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by Carole Landry / with Park Chan-Kyong in Seoul Agence France Presse UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The United States led a push at the United Nations Security Council Wednesday for tougher sanctions on North Korea, while warning the isolated regime’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile had drastically narrowed the path for diplomacy. In a hard-hitting address to the council, US Ambassador Nikki Haley said Tuesday’s ICBM test had made “the world a […]
UNITED STATES (AFP) – The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday after North Korea said it had successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile, diplomats said. The United States — which confirmed it was an ICBM launch — backed by Japan and South Korea, requested the urgent meeting that is scheduled for 3 pm (1900 GMT). North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un oversaw the launch of the Hwasong-14 missile which experts […]
UNITED NATIONS,United States (AFP) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile that Pyongyang claimed was its first successful ICBM test. “This action is yet another brazen violation of Security Council resolutions and constitutes a dangerous escalation of the situation,” Guterres said in a statement. He added that North Korea’s “leadership must cease further provocative actions and comply fully with its international obligations.” The Security Council […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — China’s United Nations ambassador on Monday warned of “disastrous” consequences if world powers fail to find a way to ease tensions with North Korea which he said could “get out of control.” Ambassador Liu Jieyi made the remarks a day after United States President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the threat posed by North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests. “Currently tensions are high […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — North Korea on Wednesday delivered a rare statement at the United Nations Security Council, accusing the United States of attaching “unjust” conditions to its offer of talks on Pyongyang’s military programs. Deputy Ambassador Kim in Ryong said it would be a “fatal miscalculation” by countries to believe that the latest sanctions imposed by the council will deter North Korea from developing its nuclear forces. “Their mean and indiscreet act […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States (AFP) — The world’s current population of 7.6 billion will balloon to 9.8 billion in 2050, with India’s numbers to surpass China’s in just seven years, a United Nations report said Wednesday. Nigeria will overtake the United States by 2050 to become the third most populous country in the world, according to the figures by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs. “With roughly 83 million people being added […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — A United States warplane shot down an Iranian-made drone operated by pro-regime forces in Syria early Tuesday, officials said, prompting growing international concern over rising tensions between the two sides. Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime, accused the US-led coalition of “complicity with terrorism” after the drone was downed in southern Syria. It comes days after a US warplane shot down a Syrian government fighter jet in the north […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — The United Nations said Friday that Islamic State group jihadists may be holding more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians as human shields in the Old City of Mosul. Iraqi forces are fighting to retake Mosul from IS, after the jihadist group overran the city in 2014, imposing its brutal rule on its inhabitants. The United Nations refugee agency’s representative in Iraq Bruno Geddo said IS had been capturing civilians in battles outside of […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (Reuters) — Intensified coalition air strikes supporting an assault by U.S.-backed forces on Islamic State’s stronghold of Raqqa in Syria are causing a “staggering loss of civilian life”, United Nations war crimes investigators said on Wednesday (June 14). The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a group of Kurdish and Arab militias supported by a U.S.-led coalition, began to attack Raqqa a week ago to take it from the jihadists. The SDF, supported by heavy […]
(Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned on Wednesday the terrorist attack in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, which killed at least 80 people and injured over 350 others. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that the “Secretary-General expressed his abhorrence at this act and underlined the need to reinforce the fight against terrorism and violent extremism.” He also noted that the “indiscriminate attacks against civilians are grave violations of human rights and international humanitarian law and can […]
by Jennie Matthew Agence France Presse NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton launched a stinging attack on Donald Trump Friday, obliquely comparing him to former president Richard Nixon, who resigned in 1974 to escape impeachment, and savaging the Republican assault on fact-based politics. The defeated Democratic presidential nominee made her remarks in a commencement address at her alma mater Wellesley College, a women’s liberal arts college in Massachusetts, 48 years after […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – It is justified for the World Health Organization (WHO) to not invite Taiwan to the ongoing 70th World Health Assembly (WHA), said a spokesperson for China’s State Council Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing on Thursday. An Fengshan made the remarks at a routine press briefing when asked about WHO’s exclusion of Taiwan from the WHA. “The international community recognizes the one-China principle universally. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 2758 and […]
