Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid on Monday accused the United Nations of becoming a “collaborator of Islamic fundamentalism,” saying that the body facilitated aid that reaches “agents of terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
On Tuesday, United Nations human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein said current U.S. gun laws “lack rational justification.”
After months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic struggles, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon was elected to head the UN Legal Committee (officially named the Sixth Committee) on Monday.
It has been reported that a former President of the European Commission has used his attendance at the secretive Bilderberg Conference to lobby for a current Commissioner’s appointment as United Nations (UN) Secretary-General. The former European Commission President, José Manuel Barroso, has been attending
Shiite militias in Iraq, many of them backed by state sponsor of terror Iran, have been accused of torturing “hundreds” of Sunni civilians captured during the ongoing battle to retake Fallujah from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
The United Nations said on Monday it had removed the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fighting in Yemen from a child rights blacklist pending a joint review by the world body and the coalition of the cases of child deaths and injuries.
Some civilians in Fallujah have reportedly turned to suicide and killing their own children amid the Iraqi military’s offensive to retake the city from brutal Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists who are allegedly using “hundreds” of residents as “human shields.”
Brutal Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists are shooting dead civilians who try to flee the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), an aid agency. According to BBC, families interviewed by NRC revealed that civilians are
BAGHDAD—Iraqi special forces on Fallujah’s southern outskirts have halted offensive operations against Islamic State on that front, army and police officials said Thursday, as authorities struggled over how to evacuate and protect civilians being held as human shields by the extremist group.
Iraqi forces have recently stalled offensive operations against Islamic State (ISIS/IS/ISIL) jihadists at Fallujah’s outskirts, as concerns over the ultimate fate of trapped civilians and resistance from the jihadist group slowed their advance.
At least 20,000 children remain inside Fallujah, facing food and water shortages in addition to the extreme violence that has erupted as Iraqi forces, backed by the U.S. military and Iran-allied Shiite militias, fight to retake the Iraqi city from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reveals a component of the United Nations.
“Deeply saddened” by the loss of hundreds of lives of migrants trying to reach Europe by sea, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has praised the joint rescue operations of Italian and European forces, while calling for “a comprehensive and collective response” as well as “expanded legal pathways” for migrants to enter Europe.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The participation of Iran-allied Shiite militias in the U.S-backed operation to retake Fallujah from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is testament to the Islamic Republic’s growing and troubling influence in Iraq, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) told Breitbart News.
A top United Nations (UN) official has demanded European Union (EU) leaders welcome millions more migrants from the Middle East and Africa. Promising that the “biggest human migration in history” is going to fast accelerate as “young people all have
A UN resolution has singled out Israel as the world’s only violator of “mental, physical and environmental health” and commissioned a delegation to report on “the health conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory” and in “the occupied Syrian Golan.”
SiriusXM host Stephen K. Bannon welcomed Benjamin Harnwell of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute to Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
TEL AVIV – A United Nations ban on an Israeli exhibit at the organization’s headquarters in New York has finally been lifted in its entirety after Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon’s petitioned Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to reverse what he termed the “scandalous” decision.
The BBC reports: The UN says it is appalled at a further 10-year prison sentence imposed by Iran on a prominent human rights activist, already serving six years in jail. Nargis Mohammadi was found guilty of several different charges including
A former number two at the US Department of Homeland Security is forcing the United Nations to confront one of the worst crises in its history: sexual abuse by peacekeepers. Jane Holl Lute, who also served on the White House’s
France and Britain are preparing a UN resolution that would authorize EU ships in the Mediterranean to intercept vessels suspected of carrying weapons to Libya, diplomats said Monday. The European Union’s Operation Sophia would be tasked with enforcing a UN
A summit in Vienna produces a call for relaxing the U.N. arms embargo against Libya’s new unity government.
A video game created by students at Champlain College in 2010 is now being played around the world to teach children about healthy attitudes towards girls and women.
TEL AVIV – In a strongly worded letter to French President Francois Hollande, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed France’s support for a UNESCO resolution denying Jewish ties to the Temple Mount, a local TV channel reported Saturday. France issued an
The Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva has revealed most of the migrants from Syria are not fleeing persecution or war, and has lashed out at both the United States and the Arab Gulf countries who he claims are
Hungary’s actions to keep out migrants, including fast-track trials to punish those who breach its border fence, may conflict with international refugee and human rights conventions, the United Nations said on Thursday. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has taken an increasingly
The army loyal to Yemen’s internationally recognized government will invade the Yemeni capital of Sanaa if the United Nations-brokered peace talks in Kuwait — aimed at ending the year-long war in the country — fail, a spokesman for the Saudi-led Arab coalition has said.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, released a new video clip in honor of the Jewish state’s 68th birthday featuring dozens of ambassadors congratulating Israel on its Independence Day with the traditional greetings of “Yom Haatzmaut Sameach.”
Egypt will use its influence as chair of the UN Security Council in May to defend the interests of the Palestinian people, the presidency said on Monday.
TEL AVIV – In the latest altercation between the United Nations and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the latter’s offer to provide UN diplomats with history lessons on Jewish ties to the Temple Mount was swiftly declined by a UN official.
JERUSALEM (AFP) – Israeli air strikes hit four Hamas sites in Gaza, the military said, following air raids earlier in the day as tensions flared along the border of the Palestinian territory.
Iran’s outgoing parliament approved a motion Sunday to increase the capabilities of the country’s ballistic missiles, a military programme that has been ruled dangerous by the United Nations.
Libya’s Government of National Accord (GNA) – the much-touted “unity” government supported by the United Nations – is slowly taking control of government agencies. On Monday, the GNA took over the office of foreign affairs. Additionally, “transport, social affairs, environment, and youth and sports ministries have likewise been transferred to the new government.”
Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC), chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, and 22 other Republicans wrote a letter opposing sanctions relief by the Obama administration for a Chinese corporation accused of providing spy gear to Iran.
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday drew parallels with Israel’s “labeling” of Palestinians terrorists and Nazi Germany’s similar designation of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising fighters.
The Jerusalem Post reports: US President Barack Obama’s administration has not been supportive enough of Israel at the UN and elsewhere, Intelligence Services Minister Israel Katz charged on Tuesday night in an interview with The Jerusalem Post.
TEL AVIV – Peace will come when the world and the Palestinians realize that direct negotiations is the only way forward, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations contended in an op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is considering “alternative” ways to admit more Syrian refugees to the United States, beyond the current refugee resettlement program, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel at the United Nations on Friday of destroying the environment by building settlements in the West Bank. Speaking during the signing ceremony of the Paris Agreement on climate change at the UN
United Nations (United States) (AFP) – President Dilma Rousseff voiced confidence Friday that Brazil’s people will “be able to prevent any setbacks” to democracy as she battles a bid to impeach her. “Brazil is a great country endowed with a
Friday at the United Nations, actor Leonardo DiCaprio, the U.N. Messenger of Peace, urged world leaders to leave fossil fuels “in the ground where they belong.” “Our planet cannot be saved, unless we leave fossil fuels in the ground, where they belong,”
