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There’s been condemnation of the talk of nuclear strikes at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
What you may ask has a local authority run market got to do with the Office of the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights? Well in the case of the Seven Sisters area of London quite a lot. The Latin American community there objected to the proposed regeneration of it’s stalls and their phone-a-friend…
The United Nations has dramatically raised the number of people killed in the Syrian uprising and civil war – calling the death toll “truly shocking”. Dozens more people died in attacks today.
Syria agrees on the terms of a ceasefire monitoring mission which will see more United Nations observers deployed.
The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, tells Channel 4 News that “horrible acts of torture” are taking place in hospitals in the cities of Homs, Deraa and Hama.
Defence analyst Anthony Tucker-Jones argues that Russia’s refusal to recognise the inevitable in Syria is condemning the country to an agonising death.
Day four of Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq inquiry sees the appearance of Sir Jeremy Greenstock, UK ambassador to the United Nations in the run-up to the decision to go to war.
Gordon Brown is a very angry man today. That much was obvious from my all too brief encounter with him this afternoon. I was holed up in the tiny offices the British mission have here in the UN building along with political editors from BBC, ITV Sky and Five News. Waiting to take our turns…
Western politicians have called for the UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber to be removed from the position amid fears that his day job, running a fossil fuel giant, leaves him hopelessly compromised.
What happens when governments throw away the carrot and pick up the stick?
A pre-election pledge by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanhayu to annex almost a third of the West Bank has been described by Saudi Arabia as a “very dangerous escalation”. The controversial proposal has also provoked criticism from the United Nations and other Arab states. But it’s not the first time Mr Netanyahu has made…
African leaders have demanded that Donald Trump apologise over his alleged use of a vulgar term to describe their nations. The Ghanaian president called the words he is said to have used “extremely unfortunate” and 54 African ambassadors to the United Nations condemned what they said were his “outrageous, racist and xenophobic remarks”. The US…
Gary Gibbon
The next two days see a Nato meeting, a meeting of foreign ministers, and an EU gathering. Will countries with widely differing agendas on Ukraine be able to find a way forward?
Jonathan Rugman
You’d have to go back over 15 years to find such constructive interaction between Iran and the west, and over 35 years since Iranian and American leaders last met.
A young girl in a coma, believed to be a victim of an alleged gas attack in Syria, is reunited with her grandmother. Channel 4 News reporter Inigo Gilmore has the full story.