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Shashi Tharoor
Arts, Culture & Media
In Praise of Good Men
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Global Politics
Confronting the new geopolitics of ‘net-states’
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a session on reforming the United Nations at U.N. Headquarters in New York, U.S., September 18, 2017.
Global Politics
President Trump attends his first UN General Assembly this week. Here’s what to expect.
Iran rocket launch
Conflict
US, Europeans push UN to react to Iran’s ‘threatening’ rocket launch
United Nations peacekeepers meet women and children on their path during a patrol near Bentiu, northern South Sudan, Feb. 11, 2017.
Conflict
President Trump, do you think cutting UN funding by 50 percent will make America safer?
Draft executive orders proposed a 40% cut in funding to the United Nations.
Global Politics
What a cut to its UN funding does to US leverage in the world
A construction site in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa, known to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim, in the West Bank, on Dec. 22.
Global Politics
Netanyahu: Obama failed to protect Israel against UN ‘gang-up’ and ‘colluded behind the scenes’
Isreali settlements west bank
Conflict
UN Security Council postpones vote on Israeli settlements
Police use pepper spray against protesters trying to cross a stream near an oil pipeline construction site near Standing Rock Indian Reservation, north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 2, 2016.
Conflict
The United Nations heads to North Dakota to investigate possible human rights abuses
The United Nations General Assembly hall in New York, April 2016.
Economics
The UN just took on antibiotic resistance, but can diplomacy help us combat disease?
A group of children jump and reach for a ball on a volleyball court at a refugee camp in Germany after World War II
Conflict
It’s not just the Olympics. Sports have been important in refugee camps for decades.
displaced yemeni girl stands
Conflict
UN blacklisted Saudi coalition for killing children in Yemen — then abruptly changed its mind
Burnt vehicles in front of a hospital hit by airstrikes, in a rebel-held area of Aleppo.
Global Politics
UN reminds members not to kill doctors
Abdallah Abu-Bakr Al-Ghazouli fled Darfur in 2007. He's tried to get refugee status in Lebanon since. Now he and some other Sudanese asylum seekers are camping out 100 feet from the UNHCR office in Beirut.
Conflict
In Lebanon, if you’re not a Syrian it’s even harder to get refugee status
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza speak to the press in Gitega, Burundi.
Conflict
US Ambassador Samantha Power: ‘The match could be laid’ to ignite Burundi conflict
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York, September 28, 2015.
Global Politics
Putin returns to the UN to cut a deal with the West on Syria
David Hyde stands in front of his tent in Geneva, Switzerland.
Business
Update: Tent-living UN intern ‘comes clean,’ planned stunt to publicize intern conditions
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power reads a statement following a United Nations Security Council vote on a resolution about the ongoing crisis in Iraq on August 15, 2014.
Conflict
Shocking photos push Samantha Power to seek peace in Syria
The interpreters' booth at the Nuremberg trials. From left to right: Capt. Macintosh, British Army, translates from French into English; Miss Margot Bortlin, translates from German into English; Lt. Ernest Peter Uiberall, Monitor.
Global Politics
How the Nuremberg Trials changed interpretation forever
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, who fled violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar, sleep on the ground at the Bajed Kadal refugee camp in southwest Dohuk province on August 23, 2014.
Conflict
A former UN relief coordinator says Iraqi and Syrian refugees pose the biggest humanitarian crisis of our generation
Global Politics
The State Department has given Syria’s UN Ambassador a very tight virtual leash
Michael Kirby, chairperson of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea holds a copy of his report during a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva February 17, 2014.
Conflict & Justice
A UN report details atrocities in North Korea that are painful to even imagine
An ex-Seleka soldier stands guard in Bossangoa, Central African Republic.
Conflict & Justice
France reasserts itself in Africa, with fresh troops to a troubled Central African Republic
The OPCW Inspection Team leaving for Syria on 30 September.
Conflict & Justice
Nobel Prize shoves the small Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons into the spotlight
Even before the chemical attack, the Zamalka neighborhood of Damascus suffered government bombardment.
Conflict & Justice
Weapons inspectors have nothing to offer residents of destroyed Damascus neighborhood
Global Politics
Did he or didn’t he accept the Holocaust? You decide