Author: EDITH-M-LEDERER—Associated-Press
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25 years after landmark UN resolution, UN chief says women are too often absent from peace talks
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Twenty-five years after a landmark U.N. resolution demanded equal participation for women in all efforts to promote peace, the United Nations chief said Tuesday that far too often women remain absent. At the same time, sexual violence against women and girls is on the rise and 676 million women live within…
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US escalates criticism of Colombia’s president at the UN, calls for action against drug trafficking
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States accused Colombia’s president on Friday of undermining progress to lasting peace and urged its government to make combating violence and drug trafficking by “narco-terrorist groups” a priority. U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz told a U.N. Security Council meeting that President Gustavo Petro’s policies in Colombia and around the world…
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Rohingya Muslims plead for help at the UN to stop the killings in Myanmar
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Rohingya Muslims pleaded with the international community at the first United Nations high-level meeting on the plight of the ethnic minority to prevent the mass killings taking place in Myanmar and to help those in the persecuted group lead normal lives. “This is a historic occasion for Myanmar, but this is…
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UN authorizes a much larger force to fight gangs in Haiti with new power to arrest gang members
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Tuesday to authorize a much larger, 5,550-member international force with expanded powers to help stop escalating gang violence in Haiti. The resolution, co-sponsored by the United States and Panama, will transform the current Kenya-led multinational force into a “Gang Suppression Force” with the power to arrest…
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Mideast nations confront chaos in their region, which Egypt warns ‘is at a point of implosion’
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Oman — all nations in the thick of the unrest that has pervaded the Middle East — confronted the crisis in the region at the annual U.N. gathering of world leaders, with Egypt’s top diplomat warning that the Mideast “is at a point…
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South Korea’s top diplomat says his nation has asked Trump to be a ‘peacemaker’ with North Korea
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — South Korea’s president has asked President Donald Trump to become “a peacemaker” and use his leadership to get North Korea to talks to reduce military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the South’s top diplomat said Friday. Trump “welcomed” the request from President Lee Jae Myung and “he expressed his willingness to…
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World leaders step up efforts behind the scenes at the UN to end the war in Sudan
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Behind the scenes at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, key countries and regional organizations have been coordinating efforts to try to end the horrific war in Sudan, which has created the most devastating humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world. Alan Boswell, the International Crisis Group’s…
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Brazil’s Lula says he was as surprised as Trump with their `chemistry’ despite bad relations
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Brazil’s president said Wednesday he was as surprised as U.S. President Donald Trump when they met by chance and “there was some chemistry,” given the deteriorating relations between the two largest economies in the Americas. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told a news conference that their first-ever encounter made him “very…
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Ukraine’s president says the world is in `the most destructive arms race in human history’
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told global leaders Wednesday that the world is in “the most destructive arms race in human history” and urged the international community to act against Russia now, asserting that Vladimir Putin wants to expand his war in Europe. In a bleak view of today’s world, he told…
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After mechanical challenges, UN says Trump’s team to blame for nonworking escalator and teleprompter
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump broke from his prepared remarks at the United Nations on Tuesday to bemoan an inoperable escalator and a defective teleprompter, using the incidents to portray the global body as dysfunctional. “All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that on the way up stopped right in…