June 22, 2017 North Korea: Tillerson, Mattis still playing China card with Pyongyang One day after President Trump appeared to give up on China as an effective mediator in the West’s long-running disputes with North Korea, two of the president’s most senior cabinet officials signaled that the administration has not altogether abandoned the use of China as an intermediary.
June 20, 2017 Otto Warmbier dead: Trump condemns 'brutal' North Korea regime President Trump slammed North Korea's "brutal regime" Monday after the death of college student Otto Warmbier, who was released by the communist nation in a coma last week.
June 19, 2017 The UN helps Assad rebuild, as he continues the carnage EXCLUSIVE: As the Syria regime of Bashar al-Assad grinds out a piecemeal victory in ravaged areas of resistance, the United Nations faces a new challenge: how, and with whom, it will help the regime rebuild -- and in the process might further help to consolidate Assad’s sway.
June 15, 2017 Trump's Cuba policy would bar commerce with military-tied business, enforce travel rules President Trump will announce efforts to restrict U.S. companies from doing business with Cuban ventures controlled by that country's military and strictly enforce rules on Americans traveling to the Communist nation, according to a memo seen by 91±¬ÁÏ.
June 12, 2017 ‘Tear down this wall’: Reagan’s Berlin wall speech, 30 years later The Berlin Wall was built with the assistance of the Soviets to keep people in East Germany – where they had established a Communist dictatorship -- from escaping.
June 9, 2017 Peacekeeper battalion in Central African Republic challenges UN 'war' on sexual abuse United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who in March vowed an all-out war on the plague of sexual abuse by U.N.-sponsored peacekeepers in vulnerable, strife-torn nations, is apparently locked in a major, closed-door chapter in that campaign—a struggle he so far does not appear to have won.
May 24, 2017 Chinese activist’s US residency won't slow his human rights work While nobody would have faulted Chen for taking a much needed break after years of fighting against forced abortions under China’s one-child policy, corrupt officials and the mistreatment of the disabled, he is not one to rest on his laurels.
May 18, 2017 Trump administration sanctions Venezuela Supreme Court The Trump administration Thursday imposed sanctions on members of Venezuela's Supreme Court following a series of rulings that the U.S. says has usurped power from the nation's opposition-controlled congress and sparked a deadly wave of unrest.
April 18, 2017 Is UNICEF helping all the child victims of peacekeeper sex abuse? An investigation by the Swedish public television network SVT has reopened the issue with charges that the U.N.’s child relief agency UNICEF failed to follow up with care and support for some of the handful of children mentioned in the original investigative report of the so-called Sangaris scandal.
March 22, 2017 US declines to join letter criticizing China on human rights The United States has declined to join other countries in criticizing China over allegations of torture against human rights lawyers.