Iran’s Foreign Ministry dismissed the possibility of a meeting between President Hassan Rouhani and President Trump during the United Nations General Assembly.
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Trump Leaves Open Possibility of Easing Iranian Sanctions to Spur Nuclear Talks
Asked whether he would consider relaxing the penalties if that would ease the path to a meeting, President Trump said, “We’ll see what happens.”
Son of an Ohio Steelworker, Now Palestinian Envoy to the U.N.
Riyad H. Mansour, the ambassador since 2005, attended college in the Midwest and cut his teeth in the American civil rights and antiwar movements.
Britain Dealt Defeat at U.N. Over Its Control of Chagos Islands
United Nations members voted 116 to 6 in support of a resolution demanding that Britain give Mauritius the Chagos Islands, home to an important American military base.
U.N. Court Tells Britain to End Control of Colony Home to U.S. Air Base
The International Court of Justice said Britain acted unlawfully in 1965 when it detached a group of islands from Mauritius, at the time a British colony, to facilitate an American military lease.
Billionaire Wins Defamation Case Against Australian Media Group
Fairfax Media, which owns the Sydney Morning Herald, was ordered to pay $200,000 to Chau Chak Wing, a well-connected political donor in Australia.
In Blow to Haley, U.N. Rejects Measure Condemning Hamas
An effort by Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador, to counter what she called an anti-Israel bias at the United Nations became, in her words, “just another ordinary day.”
North Korea Accuses Washington of Weaponizing Human Rights as Nuclear Talks Stall
President Trump may have said he and Kim Jong-un were “in love,” but the two countries are sparring over the North’s human rights record.