Ex-UN chief Ban will not run for SoKor presidency
Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, once considered the front-runner to be next president of South Korea, ruled out running for ...
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New UN sec-gen faces many big problems
On New Year’s Day, former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres assumed office as secretary-general of the United Nations. He succeeded ...
Ex-Portuguese PM takes reins of UN
Antonio Guterres took the reins of the United Nations on New Year’s Day, promising to be a “bridge-builder’’ but facing ...
Russian envoy assassinated
A Turkish policeman crying ‘’Aleppo’’ and ‘’Allahu Akbar’’ shot dead Russia’s ambassador to Turkey in Ankara on Monday, prompting a ...
UN inquiry will help clear up issues
The proposed United Nations inquiry on possible human rights violations in the Philippines has suffered a setback after UN Repporteur ...
Obama denounces Aleppo ‘horror’
Responsibility for atrocities committed in Aleppo lies with Syria and its Russian and Iranian backers, US President Barack Obama said ...
UN drops Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman’s battle for equality for women and girls at the United Nations has come to a untimely end.
Concerns raised over Leni resignation
A GREAT deal of concern has been expressed over the sudden resignation of Vice President Leni Robredo from President Duterte’s ...
Duterte says God told him to stop cursing
President Duterte, who once called the pope a “son of a bitch” and told US President Barack Obama to “go ...
Bad and better
SO bad words work? In his own words coming out of his mouth, President Duterte told an audience of 1,500 ...
PH invites UN team
The Philippine government has formally invited the United Nations (UN) to probe the drug-related killings in the country but asked ...
Aleppo reels from air strikes
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he was ‘‘appalled by the chilling military escalation’’ in Syria’s battleground city of ...
‘Don’t meddle in PH war vs drugs’
Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay told the United Nations Saturday that President Duterte had an “unprecedented” mandate and the world ...
Duterte to allow UN, EU probe of killings
Having had enough of the pontification of the West over his bloody drug crackdown, President Duterte is planning to invite ...
‘Drug war to continue’
The government’s bloody war on illegal drugs will continue no matter how many congressional inquiries will be conducted to discredit ...
A very difficult task for the President
IT must have been a very difficult mission for President Duterte – his seeing Indonesian President Joko Widodo in behalf ...