The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) delivers the latest update on President Obama’s Iran deal, in which we learn about yet another secret side agreement, this one signed just hours before Tehran took delivery of a plane filled with $400 million in cash and released four American hostages.
The United Nations’ top officials joined with Israel’s envoys to the world body for a ceremony commemorating Israel’s former president, Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday.
The Obama Administration is reportedly considering military options for Syria, or at least trying to signal to Russia that military force is back on the table.
Appearing on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow, former U.N. Ambassador and American Enterprise Institute senior fellow John Bolton discussed the latest developments on the international scene, including the congressional override of President Obama’s veto against the bill allowing 9/11 families to file suit against Saudi Arabia.
India has urged the United Nations to “isolate” its regional rival and nuclear-armed counterpart Pakistan if it continues to refuse to join the global fight against terrorism, noting that it was long past time to identify nations who sponsor and export terror.
A United Nations-affiliated group in Geneva is calling for the U.S. to give African Americans reparations for the country’s history of slavery, according to a recent report by the group.
A medical group has warned that the health system in Aleppo is on the verge of collapse, as Syrian Government forces backed by Russia continue an intensive bombing campaign.
During a UN Security Council crisis meeting on Sunday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared himself “appalled” by the Syrian government’s massive attack on Aleppo, saying it “brings the violence to new levels of barbarity.”
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday that despite his disagreements he enjoyed his meetings with President Barack Obama over the past seven years, but that he hopes the commander-in-chief will not advance a last-ditch peace initiative before leaving office on January 20.
TEL AVIV – Veteran Lebanese journalist Samir Atallah penned a scathing article on the Arab people’s inability to conduct negotiations without resorting to threats, as well as the hypocrisy of the Arab world’s outrage towards external threats like Israel, which may have demolished “a house or two” while Arabs destroy entire cities.
Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman said the United Nations should treat Iranian President Hassan Rouhani the same way it treats North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and suggested that “Tehran has more blood on its hands than even the regime in Pyongyang.”
NEW YORK – Thousands of members from the Iranian resistance group the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), or the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), held a rally and put on mock executions at the United Nation’s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York City on Tuesday to protest President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to the U.N. and to shed light on his role in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners who were hung, shot and buried in mass graves.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Migratory policies around the world have failed, leading to the spread of terrorism, Hungary’s foreign minister told the U.N. General Assembly on Friday. Peter Szijjarto said the international community must make it clear that there is
Syrian Dictator Bashar al-Assad has said neither Syria nor its ally Russia launched the bombs that destroyed a United Nations aid convoy carrying food supplies to a rural area west of the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo that killed at least 20 people, including the local director of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.
It was more than a little discordant to hear Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov tell the U.N. General Assembly on Friday that it is “essential to prevent disruption” of the Syrian ceasefire agreement, while Syrian warplanes — allegedly with Russian help — were showering bombs on the besieged city of Aleppo, with a ground operation waiting in the wings.
The internationally recognized president of Yemen, while addressing world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly, accused Iran of spreading terrorism and brutality across the Middle East and vowed to “extract Yemen from the claws of Iran.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s address to the United Nations General Assembly was focused on economic issues, with a surprisingly strong critique of globalism.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that North Korea’s nuclear and missile threat had reached a new “dimension,” menacing the peace of the entire region and meriting the strongest response from the Security Council.
NEW YORK — During his speech here at the United Nations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed the international body as a “moral farce,” and referred to one UN agency as a “joke” and another as a “circus.”
TEL AVIV — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama set aside their differences on Wednesday and said farewell in a meeting that took place in a “light-hearted atmosphere,” a senior Israeli official said.
On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, former U.N. ambassador John Bolton predicted that the impending transfer of Internet domain control from American supervision to an international body will mean the end of the Internet “as we know it.”
Arab member states in the U.N. nuclear watchdog have shelved an annual bid to pressure Israel into accepting international scrutiny of its atomic activities pending a revamp of their tactics, a senior diplomat said.
Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has sided with the sovereignty of the American people against international elites yet again by coming out in public opposition to President Barack Obama’s internet giveaway to a United Nations globalist body.
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang was notably silent on the ongoing dispute in the South China Sea, instead demanding “developed countries” conform to climate change protocols and asserting “terrorism should not be linked with certain countries, races, or religions.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi urged Israel to “write a bright page” in Middle East history and make peace with the Palestinians.
King Abdullah II of Jordan addressed terrorism in his remarks to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, portraying the “network of extremist terrorists” as a force seeking “global dominance” so they can “erase human civilization, and drag us back to the dark ages.”
First Lady Michelle Obama served as host at a Broadway concert for the spouses of U.N. leaders as part of her Let Girls Learn initiative that promotes the education of girls in countries whose cultural traditions prevent their access to higher learning.
Rasmussen Reports released a poll on Tuesday that shows “voters reject Obama’s new Middle East refugee plan.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used his final address Tuesday to the General Assembly, after ten years in office, to blame Israel for the failed Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Ban said nothing about Palestinian terrorism, war or incitement in his speech.
Barack Obama says globalization will continue growing rapidly, signaling the unstoppable march of progress. But he warned that nations who allow the wealthy to enjoy the benefits of globalism face challenges from their populace. Those people, he noted, were falling prey to an “alternative” narrative, propagated to fuel opposition.
In a demonstration of moral equivalency madness, the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov yesterday equated Palestinian terrorism with Israel’s defense against murderous Palestinian attacks.
The UN said Tuesday it had suspended all humanitarian aid convoys in Syria after a deadly air raid hit trucks delivering aid near Aleppo, killing a Red Crescent staff member and civilians.
TEL AVIV – Eighty-eight U.S. senators on Tuesday released a bipartisan letter to President Barack Obama urging him to uphold the U.S. policy of vetoing any one-sided United Nations resolutions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ahead of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to make his way to New York Tuesday afternoon for a trip that will include his annual address the United Nations General Assembly and what will presumably be his last meeting with US President Barack Obama.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama will meet in New York on Wednesday during the United Nations General Assembly, to discuss the recently agreed U.S.’ military aid agreement.
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton plans to mingle with foreign leaders at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next week. Her goal is to use the UN as a backdrop to display her foreign policy credentials, and contrast her experience with that of Republican rival Donald Trump.
North Korea discovered that one of the problems with spending most of your impoverished Communist dungeon state’s GDP on military hardware is that you don’t have much left over to handle emergencies, such as a flood that leaves 100,000 people homeless.
A newly-elected Australian Senator has used his maiden speech to call for his country to leave the “socialist monolithic monster” of the United Nations.
Since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the area under opium cultivation in the country has increased 23 fold to an area nearly ten times the size of Washington, D.C., while production of the illicit drug has skyrocketed 18-fold, from 185 metric tons to 3,300.
The United Nations Department of Public Information held a media seminar in Pretoria, South Africa earlier this month on peace in the Middle East. The stated goal of the three-day seminar was to bring together “politicians, academics and other experts exploring new ways to narrate the complex and evolving story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
