More than 300 Syrian refugees headed back home to Syria in a convoy on Tuesday, leaving two remote northeastern towns in crisis-stricken Lebanon where anti-refugee sentiment has been surging in recent months. Lebanese officials have long urged the international community to either resettle the refugees in other countries or help them return to Syria. Over the past months, leading Lebanese …
Read More »
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., joined “Fox & Friends” Tuesday to call out the “gullible” Biden administration and United Nations for believing false casualty figures out of Gaza. Cotton reacted to a new U.N. report that lowered the death toll for civilian casualties in Gaza by nearly half, explaining that Hamas has been exaggerating the death toll for months in the …
Read More »
JERUSALEM – In a dramatic shift, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) hasrevised its data pertaining to the number of Palestiniancasualties in the seven-month-old Gaza war, reducing almost by half the number of women and children it previously said were killed in the hostilities between Israel and the Iranian-backed terror group Hamas. According to an …
Read More »
The Iraqi government has requested that the United Nations end a mission set up to promote governance and human rights reforms in the country by the end of 2025, the latest in a series of international bodies operating in the nation that Iraq has sought to wind down. The letter sent Wednesday by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to U.N. …
Read More »
Two universities have decided to rescind United Nations Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s commencement invitations because of student and faculty opposition to the Israel-Hamas war. Xavier University of Louisiana, a Catholic HBCU, said the “regrettable” decision was made in coordination with Thomas-Greenfield’s team to avoid commencement disruptions. “In recent days, we have heard the voices of a number of students and others …
Read More »
The U.S. has promised to vote against any resolution that would seek to grant the Palestinians full membership in the United Nations after a General Assembly resolution passed with significant support from member states. “Our vote does not reflect opposition to Palestinian statehood,” U.S. Deputy Ambassador to the U.N. Robert Wood said after the vote. “We have been very clear …
Read More »
A leading rights group said on Thursday that attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias, which killed thousands in the western region of Darfur last year, constituted a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the area’s non-Arab population. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has been fighting Sudan’s military for over a year, allied with armed militias to carry …
Read More »
About half of Zimbabwe’s population urgently needs food and water after the country’s worst drought in four decades, the U.N. humanitarian agency said Thursday as it launched an appeal for $430 million to help those most in need. About 7.6 million of the country’s 15 million people need “lifesaving and life-sustaining” humanitarian assistance, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of …
Read More »
The U.S. will face a difficult decision if the Palestinians should succeed in establishing a workaround toward official recognition, which could trigger America pulling all funding from the U.N. in protest, according to experts. “If the draft resolution as it currently stands is adopted, U.S. law demands that the U.S. withhold all funds from the U.N.,” Anne Bayefsky, director of …
Read More »
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday rejected China’s argument that Australia was responsible for a dangerous weekend encounter between their military aircraft in international airspace over the Yellow Sea. Both China and Australia lodged official protests and blamed each other for a Chinese warplane’s extraordinary use of flares against an Australian navy helicopter on Saturday. The Seahawk’s pilot had …
Read More »
