Special to WorldTribune.com Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who led the United Nations as secretary general in the 1990s, died on Feb. 16 in an Egyptian hospital. He was 93. Current UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Boutros-Ghali “a memorable leader who rendered invaluable services to world peace and international order.” A senior minister to Egyptian President Hosni […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The “handshake with the enemy” has created a storm of controversy in Iran’s parliament. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif shook hands with U.S. President Barack Obama on Sept. 28 at United Nations headquarters in New York, the first time in 30 years such high-ranking officials from the two long-time enemies shook […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi called for “solidarity among all the peoples of the world,” in the fight against terrorism in his address on Sept. 28 to the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York. “Allow me to ask, how many Muslims must fall victim to this abominable extremism and odious […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party regime did not care for a tweet by Democrat front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton, seeking her party’s 2016 presidential nomination, tweeted on Sept. 27: “Xi hosting a meeting on women’s rights at the UN while persecuting feminists? Shameless.” An editorial in the Global Times responded by comparing […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Egyptian President Abdul Fatah Sisi said regional security is in its “most vulnerable state” and warned that some fighting Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) are “sliding into failure.” In an interview with The Associated Press after his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Sisi said Egypt is engaged in […]
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The specter and shadow of international terrorism tragically clouded the opening of the UN General Assembly session, yet again. The growing menace from ISIS/ISIL jihadi terrorists threatening the sovereignty of Iraq and Syria goes beyond the Middle East and now extends to possible terror strikes in Western Europe […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — A host of “systemic and systematic violations of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights” continue to plague Iran despite the election of the purportedly reformist President Hassan Rouhani. That’s part of a stinging assessment of the current human rights landscape according to Ahmed Shaheed, the UN’s Special Rapporteur […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, dismayed by a U.S. reconciliation drive, has moved closer to ordering air strikes on Iran, a report said. The Gatestone Institute asserted that Netanyahu has placed the international community on notice that Israel was preparing a military option to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program. In a […]
John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The raging civil war in Syria has dominated headlines as well as both the debate and emotions at the UN General Assembly. But beyond the grisly statistics with over 100,000 people killed as well as the toxic political aftermath of chemical weapons use, there remain three other glaring, but […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Aaron Kovac Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been notorious for his criticism of Vladimir Putin’s Russia. As he prepares to leave office at the end of his term this month, many wonder whether his successor will prove to be as aggressive in standing up to Georgia’s “Big Brother”. It would be […]