united nations
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Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dead at 80
Kofi Annan, the well-respected former Secretary-General of the United Nations who also won a Nobel Peace Prize, died Saturday after a short illness. He was 80 years old. His family and the Kofi Annan Foundation confirmed his death via Twitter and said he was surrounded by his wife and their three children in his last…
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US Tried to Get Cute on Iran but Was Promptly Rebuffed by Russia, Which Asked About Black Lives Matter
The old adage “When you point the finger, you have three pointing back at you” rang true in the United Nations on Friday as the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., and former Republican governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley inexplicably called an emergency session to lecture the Iranians about their crackdown on protests in that…
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#NetNeutrality: United Nations Expert Concerned About US Repeal of Open-Internet Rules
On the heels of the Federal Communications Commission voting to repeal the net neutrality rules that keep the internet free and open for everyone, the United Nations’ expert on freedom of speech expressed concern Wednesday that the ramifications of that decision could lead to small and independent voices being silenced on the web. David Kaye,…
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US Ambassador Nikki Haley Threatens UN Members Not to Vote Against the US and No One Cares
I don’t know what it means when the United Nations doesn’t fuck with you, but this is the America we live in. The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to condemn President Donald Trump’s rushed decision to claim that Jerusalem is now the capital of Israel and that he was moving the U.S. Embassy…
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The Faces of the Zimbabwean Delegation Listening to Trump Speak Are the Blackest Thing That Ever Happened This Week
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is a terrible person. He’s stolen elections, he’s bankrupted the country’s economy, he’s murdered citizens and his wife beats models with extension cords (???), and the world will be a better place when he’s dead. (Speaking of which, he’s 93 years old, but don’t allow that to give you hope, because…
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5 Ways Trump’s UN Speech Proves He’s the World’s White-Supremacist-in-Chief
President Donald Trump delivered what essentially was a truncated version of his typical campaign stump speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. Rife with themes of white supremacy, Trump’s words signaled to the world that the motivations of America’s foreign policy are the same as its domestic policy: white male hegemony. Throughout his…
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Over 5.5 Million South Sudanese at Risk for Starvation: Report
More than 5 million South Sudanese men, women and children are at risk for starvation, according to reports from the country itself and the United Nations. The South Sudanese government has declared famine in two counties of the country, according to an announcement by the South Sudan government and three U.N. agencies. The catastrophe is…
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Israeli Prime Minister Attacks Obama Over UN Resolution
For a second consecutive day on Sunday, the prime minister of Israel denounced President Barack Obama’s administration, publicly accusing it of having orchestrated Friday’s United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Jewish settlements in occupied territories, according to the New York Times. Despite denials from Washington, Benjamin Netanyahu publicly decried the fact that the United States refrained…
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Trump Picks SC Gov. Nikki Haley for US Ambassador to UN
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is reported to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. President-elect Donald Trump has picked Haley, the first woman and critic of Trump’s campaign to be chosen for a top-level position, sources told the Associated Press. If confirmed by the Senate, Haley, an Asian American, would be the…
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Just Wondering Why Wonder Woman's a UN Ambassador, but Real Women of Color Are Not
The first 20 times I saw Rocky III (the one with Mr. T as Clubber Lang, that bad n-word that sullied the championship so bad, the “respectable” black, retired champion Apollo Creed joined forces with Rocky to take him down), I didn’t know that the Rocky Balboa statue in that 1982 film actually existed in…