The UN has upheld Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia. The battle for Kosovo may have been lost, writes Simon Tisdall, but this legal decision sets an important precedent for other separatist groups.
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Iran explodes over UN inspectors
More conflict between Iran and the U.N. has ensued following the ban of two nuclear inspectors from Tehran. Iran officials allege the inspectors leaked false information about experiments conducted at a research laboratory.
READ MOREHow the UN poisoned Bangladesh
How a UN and World Bank-backed scheme to bring clean drinking water to millions of Bangladeshis went horribly wrong, resulting in what the World Health Organisation has labeled “the largest mass poisoning of a population in history”.
READ MOREChina’s Copenhagen report
A Chinese think-tank report from the Copenhagen climate summit leaked to the Guardian reveals the government didn’t set out to spoil the talks, just to avoid rich nations’ “conspiracy to divide the developing world”.
READ MOREBan Ki-Moon: Help Haiti, help the world
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon tells of his experiences in Haiti in an op-ed for the Washington Post and makes his plea: helping Haiti swiftly and effectively in its hour of need will give hope to the entire world’s poor.
READ MOREDid the UN mislead us on climate change?
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has egg on its face after its long-held claim that climate change will melt most of the Himalayan glaciers by 2035 has been revealed as pure speculation published in a non-academic pop-science magazine.
READ MOREPeter Galbraith: I was not plotting against Karzai
Ousted former senior UN official Peter Galbraith says a NYT piece accusing him of plotting to oust Afghan President Hamid Karzai was false: the UN is just trying to distract people from its terrible mishandling of the country’s elections.
READ MOREThe UN plot to oust Karzai
Following revelations of wide-spread fraud in the Afghan election, fired senior UN official Peter Galbraith planned to enlist the US’s help to replace President Hamid Karzai with “a more Western-friendly figure”. Is that the real reason he was given the boot?
READ MOREUN: Tony Abbott will motivate climate sceptics
The chair of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the recent success of climate sceptic Tony Abbott will help fuel other naysayers, comparing him to George W. Bush.
READ MOREPHOTO GALLERY: Portraits of the powerful
An incredible series of world leader portraits — including audio about each subject’s photo — by Platon of The New Yorker, taken during the latest sitting of the UN General Assembly.
READ MOREUN sends Nicolas Cage to fight Somali pirates
Clearly the most qualified candidate for the roll, actor Nicolas has gone to Africa to meet with jailed Somali pirates in his capacity as a “Goodwill Ambassador on Drugs and Crime” for the UN.
READ MOREUN secretly negotiating with Iran to lift nuclear sanctions
Documents leaked to the Times reveal the United Nations has been negotiating with Iranian officials to lift the country’s nuclear sanctions, allowing it to retain most of its nuclear program, in return for co-operation with UN inspectors.
READ MOREIs the UN helping Iran launder money?
Iran may be using a UN agency, intended to facilitate financial payments between Asian countries, to route billions of dollars offshore and circumvent American sanctions, a former US Treasury official alleges.
READ MOREAn audience with Radovan Karadzic. Location: The Hague
The Hague has a long history of overseeing international law, the latest being the trial of Serbian Radovan Karadzic, accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia. Too bad he was a no show, writes Grant Doyle.
READ MOREA former UN officer: If they were white, we’d welcome them
Let’s be honest with Australia’a immigration policy, says Keane Shum. Being white and having money makes it far easier to get a visa to Australia than if you are black or brown and your life is at serious risk. People need to be aware of this.
READ MORECopenhagen. What’s it all about?
Apparently something pretty major is happening in Copenhagen in December. Some big climate change world meeting. Crikey intern Melanie Mahony clarifies what it’s all about.
READ MOREIs Iran hiding more secret nuclear sites?
In a promising step forward, Iran has pledged to let the UN in to inspect its newly disclosed nuclear facility. But if that one was kept secret for years, how many others are there we don’t know about?
READ MOREThe UN: a glorified global beauty pageant
The United Nations is nothing more than a “theatre for the absurd”, says Alex Castellanos, where “terrorists and madmen” stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the leader of the free world — and the US foots almost a quarter of the bill for the privilege.
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How Iran sanction fears awakened the sleeping
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China has only recently come back into the UN’s good books. So why doesn’t it support sanctions against Iran in light of its secret nuclear facility? What is the nature of China and Iran’s relationship?
READ MOREThe 10 most cuckoo crazy UN speeches ever
Muammar Gaddafi may be copping it for his UN tirade last week, but he’s not the first world leader to get controversial at the UN General Assembly. Like, when Castro labelled JFK a “millionaire, illiterate, and ignorant”.
READ MOREG20: present at the Ruddation
It won’t get any better than this for Rudd: he may have inherited the G20 from his predecessor, but it will now forever be linked to his name in Australian foreign policy.
READ MOREG20: decoding the leaders’ communiqué
The official G20 Leaders’ communiqué was released this morning, assessing the policies released in April to fix the world’s economy. Bernard Keane breaks it down for us mere mortals.
READ MOREMake no mistake, this is a new world order
The acceptance of the G20 as a rule-maker for the conduct of the world’s financial systems quite literally ushers in a new world economic order: a genuine democratisation that directly includes two-thirds of the world’s population and indirectly gives a voice to the rest.
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