US pulls Unesco funding after Palestine is granted full membership
The United States has cut off funds to Unesco as a punitive action after the Palestinian Authority was accepted into the UN agency as a full member in defiance of American, Israeli and European pressure. The overwhelming backing for the Palestinians' bid to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation was a huge boost for their campaign for international recognition of
Obama arrives at UN as pressure grows on Palestinians over statehood bid
Barack Obama arrived at the United Nations on Monday evening as pressure intensified on the Palestinian leadership to abandon its plan to ask the UN security council to declare the occupied territories a Palestinian state. The Europeans are at the forefront of attempts to persuade the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, to back off from the request. Even France, which is generally sympathetic to
Dag Hammarskjöld: evidence suggests UN chief's plane was shot down
New evidence has emerged in one of the most enduring mysteries of United Nations and African history, suggesting that the plane carrying the UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjöld was shot down over Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) 50 years ago, and the murder was covered up by British colonial authorities. A British-run commission of inquiry blamed the crash in 1961 on pilot error and a later UN inv
Dutch state responsible for three Srebrenica deaths, says court | World news | guardian.co.uk
Dutch court rules troops should not have allowed men to leave safe area or fall into the hands of Bosnian Serb forcesAppeal court judges in the Netherlands have ruled that the Dutch state was responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men after the fall of Srebrenica during the Bosnian war, in a verdict that opens the door to compensation claims.Dutch troops were in charge of the UN-declared "safe
Obama Takes Hard Line With Libya After Shift by Clinton (Published 2011)
WASHINGTON — In a Paris hotel room on Monday night, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates for sending troops to quash protests in Bahrain even as she pressed him to send planes to intervene in Libya. Only the day before, Mrs. Clinton
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US diplomats spied on UN leadership
Washington is running a secret intelligence campaign targeted at the leadership of the United Nations, including the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon and the permanent security council representatives from China, Russia, France and the UK. A classified directive which appears to blur the line between diplomacy and spying was issued to US diplomats under Hillary Clinton's name in July 2009, demanding
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Judges call for reopening of inquiry into 1961 death of UN chief
The Point Guard
U.N. Peacekeepers at War in the Congo
Palestinians Inch Closer to Rejection at U.N. Body (Published 2011)
Palestinians Win a Vote on Bid to Join Unesco (Published 2011)
Response: It is wrong to suggest that Dag Hammarskjöld was murdered
Security Council Debate Offers Preview of Palestinian Bid (Published 2011)
The gospel according to Mark
UN director in Gaza quits for new post
A Bloated U.N. Bureaucracy Causes Bewilderment (Published 2011)
Gay rights row breaks out over amended UN resolution
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Disquiet grows over performance of Ban Ki-moon, UN's 'invisible man'