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EFFORTS NEEDED FOR SUSTAINABLE PROJECTS
Actions by the business community are essential, and government policies need to be informed by science in the interest of the people... READ MORE›
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AS MIGRANT TRAGEDIES SHOCK EUROPE A BIGGER CRISIS LOOMS IN MIDEAST
The United Nations is urging countries worldwide to grant asylum to 130,000 Syrians in the coming year... READ MORE›
AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
AT UN POPE ISSUES SWEEPING CALL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
Standing before the General Assembly in his first speech here Francis endorsed United Nations efforts to reach a global compact to fight poverty and climate change... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN TROOPS 'FIGHTING ALONGSIDE ASSAD'S ARMY AGAINST SYRIAN REBELS'
An unnamed activist with the Syrian rebel group the Free Syrian Army told The Times The Russians have been there a long time... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES
In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE›
READ PUTIN'S U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH
Russia believes in the huge potential of the United Nations, which should help us avoid a new global confrontation and engage in strategic cooperation... READ MORE›
BERNIE SANDERS CAN STILL BEAT HILLARY CLINTON
US election 2016 Why Hillary Clinton could lose the Democratic nomination to Bernie Sanders... READ MORE›
GLOBAL POVERTY DROPS SHARPLY WITH CHINA MAKING BIG STRIDES UN REPORT SAYS
In releasing the report, United Nations officials celebrated meeting some of the goals... READ MORE›
UN SECURITY COUNCIL IS FAILING SYRIA, BAN KI-MOON ADMITS
We need some solidarity unity of purpose particularly among the permanent members of the security council he said in an interview... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
U.N. SAYS SOME OF ITS PEACEKEEPERS WERE PAYING 13-YEAR-OLDS FOR SEX
As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy... READ MORE›
REFUGEE CRISIS IN EUROPE PROMPTS WESTERN ENGAGEMENT IN SYRIA
To aid refugees fleeing the Central African Republic, for instance, he has to dip into a pot of United Nations money not earmarked for specific crises... READ MORE›
TWO POINTS SEPARATE CLINTON AND TRUMP
The Poll of Polls suggests that about 1-in-8 registered voters isn't currently backing Clinton or Trump... READ MORE›
UN ADOPTS AMBITIOUS GLOBAL GOALS AFTER YEARS OF NEGOTIATIONS
The new goals follow and expand on an earlier list, the Millennium Development Goals, adopted by the United Nations in 2000... READ MORE›
70 ACHIEVEMENTS, 70 YEARS: A VISUAL GUIDE TO WHAT THE UN HAS DONE
70 achievements, 70 years a visual guide to what the UN has done... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS
In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL RESIGNS AMID ACCUSATIONS OF SEX ABUSE BY PEACEKEEPERS
For years, the issue of how to stanch sexual abuse in its ranks has bedeviled the United Nations... READ MORE›
MORE THAN 60 MILLION PEOPLE DISPLACED BY WAR IN 2015
The United Nations asks the world to turn its attention Saturday to people displaced by war conflict and other crises... READ MORE›
A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT IS A HUMAN RIGHT
We could have added environmental human rights to that legacy last weekend but we failed... READ MORE›
UKIP JUST WON THEIR FIRST SEATS IN THE WELSH ASSEMBLY
Ukip also took second place to Labour in two Westminster by-elections for seats in Ogmore and Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough... READ MORE›
UN OFFICIAL IN PEACEKEEPER SEX ABUSE CASE RESIGNS
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed a panel to review how the United Nations system as a whole handles allegations of sexual abuse against peacekeepers... READ MORE›
HAITI POSTPONES PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF AS VIOLENCE RISES
The current president's handpicked successor, Jovenel Moise, a banana exporter who was a virtual unknown in Haiti, officially came in first with 32.8 percent of the vote... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS OF U.S. VOTERS IN LIMBO AFTER KANSAS TOUGHENS ELECTION LAW
It's a complete mess, said Marge Ahrens, co-president of the nonpartisan Kansas League of Women Voters... READ MORE›
LEADING CANDIDATE FOR PERU PRESIDENCY BARRED FROM ELECTION OVER TECHNICAL ERROR
Peru's electoral tribunal has barred the second-placed presidential candidate Julio Guzman from the electoral race over a technical error in the registration of his candidacy... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE A VOTE-CHANGER AT FEDERAL ELECTION, SAYS POLL
Policies on renewables and the Great Barrier Reef will also influence the way people vote, according to Lonergan poll... READ MORE›
NATIVE AMERICANS MOVE TO FRONTLINES IN BATTLE OVER VOTING RIGHTS
In sparsely populated states such as North Dakota, with just 739,000 people, congressional elections have been decided by just a few thousand votes... READ MORE›
US PRESSES FOR HAITI RUNOFF VOTE AMID FEARS OF VIOLENCE AND FRAUD
Eight election observer organizations have pulled out over the fraud accusations and chaos, including a Haitian group funded by the United States... READ MORE›
KRISTOL'S WHITE KNIGHT: DAVID FRENCH
Bill Kristol's white knight independent presidential candidate is a fellow conservative writer with no national name recognition David French... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN ENEMIES FIND UNEASY REFUGE TOGETHER AT A UN BASE
Any trip to and from the base requires an armed escort of more than a dozen United Nations peacekeepers... READ MORE›
A FRACTURED DEMOCRATIC PARTY THREATENS CLINTON'S CHANCES AGAINST TRUMP
While Clinton's favorable rating with Sanders supporters has been falling, many of his endorsers think that can be reversed... READ MORE›