Tag: United Nations

The U.S. has made annual payments to the climate change fund since 1992. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Energy and Environment

Senate committee defies Trump, approves $10 million for UN climate change fund

Josh Siegel · September 7, 2017 9:22 pm

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said she turned down President Trump's offer to be secretary of state because she didn't think she was qualified for the position. "I just thought he could find someone better." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Nikki Haley told Trump she didn’t want to be secretary of state

Caitlin Yilek · September 7, 2017 2:38 pm

Look Who Will Be Joining the U.N. Human Rights Council

Anne Bayefsky · September 7, 2017 8:52 am

"If we don't get these additional sanctions at the UN, as I mentioned over the weekend, I have an executive order prepared, that's ready to go to the president that will authorize to stop doing trade and put sanctions on anybody that does trade with North Korea," Mnuchin said Wednesday to reporters. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

National Security

Steve Mnuchin: US prepared to sanction countries that trade with North Korea if UN fails to act

Diana Stancy Correll · September 7, 2017 2:18 am

Russia opposes international efforts to restrict North Korea's access to oil, President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday. (Sergei Bobylev/TASS News Agency Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin wants to protect North Korea’s access to oil

Joel Gehrke · September 6, 2017 5:19 pm

Haley denied making a direct case against staying in the deal, however. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

National Security

Nikki Haley: Iran deal is not ‘untouchable’

Joel Gehrke · September 5, 2017 8:57 pm

China and Russia made it clear they were unlikely to support more sanctions. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

National Security

US splits with China, Russia on North Korea solution at UN

Pete Kasperowicz · September 4, 2017 4:05 pm

Trump administration has indicated it will be looking to sanction any country that does any business with North Korea.
(AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

National Security

US seeks UN vote next week to punish North Korea for nuclear test

Josh Siegel · September 4, 2017 3:45 pm

"We have taken an incremental approach, and despite the best of intentions, it has not worked." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Nikki Haley tells UN: ‘Enough is enough’ on North Korea

Josh Siegel · September 4, 2017 2:34 pm

Visitors walk by the map of South Korea and North Korea at the Imjingak Pavilion in Paju, South Korea, Sunday, Sept. 3, 2017. North Korea says it has detonated a thermonuclear weapon at an underground testing facility in its sixth and most powerful nuclear test to date. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

UN Security Council to meet on North Korea nuclear threat

Steven Nelson · September 3, 2017 7:09 pm

"To call these news organizations 'fake' does tremendous damage," U.N. Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

UN human rights chief says Trump’s careening ‘the bus of humanity’ ‘down a mountain path’

Naomi Lim · August 30, 2017 9:39 pm

"If anyone in the Middle East or [an]other part of the world plans to violate international law by undermining any other country's sovereignty or territorial integrity, including any country in the Middle East or North Africa, this would be condemned," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia warns Israel not to attack Iran in Syria

Joel Gehrke · August 30, 2017 4:46 pm