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The United Nations had planned to start a maritime salvage operation to prevent leaks from a dilapidated tanker holding four times the oil that spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster. But Houthi insurgents have failed to provide a written security guaran…
Despite the move, analysts believe the prospects for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement remain distant.
The deadly unrest comes just weeks after United Nations and African Union peacekeepers said they would end their mission in the region.
U.N. officials say that the designation of the Houthis as a terrorist organization could choke food deliveries to Yemen, where millions face starvation.
But as he pledged to advance the country’s weaponry, the North Korean leader also said he did “not rule out diplomacy.”
The Lahore High Court said the practice was humiliating and casts suspicion on victims rather than the accused.
He was best known for creating and directing the U.N.’s peacekeeping operations in conflict-filled areas around the world.
After six years of quiet diplomacy as the U.N.’s Middle East envoy, Nickolay Mladenov leaves his post to a chorus of praise from an unlikely choir.
Cronyism and waste in Britain’s pandemic spending.
A United Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague handed down the symbolic life sentence in connection with the 2005 assassination of Rafik Hariri.