DAVOS, Switzerland: Europe's crippling debt crisis dominated the world's foremost gathering of business and political leaders, but for the first time the growing inequality between the planet's haves and have-nots became an issue, thanks largely to (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his second term as chief of the United Nations, wants to help people who rose up in the Arab Spring attain and sustain freedom and democracy.
As he embarks on a new five-year term starting New (...)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is expected to approve a U.N. resolution that calls for an immediate end to violence in Yemen and a transfer of power from the president to his deputy.
Diplomats said late Thursday that the (...)
UNITED NATIONS — Egypt's foreign minister said Monday his country will always respect its landmark peace treaty with Israel and is seeking ways to strengthen its "strategic relationship" with the United States.
Mohamed Kamel Amr's comments in an (...)
UNITED NATIONS: Egypt's foreign minister said Monday his country will always respect its landmark peace treaty with Israel and is seeking ways to strengthen its "strategic relationship" with the United States.
Mohamed Amr's comments in an (...)
UNITED NATIONS: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged women world leaders Monday to reach out to the new emerging democracies in the Middle East and North Africa and help ensure that the women who demonstrated, blogged and put their lives on (...)
UNITED NATIONS — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Monday for urgent progress to achieve a world free of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.
The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has been signed by 182 countries and ratified by 154 of them. But it needs (...)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The worst kept secret at the United Nations is that Ban Ki-moon wants a second term as secretary-general and will almost certainly get it, possibly this month. He is expected to launch his re-election campaign Monday.
As he (...)
UNITED NATIONS: President Barack Obama's backing of a key Palestinian demand on the borders of its future state will help win UN recognition of a Palestinian state, Egypt's UN ambassador said Thursday.
Maged Abdelaziz linked Obama's support for (...)
UNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly reached an "informal agreement" to establish a single UN body with greater clout to promote equality for women, a UN official said Thursday.
Jamal Benomar, chief of staff to the General Assembly (...)
What do actress Geena Davis, Britain s Duchess of York, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the World Congress of Muslim Philanthropists have in common?
They re all committed to empowering women.
At a UN event Monday promoting gender (...)
UNITED NATIONS: A UN human rights investigator warned the United States Tuesday that its use of unmanned warplanes to carry out targeted executions may violate international law.
Philip Alston said that unless the Obama administration explains (...)