NEW YORK – The U.N. General Assembly will vote Friday to give rotating seats on the powerful 15-nation Security Council to five countries. Albania, Brazil, Gabon, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates are all running unchallenged for two-year terms. But to succeed, each will still need to secure a two-thirds majority of the secret ballots […]
First there was panic, then bluster. The alert the U.S. military gave Russia on Thursday of an upcoming cruise missile strike was quickly circulated by Russian officials to their Syrian counterparts. Fearing the al-Shayrat air base might not be the only target, many fled Damascus or hustled their families out of the Syrian capital, according […]
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday removed his chief political strategist, Stephen Bannon, from the National Security Council, reversing an early appointment that had drawn the ire of foreign policy experts in Washington. Some lawmakers and others steeped for years in U.S. foreign policy decision-making had said that it was inappropriate that Bannon, whose chief […]
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council has approved new sanctions against North Korea aimed at cutting off funding for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The session included remarks from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who rarely attends council votes. “Today’s resolution includes the toughest and most comprehensive sanctions regime ever imposed by the Security […]
Following yesterday’s announcement by South Korea that they suspected that North Korea had detonated a nuclear device, North Korea told the world today that they had, in fact, detonated their largest nuclear device to date. North Korea did not notify the international community in advance of yesterday’s test which marked North Korea’s 68th anniversary of […]
The United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a global chemical weapons watchdog group, have finished up their confidential report on the use of chemical weapons by the government of Syria as well as the Islamic State in 2014-2015. The UN and OPCW have concluded in their year-long investigation, that both […]
The United Nations Security Council remains divided over how to respond to North Korea’s increasingly provocative missile tests, while Japan and South Korea continue to face opposition at home and abroad for pursuing more aggressive military policies. The 15-member Security Council on Wednesday met at the request of Japan and the United States after North Korea […]