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BARACK OBAMA CANCELS MEETING AFTER PHILIPPINES PRESIDENT CALLS HIM 'SON OF A WHORE'


Barack Obama has cancelled a meeting with the president of the Philippines after Rodrigo Duterte appeared to call him a son of a whore ... READ MORE

6th September, 2016 18355

PHILIPPINE LEADER DIRECTS AN EXPLETIVE AT OBAMA


Mr. Obama had planned to meet Mr. Duterte in Laos, but the White House said early Tuesday that the meeting had been canceled... READ MORE

6th September, 2016 17658

OBAMA CALLS OFF MEETING WITH PHILIPPINE LEADER AFTER 'WHORE' JIBE


Mr Duterte was responding to the US president's promise to raise the issue of drug-related extra-judicial killings in the Philippines at their meeting... READ MORE

6th September, 2016 11409

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

29th August, 2015 10992

DUTERTE DUMPS THE US: WHAT COULD BE LOST?


The US is the Philippines' third-largest trading partner after Japan and China... READ MORE

21st October, 2016 9665

DUTERTE TELLS OBAMA 'SON OF A WHORE' REMARK WASN'T PERSONAL


Duterte made his initial remarks following weeks of criticism from the US against extrajudicial killings in the Philippines' bloody drug war... READ MORE

6th September, 2016 8481

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT CALLS OBAMA 'THE SON OF A W****' AS HE REFUSES TO BE LECTURED ON HUMAN RIGHTSA


Duterte has angrily rejected criticism from the Catholic Church, human rights groups, legislators and the United Nations... READ MORE

5th September, 2016 4786

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

23rd June, 2015 4415

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

25th September, 2015 3852

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

2nd September, 2015 3169

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT DUTERTE TELLS OBAMA TO 'GO TO HELL'


President Rodrigo Duterte gives a fist-bump gesture during his visit to the Philippine army's Camp Mateo in Rizal province east of Manila on Aug. 25... READ MORE

4th October, 2016 2954

TENSIONS OVER SOUTH CHINA SEA BELIE SUMMIT CORDIALITY


China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei claim parts or all of the resource-rich South China Sea, making it a hot spot of regional tension... READ MORE

7th September, 2016 2738

EDITORIAL LOST VOICES OF THE WORLDS REFUGEES


In the many conferences and diplomatic discussions about refugees, their own voices are rarely heard... READ MORE

15th June, 2015 2502

ABE COULD PLAY PEACEMAKER ROLE AFTER PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT STIRS ANGER VOICES REGRET FOR OBAMA INSULT


Heydarian noted that Japan has close ties with the Philippines, which have only grown amid China's bellicose moves in the South China and East China seas... READ MORE

7th September, 2016 2446

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

28th September, 2015 1698

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

6th July, 2015 1445

NEW CHINESE VESSELS SEEN NEAR DISPUTED REEF IN SOUTH CHINA SEA


In a sweeping ruling against China on the South China Sea in July, an international tribunal in The Hague focused on Scarborough Shoal... READ MORE

5th September, 2016 1230

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

7th September, 2015 1176

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

26th September, 2015 1139

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

12th January, 2016 1105

REPORTING ON LIFE DEATH AND CORRUPTION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA


I came to see Southeast Asia as a land of great people and bad governments, of remarkable graciousness but distressing levels of impunity... READ MORE

22nd February, 2016 1062

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

1st October, 2015 979

CHINA DESERVES RESPECT IT NOW ENJOYS[1]


In terms of the South China Sea issue, Duterte said he prefers negotiation to confrontation... READ MORE

18th October, 2016 951

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

26th September, 2015 774

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

21st September, 2015 770

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

26th August, 2015 710

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT CREATING UNCERTAINTY CAUSING DISTRESS US DIPLOMAT SAYS


Beijing's claims to South China Sea rejected by international tribunal Today's coverage from Post correspondents around the world... READ MORE

25th October, 2016 685

U.S. PROTESTS CHINESE ACTION IN S. CHINA SEA


U.s. protests after chinese military jet lands on south china sea island... READ MORE

19th April, 2016 663

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

12th August, 2015 612

AFTER THE SLUR AND SNUB -- FINALLY A HANDSHAKE BETWEEN OBAMA AND PHILIPPINES' RODRIGO DUTERTE


Multiple news outlets in the Philippines reported that Duterte's daughter recently suffered a miscarriage... READ MORE

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