2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (240+ words) This Week @UN: The latest UN Sec Gen candidate; football/soccer diplomacy; anti-gang force lands in Haiti; US-China summit's meaning for the UN. Plus: False ceasefire in Lebanon; Ebola outbreak in Congo & Uganda; Rubio calls Guterres; Israeli breaches of UN…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1341+ words) By late April, a total of 400 Chadian military officers were on the ground. Chad has pledged a battalion of 1, 500 military officers to work for the GSF, as it's known. Another main newcomer for the GSF is Jack Christofides, a South…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (926+ words) Soccer balls and bratwurst sizzled under the late-afternoon sun as dozens of United Nations ambassadors played a series of friendly, 15-minute football matches on the UN's North Lawn Tuesday night, May 19. For once, the diplomats were all getting along, men…...

5+ day, 14+ min ago  (333+ words) From negotiating Indigenous land rights in the Ecuadorian Amazon to presiding over the United Nations General Assembly, Mar'a Fernanda Espinosa, 61, has spent three decades moving between the corridors of multilateral diplomacy and the front lines of international policymaking. Now she…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago  (567+ words) The recent two-day Beijing summit between Presidents Trump and Xi Jinping has come and gone. There was pageantry: Military honors, flag-waving children, flowers and toasts. Both governments declared success. The relationship has been stabilized, which is not nothing, but the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (607+ words) This Week @UN: Trump's faltering Afrikaner program; women's disability rights in Saudi Arabia; NPT-review marathon. Plus: US money for "lifesaving" aid; the UN grows in Nairobi; Guterres's "great emotion" for Africa; a new woman UN Sec-Gen candidate; Somalia's famine risk....

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1342+ words) In March 1970, more than 70 percent of the first signatories of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons took the next step to ratify it, setting a course for phasing out nuclear weapons, allowing the use of nuclear energy for…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (317+ words) I started having stomach pain; my intestines and stomach shrank. My employer denied me medical attention. .. instead, he yelled, "You came here to work, you did not come here to be sick," and poured scalding hot water on me. .. . I…...

2+ week, 54+ min ago  (1325+ words) According to a recent Reuters report, four South Africans who arrived this year in the US have since returned. According to reports on You Tube, another family of nine who were resettled in Florida have expressed willingness to go back…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (430+ words) This Week @UN: New UN refugee chief in Mexico; China succeeds without trying; rewriting global anti-torture rules. Plus: Peacekeepers stay put in Lebanon; ceasefires by Russia & Ukraine; Ted Turner, $1 billion benefactor; global hantavirus risk; eastern DR Congo's resurging violence; UN…...