World Governments Hash Out Positions on New Taliban Government and Evacuation Crisis
PICTURED: Taliban fighters take pictures with their weapons in the vacant presidential office in Kabul. PC: Taliban (disputed), retrieved…
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Iran President Tries to Hand Moderates Ammunition for June Election Amid Vienna Nuclear Deal Talks
PICTURED: The meeting of the JCPOA resumes in the Grand Hotel Wien, Vienna, April 6, 2021. Photo credit: Reuters.…
United Nations Appeals for Removal of Yemen Government From Trump’s Terror Designations
PICTURED: Yemeni children holding a funeral ceremony for Yemeni children that were killed in airstrikes. Photo credit The Guardian.…
UN Treaty Makes Nuclear Weapons Illegal While Nuclear Powers and Victims Baulk
NEW YORK CITY, U.S. October 25th 2020. A treaty that bans the use, manufacturing, sale, and maintenance of nuclear…
As the World Pushes to End the Nuclear Age, Major Nuclear Powers Say No
UNITED NATIONS, New York City, U.S.A. October 22nd, 2020. The United States is issuing letters to nations telling them…
Prosecutors of the Syrian War Just Blocked UN Sec. Council Testimony of Chemical Weapons Cover-up in Syria
A former director of the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Jose Bustani, who had been invited…
Island Extermination: An Untold Story of Conservation Success
Story at a glance… While many of the UN’s 2020 Aichi Conservation Targets were missed, controlling invasive species was…
U.S. Attempts to Utilize a Clause in the Iranian Nuclear Deal They Withdrew From 2 Years Ago
NEW YORK CITY, U.S. September 2018. PICTURED: Sec. of State Mike Pompeo attends a meeting in the United Nations…
Proving their Pre-Eminence in Sustainability and Green Economics, Pakistan Meets UN Climate Goals a Decade Before the Deadline
PICTURED: The entrance of Baroghil National Park, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Photo credit: Abdul Wasiq. CC 3.0. A full…
The Bipartisan Foreign Policy Consensus in the U.S. Continually Calls for Intervention
Over the last 12 months, there have been several large calls for renewed or continued interventionist foreign policy across…
Iran Sanctions Have Likely Failed as Tehran Celebrates Satellite Deployment
Dasht-e Kavir, Iran. April 22, 2020. Iranian military satellite Nour-1 is seen before launch from the Qassed launcher Photo…
2020 U.S. Goals for the Middle-East are About Confronting Russia, not Making Peace
WASHINGTON, December 30th, 2019. Ending a war, troop withdrawals, de-escalating tensions, none of these were among the goals stated…
“If” Becomes the Theme as the UN Climate Change Panel in Madrid Concludes with Mixed Results
PICTURED: Chair of the IPCC, Mr. Hoesung Lee, speaks at the COP 2016 in Marrakech. Photo credit UNClimbatechange. CC…
Secret Documents Show That Lofty Ideals And International Authority Can’t Save Uighurs
Washington, July 2009. PICTURED: American Uighurs rally outside the White House in an anti-China protest following the Urumqi riots…
Afghanistan Strike Numbers For September Make This Backwards Conflict Seem Like WW2
Afghanistan, September 28th, 2019. 18 days after President Trump’s administration and the Taliban nearly agreed to end the longest…
At The United Nations GA Meeting, Saudi Arabia Bears A Legendary Amount Of False Witness
PICTURED: President Trump speaks in the UN general assembly auditorium; the 74th such assembly. New York City, USA. Thursday…
Senate Urges EU To Join US Maximum Pressure Campaign In Venezuela
August 8th 2019. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has written Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the Union for Foreign…
Venezuela To Share Cuba’s Fate As Sanctions Turn To Embargo
Washington, August 6th, 2019. President Trump has signed an executive order placing the once sanction-gripped South American country of…
UN Resolves That US Sanctions Are A Human Rights Violation, But Needs To Take Action On Their Criminality
Geneva, Switzerland, July 15th, 2019. The 41st session of the United Nations Council on Human Rights adopts a resolution…
How To Curb Rising World Temperatures Without Getting Rid Of Fossil Fuels
In April, World at Large reported on an ambitious plan to combat rising world temperatures that earned researchers at…