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December 20, 2015

Gulf states want weapons, promises from US for Iran nuke deal support

Leading Persian Gulf states want major new weapons systems and security guarantees from the White House in exchange for backing a nuclear agreement with Iran, according to U.S. and Arab officials.

December 20, 2015

US-built Ebola treatment centers reportedly sit empty in Liberia

Several treatment centers built by U.S. troops and meant to receive Ebola patients are sitting empty or nearly empty in the West African country of Liberia, according to a published report. 

December 20, 2015

US reportedly supplying Ukraine military with obsolete equipment

The U.S. has been supplying Ukrainian forces with obsolete equipment, some of which dates back almost thirty years, according to a published report.

December 12, 2015

Kerry says no nuke deal yet with Iran, Israel PM criticizing plan to loosen sanctions

Israel remains defiant and outraged over talks between the international community and Iran over its nuclear program – talks that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the ‘deal of the century’ for Tehran.

December 10, 2015

Did UN food aid for Yemen go to the not-so-poor?

The United Nations World Food Program has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on food aid intended for the most desperately poor people in Yemen -- but included not just impoverished households, but also some that  “belonged to the wealthiest” categories on a national social welfare scale, according to the agency’s own audit report.

December 9, 2015

UNICEF’s North Korea office barred from oversight of its own health projects, audit probe warns

Five years after the United Nations Development Program closed, then reopened its offices in North Korea amid controversy over the payout of hard currency to the rogue communist government and other issues, the child relief agency UNICEF has some of the same glaring problems, according to its own auditors.

December 9, 2015

UN children’s agency sells itself to big business, big donors

With governments increasingly unwilling to contribute funds, UNICEF is gambling that it can entice more than half a billion additional dollars from private individuals and multinational corporate partners over the next three years — and rebrand itself as a different kind of 21st Century global child welfare agency in the process.

December 8, 2015

Despite UN claims, Ebola relief efforts ‘dangerously’ uncoordinated, medical emergency group says

EXCLUSIVE: As United Nations coordinators are claiming success in getting a handle on the Ebola crisis in West Africa, the medical organization that first sounded an alarm about the epidemic warns that the response is ragged, many areas are not getting help, and U.N. coordinating efforts are not having much impact.

December 5, 2015

UN agency food aid vouchers in Syrian crisis diverted and sold for cash

A World Food Program initiative that handed out hundreds of millions of dollars of food vouchers has been confronted with "persistent" diversion and sale of the vouchers to middlemen for cash by the growing flood of Syrian refugees in neighboring Jordan and Lebanon, according to its internal auditors.

December 2, 2015

State leaders plan to sue if Syrian refugees settle in TX

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