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- Lucia Mouat
- • July 18, 2020
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In her enjoyable memoir, “The Education of an Idealist,” Samantha Power shifts easily between her family life and her challenging career adventures. She draws on her Irish roots in storytelling — coming to the United States from Dublin at…
- Categories: BOOKS
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- Barbara Crossette
- • January 6, 2017
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While Washington is caught up in the unfolding drama about the extent and motives of Russian hacking and possible attempted manipulation of the 2016 American presidential election, another story is playing out around threats to “punish” the United Nations….
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- Opinion by Irwin Arieff
- • December 21, 2016
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The butterfly effect teaches us that seemingly insignificant actions can have enormous future consequences. A tiny pair of fluttering wings can disturb the air in a way that helps trigger a hurricane halfway around the world. Witness Syria, where…
- Categories: Middle East, OPINIONS, Peace and Security, Security Council, US Foreign Relations
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- Joanne Myers
- • November 26, 2016
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Since 1901, Nobel Prizes have been presented to the designated laureates at ceremonies held on Dec. 10 , the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death. As stipulated in his will, the prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine and literature…
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- Barbara Crossette
- • September 12, 2016
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Government leaders from around the world are gathering in New York for the opening on Tuesday of the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, an event haunted by momentous crises demanding undivided attention and action from all member…
- Categories: General Assembly, Migration, Refugees, US-UN Relations
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- Barbara Crossette
- • March 30, 2016
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With the terror attacks in Brussels still fresh in the memories of arms controllers, a global summit, the last of four held at the urging of President Barack Obama, will take place in Washington, D.C., on March 31 and…
- Categories: Peace and Security, Terrorism
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- Barbara Crossette
- • December 9, 2015
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With barely two days left to reach an international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to slow global warming, a new version of the draft agreement was released Wednesday in Paris. But outstanding disputes remain over how much nations…
- Categories: Climate Change
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 28, 2015
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Monday marked another memorable day for the United Nations, drawing a record number of international leaders for the opening of the General Assembly, but it took an altogether different tone than Friday’s welcome for Pope Francis. On Friday, at…
- Categories: General Assembly, UN Peacekeeping
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 24, 2014
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Amid hypertight security at United Nations headquarters in New York, President Barack Obama told the packed mass of 100-plus global leaders meeting at the opening day of the 69th General Assembly session that the United States, in a current…
- Categories: General Assembly, US-UN Relations
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • September 24, 2013
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The annual United Nations debate of the 68th General Assembly got off to a contentious start on Sept. 24 with pointedly worded but divergent speeches by Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff, and Barack Obama, the president of the United States….
- Categories: General Assembly
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