WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden announced Wednesday that he has picked Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, to run the agency...
NEW YORK (AP) — A free e-book collection allows fans of Tracy Chevalier, JoJo Moyes and more than 40 other writers to read early excerpts of their upcoming books.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Several justices on the nation's highest court are in Massachusetts to celebrate the bicentennial of Harvard Law School.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has been joined by Justices Anthony Kennedy, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Neil Gorsuch and retired Justice David Souter at Thursday's event on campus. They are all Harvard Law School alumni.
NEW YORK (AP) — Former U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power is writing a memoir about her transition from writing a Pulitzer Prize-winning condemnation of foreign policy to becoming a leading public advocate for the government.
Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that it had acquired Power's "The Education of an Idealist." A release date has not yet been determined.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. green light that allowed the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem could spur moves toward new terms to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it also poses dangers for the United Nations with the incoming Trump administration and may harden Israel's attitude toward concessions.
BEIRUT (AP) — The latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
12:30 a.m.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says member nations must ensure the urgent deployment of United Nations monitors to former rebel-held areas in eastern Aleppo, citing reports of people dying of exposure overnight waiting for evacuation.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Friday she favors a French-drafted U.N. resolution calling for independent international monitors to oversee the evacuation of civilians and rebel fighters from war-torn Aleppo. But Russia's ambassador was not as quick to embrace the plan, saying "it takes weeks to deploy observers."
BEIRUT (AP) — The latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
11:45 p.m.
Syria's U.N. ambassador is hailing "the liberation of Aleppo" and rejecting allegations that his country's military has carried out revenge attacks and executions of civilians.
PARIS (AP) — As Western nations dig in to protect their own citizens, their territory and their way of life, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations warned on Wednesday that a security challenge may await them down the road if they fail to do their share in sheltering refugees today.
Samantha Power said that from the United States to Europe to the Middle East "no one was ready" for the crisis.
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — The Latest on the migrant situation in Europe (all times local):
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The United States' U.N. ambassador says Western nations may face a security challenge down the road if they fail to do their share in sheltering arriving refugees now.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Has the Obama administration quietly recognized the World War I-era killing of Armenians as genocide?
The term has long been taboo for U.S. officials, including President Barack Obama, who have instead talked of mass atrocity and historical tragedy. But Obama's U.N. ambassador last week went further than her boss by describing the event as genocide.
President-elect Donald Trump's choice for United Nations ambassador, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, has limited foreign policy experience. That's in contrast to other U.N. ambassadors who had deep roots in international affairs at the time of their nominations.
A look at the backgrounds of the four most recent U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations:
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
9:15 p.m.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is naming five Syrian commanders allegedly responsible for carrying out military assaults on cities, residential areas and civilian infrastructure since 2011, saying "one day they will be held accountable."
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States abstained for the first time in 25 years Wednesday on a U.N. resolution condemning America's economic embargo against Cuba, a measure it had always vehemently opposed.
The U.S. was joined in abstaining by Israel, the only other country to vote against the embargo resolution in the General Assembly last year. When the vote — 191-0 with two abstentions — was shown on the electronic board, diplomats from the 193 U.N. member states burst into applause.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders meeting at the United Nations starting Monday will be trying to make progress on two intractable problems at the top of the global agenda — the biggest refugee crisis since World War II and the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year which has claimed over 300,000 lives.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders meeting at the United Nations starting Monday will be trying to make progress on two intractable problems at the top of the global agenda — the biggest refugee crisis since World War II and the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year that has claimed over 300,000 lives.
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria, where the U.S. military says it may have unintentionally struck government forces. (all times local):
3:20 a.m.
Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin says the U.S. airstrike that apparently struck Syrian government troops has put "a very big question mark" over the future of the U.S. and Russian-brokered cease-fire agreement in Syria.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In one of his last major appearances on the world stage, President Barack Obama will try to define how his leadership has made the planet safer and more prosperous when he gives his farewell speech to the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday.
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan has agreed to the deployment of a 4,000-strong regional protection force approved by the U.N. Security Council after first rejecting the peacekeepers as a violation of its sovereignty.
Sunday's announcement came after the Security Council met with South Sudan President Salva Kiir during a rare visit to the turbulent East African country.
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations is calling for an independent commission to take testimony from rape victims of a rampage by South Sudanese soldiers at a hotel compound popular with foreigners.
Ambassador Samantha Power spoke Saturday as the U.N. Security Council visited the country on the brink of renewed civil war. Fighting in the capital, Juba, in July killed hundreds.
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N. Security Council arrived Friday in South Sudan's capital to threaten an arms embargo and sanctions if the government rejects a plan to bring in another 4,000 peacekeepers.
The rare visit focuses on the council's decision to deploy the peacekeepers with a strengthened mandate to protect civilians after numerous reports of rapes and attacks by government troops after renewed fighting erupted in Juba in July.