious little appetite for it across the Middle East.
Former Gen. Khalifa Haftar, the Russian-backed Libyan opposition leader who has been compared to the country’s deposed and executed dictator Muammar Gaddafi, is reportedly expected to be nominated for president in March 2018.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday slammed the latest “absurd” resolution passed by the UN’s cultural agency calling Israeli presence in Jerusalem “illegal,” and ordered that funds to the international body be cut again by another $1 million.
In the aftermath of the passage of a UNESCO resolution calling Israel’s presence in Jerusalem “illegal,” President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday urged the world to recognize the city as the capital of the Jewish state and to transfer their embassies there.
