Former US envoy to the UN John Bolton speaks to NDTV New Delhi: Former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton today told NDTV that the United Nations is a huge organisation and that many bodies of the global body are irrelevant. He said the UN’s massive size is a part of its problems. “Some…
US President Joe Biden made another staggering bloomer on Wednesday, mistakenly welcoming world leaders to Washington while speaking at an event in Midtown Manhattan. The slip took place at the InterContinental New York Barclay Hotel, just blocks from the Chrysler Building, during a gathering of western leaders supporting Ukraine.“Thank you, thank you, thank you.Welcome to…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and US President Joe Biden (Photo: Agencies) Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze was reportedly disinvited from a reception hosted by US President Joe Biden during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday. Kobakhidze was scheduled to address the UNGA on Thursday and had originally been invited to the event.Kobakhidze’s…
New Delhi: Sanjana Sanghi has been appointed as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) India Youth Champion. Embracing her responsibility with full sincerity, Sanjana attended the UN Summit of the Future Action Days in New York on Saturday. The theme of Day 1 was “#YouthLead for the Future: We believe in the promise of a…
The UN said that the attack violated international law and could constitute a war crime. United Nations: The United Nations on Friday denounced the detonation of hand-held communication devices used by Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon this week, saying the attack violated international law and could constitute a war crime. “International humanitarian law prohibits the use…
GENEVA (Reuters) – Israel is still imposing “unlawful” restrictions on humanitarian relief for Gaza, the U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday, despite assertions from Israel and others that restrictions have eased. Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip triggered by Hamas’ cross-border attacks on Oct. 7 has turned much of the Gaza strip into a…
ROME: Forty-five migrants are missing and feared dead after their boat sank in the central Mediterranean on Wednesday as they tried to reach Europe from Tunisia, the United Nations migration agency said, citing accounts from survivors. In a separate shipwreck, Italy’s coast guard said on Wednesday it had found the bodies of nine people and…
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland said on Friday that Israel’s ambassador had apologised after an Israeli air strike killed a Polish aid worker in Gaza this week. Damian Sobol, a volunteer from southeastern Poland, was among seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen who were killed in the airstrike in central Gaza…
JERUSALEM: Israel will allow “temporary” aid deliveries via its border with the northern Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced Friday, hours after a warning from US President Joe Biden.“Israel will allow the temporary delivery of humanitarian aid through Ashdod and the Erez checkpoint,” the statement from the prime minister’s office said, referring to…
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan on Thursday condemned China as “shameless” after Beijing’s deputy ambassador to the United Nations thanked the world for its concern about a strong earthquake on the island. China claims democratically-governed Taiwan as its own territory and also claims the right to speak for it on the international stage, to the fury…
