After UN judges ruled that Kosovo’s secession in 2008 had not broken international law, Serbia has said it will never recognize Kosovar independence. Made after nine years of de facto independence, the UN’s non-binding decision found no reason to prohibit the Serbian province’s declaration. The move violated Serbian territorial integrity, argued Belgrade, which lost Kosovo [...]
Following Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech Monday at the United Nations in which he tried to vilify the United States and its allies, New York Rep. Steve Israel called for the Iranian president to be arrested and tried for “incitement to genocide.” Ahmadinejad’s past calls for the destruction of the state of Israel—specifically his call in 2005 [...]
According to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last Sunday, one of the most shocking environmental disasters of the world is the drying up of the Aral Sea. He called on the leaders in Central Asia to increase and combine efforts in resolving the problem. The Aral Sea, which is located in Uzbekistan, used to be the [...]
Death count in Haiti rises with each day. Hedi Annabi of Tunisia was found killed due to the collapse of the UN’s headquarters. He was was the head of the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in Haiti. Annabi was 66 years old. Aside from Annabi, Luiz Carlos da Costa of Brazil who was the deputy head [...]
In the aftermath of a militant attack on a guesthouse that killed five staff members and wounded nine, the United Nations on Thursday announced new security measures in Afghanistan. A UN statement said, “Effective immediately, the United Nations is taking additional steps to reduce risks to its national and international staff serving in Afghanistan… Although [...]
Afghanistan’s chief of national security, Sayed Ansari, said Saturday that six Afghans have been arrested for planning this week’s guest house suicide attack that killed five UN employees in Kabul. The three suicide bombers were Pakistanis, he added. Mulla Qari Aminullah, a religious teacher from a local mosque, was among the six in custody. He [...]
A UN rights expert said that nearly 40 percent of North Koreans are starving, and a shortfall in international aid means that only a fraction of those people will receive food donations. Vitit Muntarbhorn, the UN special human rights investigator for North Korea, said that the World Food Programme will be able to reach fewer [...]
August had the most fatalities this year for civilians in Afghanistan because of the country’s disputed election and, a UN report warns, violence could rise again when the final results are released. According to the UN report released this week, about 1,500 people died in Afghanistan from the beginning of the year to August. The [...]
