@nytimesworld 2 years ago The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday failed to adopt two rival resolutions to extend cross-border aid deliveries into northern Syria from Turkey, effectively cutting off a vital lifeline to about 4.1 million people in opposition-held territories. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Lawyers representing Dow Jones, the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, asked a United Nations human-rights advocate to press Russia to release Evan Gershkovich on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago A senior White House official on Friday said that the founder of the Wagner mercenary company, Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, had engineered the departure of a United Nations peacekeeping force from Mali to help further his company’s interests there. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Migration to affluent countries is at record highs, and some nations short of workers are overcoming political opposition to open their borders even wider, hoping to fill jobs and ease inflation on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The United Nations accused Russia of blocking humanitarian aid to people affected by the destruction a dam, while Kyiv’s forces claimed control of another village along the southern front line on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Managers at Ukraine’s biggest nuclear power plant are taking steps to avert potentially catastrophic consequences after the loss of the facility’s primary water source, the head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said on Friday. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago United Nations judges have declared a defendant in the Rwandan genocide unfit to continue standing trial because he has dementia and said they would create a procedure to hear evidence without the possibility of conviction. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago India and China have ejected each other’s journalists, virtually wiping out mutual media access and deepening a rift between the two most populous nations on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Hundreds of people from three small Pacific island nations have served in the U.S. military. But when they move back home, they give up a vital benefit: subsidized health care. nyti.ms
@BBCWorld 2 years ago G7 Summit: Africa seeks new role as nations eye its resources bbc.in
@WSJ 2 years ago President Biden will seek to maintain unity among allies in supporting Ukraine and countering China’s economic clout at a summit of the Group of Seven industrialized nations on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The G-7 countries are expected to issue a joint statement rejecting use of economic retaliation against nations over policy disputes and other disagreements on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Since Russia’s invasion, around 40,000 troops from member nations were put on standby under NATO command. In its new plans, NATO aims to have up to 300,000 troops ready to move to its eastern flank within 30 days, though officials call that “aspirational.” nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Lawyers representing the publisher of The Wall Street Journal asked a United Nations human rights advocate to press Russia to release jailed Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 2 years ago Russia executed 77 civilians detained by its forces since Ukraine invasion, United Nations says bbc.in
@WSJ 2 years ago The leaders of wealthy nations want private investors to send a flood of capital to poorer countries to lift them out of poverty and bankroll the response to climate change. Instead, those investor funds are drying up. on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Efforts to establish regular top-level meetings between the United States and China come at a pivotal point in the fraught relationship between the two nations. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to Switzerland on Thursday for weapons to repel Russia’s invasion, a plea that came as a debates rages in Bern about whether to relax the country’s strict laws to allow other nations to give Swiss-made arms to Kyiv. nyti.ms
@guardian 2 years ago Climate crisis: rich nations undermining work to help poor countries, research suggests theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago A United Nations operation to avert a catastrophic oil spill in the Red Sea by salvaging a decaying supertanker off the coast of Yemen is moving forward after years of delays. nyti.ms
@guardian 2 years ago United Nations official and others in Armenia hacked by NSO Group spyware theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the South Pacific on Friday, triggering tsunami warnings for Vanuatu and other Pacific island nations. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Kishida decided that this year’s summit of leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations would take place in his family’s hometown, to push for progress on nuclear disarmament on.wsj.com
@BBCWorld 2 years ago Which European nations are winning the heat pump race? bbc.in
@WSJ 2 years ago The United Nations atomic agency said Russia had prevented its inspectors from accessing an occupied nuclear plant in Ukraine to investigate Kyiv’s claims that Moscow is planning to sabotage the plant on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Can Russia tame the Wagner group in Africa without destroying it? Experts say the mercenary group is so deeply enmeshed in the Central African Republic and several other nations that it can’t be easily replaced. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago After decades of neglect, the U.S. government is one step closer to eliminating longstanding obstacles to free health care for veterans from three Pacific Island nations. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago The U.S. is becoming an outlier among many Western nations in the way its national medical institutions treat children distressed over gender identity on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The U.S. is becoming an outlier among many Western nations in the way its national medical institutions treat children distressed over gender identity on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago More than 250 aircraft and 10,000 personnel began a two-week military exercise on Monday involving NATO nations and Japan, in what host nation Germany bills as the largest deployment of aircraft in the alliance’s history. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rebuked China after Beijing declined a U.S. request for the nations’ defense chiefs to meet on the sidelines of an annual security forum on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Hundreds of people from three small Pacific island nations have served in the U.S. military. But when they move back home, they give up a vital benefit: subsidized health care. nyti.ms
@TheNewEuropean 2 years ago Economic hardship and war have not pushed Europe’s nations apart, but closer together theneweuropean.co.uk
@nytimesworld 2 years ago A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck the South Pacific on Friday, triggering tsunami warnings for a number of Pacific island nations. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago The United Nations officially commemorated for the first time the mass displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians when the state of Israel was created 75 years ago. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago President Vladimir Putin ordered the restoration of direct flights from Russia to the former Soviet republic of Georgia starting May 15 and abolished visa requirements for Georgian nationals, in the latest sign of rapprochement between the two nations. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine went on a diplomatic offensive this week, visiting several NATO nations on Thursday and Friday to drum up support for his country’s bid to join the alliance ahead of its key meeting next week. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago The Assembly of First Nations, long a prominent public voice for Indigenous peoples in Canada, voted to remove RoseAnne Archibald as its national chief following a harassment investigation. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago “I saw people eating plants that are usually only used to feed animals,” said Khaled al-Ali, a resident of the Rukban camp for displaced Syrians since 2014. “Everything arrives to the camp via smuggling with no aid groups nor United Nations,” he added. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago The U.S. is becoming an outlier among many Western nations in the way its national medical institutions treat children distressed over gender identity on.wsj.com
@guardian 2 years ago Croatia v Spain: Nations League final – live theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago United Nations judges have declared a defendant in the Rwandan genocide unfit to continue standing trial because he has dementia and said they would create a procedure to hear evidence without the possibility of conviction. nyti.ms
@WSJ 2 years ago India and China have ejected each other’s journalists, virtually wiping out mutual media access and deepening a rift between the two most populous nations on.wsj.com
@WSJ 2 years ago The U.S. and 13 other Asia-Pacific nations agreed to expand supply-chain cooperation, delivering an early win in a new U.S.-led initiative to strengthen economic ties with the region’s friendly nations amid rising tensions with China on.wsj.com
@guardian 2 years ago High stakes for Victorian treaty umpire as negotiations between First Nations and government loom theguardian.com
@guardian 2 years ago Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations by Simon Schama review – scientists to the rescue theguardian.com
@nytimesworld 2 years ago President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine met with Germany’s leaders in Berlin on Sunday morning, a day after Germany announced its largest package of military aid yet for Kyiv and as the two nations seek to turn the page on months of rocky relations. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld 2 years ago Representatives from Russia, Ukraine, Turkey and the United Nations will meet in Istanbul on Wednesday to begin two days of talks aimed at salvaging the Black Sea grain deal that Moscow has threatened to pull out of. nyti.ms