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 […]
President-elect Donald Trump tapped South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Wednesday to be the country’s ambassador to the United Nations, the first woman he has named to his Cabinet. The 44-year-old daughter of Indian immigrants is serving her second term as governor of the mid-Atlantic state, but has no foreign policy experience. She is Trump’s […]
UNITED NATIONS — In his final address at the United Nations, President Barack Obama reiterated his strong commitment to multilateralism and the world body. “We can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration or we can retreat into a world sharply divided and ultimately in conflict along old lines of nation […]
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 […]