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Crunch time at the UN as candidates vie for top job
The UN is frequently accused of waste and incompetence. Maybe if they started appointing senior people on merit that might change.
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Did Kim Jong-un really execute a minister with an anti-aircraft gun? How do we separate fact from fiction with a secretive state like North Korea?
Yarmouk in Syria is “beyond inhumane” – according to a United Nations Relief and Works Agency spokesperson – but how much do we know about the Palestinian refugee camp?
Saudi Arabia is contributing 100 warplanes and 150,000 soldiers to the military operation in Yemen, despite opposition from Iran and China, as the country slides toward civil war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejects the “apocalyptic scenario” of war with Ukraine, amid continued reports of a crumbling ceasefire.
The UN is frequently accused of waste and incompetence. Maybe if they started appointing senior people on merit that might change.
At least 30 people are killed in heavy shelling by pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, as the leader of rebel fighters says an offensive is “launched”.
It’s pricey being young these days. So where’s the damage being done: every dinner time? Beers? Fags? Or rent? FactCheck has done some sums.
Scan the statements and pronouncements from American politicians of all stripes today, and you’ll see how the murder of Steven J Sotloff has spurred the political world here into rhetoric, if not action.
In her final speech to the UN Security Council, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay says a focus on short-term interests stopped the group from preventing large scale human suffering.
Live updates from the Channel 4 News team as the violence continues.
The United Nations Security Council demands that armed groups allow “safe, secure, full and unrestricted access” to the MH17 crash site.
I’m on the train to New York where the UN Security Council is meeting in a few hours for an emergency session on the downing of MH17 – a session Britain has requested.
President Barack Obama says the United States believes Flight MH17 was shot down, killing 298 innocent people in an act he describes as “an outrage of unspeakable proportions”.
At least 77 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s Gaza offensive, Palestinian officials say – with a family of eight, including five children, the latest additions to the death toll.
Former home secretary David Blunkett is to stand down from parliament at the 2015 general election, he announces.