-
The $5.7 billion United Nations Development Program, the U.N.’s flagship anti-poverty agency, is poor at producing lasting results, sets unrealistic or unfocused priorities and often seems...
-
Fox News has learned that Iran will chair the UN Conference on Disarmament at the end of the month.
-
It would be difficult to find a more unlikely chair for the UN-linked Conference on Disarmament than Iran, which will preside over the panel later this month despite longstanding accusations the...
-
U.N. officials and delegates say more than 120 nations agreed to tighter controls on several chemicals and hazardous waste, including a gradual ban on a flame retardant and some new export...
-
That view is likely to enrage even further members of Congress who have circulated letters urging Richard Falk’s ouster after he said last month that the Boston Marathon bombings were connected to...
-
Nations concluding a round of global nuclear talks Friday expressed alarm that many nuclear weapons are kept at a high-alert level and are still being modernized, despite a promise to get rid of...
-
A draft United Nations report says that killer robots that can attack targets without any human input "should not have the power of life and death over human beings."
-
The United Nations official who angered critics by blaming the Boston Marathon bombing on “American global domination” will keep his post.
-
A watchdog group is blasting “shameless and preposterous” commentary by a top United Nations official who blamed the Boston Marathon bombings on “American global domination” and “Tel Aviv,”...
-
A key United Nations official has been charged with spending hundreds of thousands of dollars donated outside normal channels, gaining financial benefits for his family and friends, contrary to...
-
The United Nations Children's Fund says that more than a quarter of children under age 5 worldwide are permanently "stunted" from malnutrition, leaving them physically and intellectually weak and...
-
Even as the mandated sequester bites into U.S. federal spending -- and newly appointed Secretary of State John Kerry boasts that he is cutting his budget by 6 percent -- the State Department is...
-
The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the first U.N. treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar international arms trade.
-
The United Nations spends billions annually to relieve the suffering caused by natural disasters and civil war, but those costly efforts are uncoordinated, overlap or duplicate effort, and often...
-
The suspension was called after Iran and North Korea raised their nameplates refusing to join consensus following speeches outlining their objections to the treaty.
Account
