Rick Gladstone
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 11:46
The United States announced Thursday that it would contribute $1 million to a United Nations trust fund to help resettle Iranian exiles in Iraq who have been housed in Camp Hurriya.
Friday, October 25, 2013 - 09:09
Pirates attacked an American-flagged oil industry vessel off the Nigerian coast early Thursday and abducted the captain and the chief engineer, both United States citizens, the Nigerian Navy and a private security firm reported. The abductions appeared to be the first involving American hostages in that region in at least two years.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 07:53
The African Union submitted a formal request to the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday to defer, for at least a year, the trials of Kenya’s president and deputy president in the International Criminal Court at The Hague in order to allow them to deal with the aftermath of last month’s deadly terrorist attack at the Westgate mall in Nairobi.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 00:00
The July seizure of the freighter, the 450-foot Chong Chon Gang, near the Panama Canal caused a spat between Panama and North Korea and Cuba.
Friday, October 18, 2013 - 10:29
The gesture appeared to reflect Saudi Arabia’s simmering annoyance at the Security Council’s record in Syria.
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 12:37
The following covers some questions about Iran’s nuclear program.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013 - 00:00
The lawsuit, which the advocates said they would file in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday morning, will be the strongest action they have taken in pressing the United Nations to acknowledge at least some culpability for the outbreak of cho
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 10:32
France is drafting a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stabilizing the Central African Republic, the chronically dysfunctional country in which a transitional government has failed to stop months of lawless rampaging, atrocities and dire shortages that are attracting extremist militants from neighboring states.
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 08:18
Saudi Arabia, frustrated by what it apparently regarded as policy setbacks over Syria, Iran and Palestinian statehood, abruptly canceled its turn to speak this week at the annual United Nations.
Friday, October 4, 2013 - 08:15
France is drafting a United Nations Security Council resolution aimed at stabilizing the Central African Republic, the chronically dysfunctional country in which a transitional government has failed to stop months of lawless rampaging, atrocities and dire shortages that are attracting extremist militants from neighboring states.