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North Korea Evades Sanctions With Ships That Change Names
As Washington and Seoul try to maintain a unified front against North Korea, the case of two cargo ships shows how Kim Jong Un's regime keeps finding ways to evade increasingly tough international sanctions aimed at halting its nuclear weapons program.
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Nikki Haley For President? UN Diplomats Bet Trump Envoy Has Ambitions
UN ambassadors from other nations take Haley's "obvious domestic political ambitions" in stride, said Richard Gowan, a UN expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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North Korea's Elusive UN Envoys Hard To Track Down In Manhattan
They've warned of impending nuclear war and charged the U.S. with usurping the U.N. Security Council in order to persecute their country. But apart from their occasional public jeremiads, North Korea's United Nations envoys are often as isolated as the regime they represent.
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Trump Picks Nikki Haley As UN Envoy, Offers Education Post To DeVos
Donald Trump plans to nominate South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be United Nations ambassador and has offered the job of education secretary to Betsy DeVos, an advocate for school choice and the post of housing secretary to former political rival Ben Carson.
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Russia Ousted From UN Human Rights Council in Historic Vote
Russia lost its bid to retain a seat on the UN Human Rights Council amid daily accusations that the country may be guilty of war crimes for its support of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's assault on the city of Aleppo.
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North Korea Evades Sanctions With Ships That Change Names
As Washington and Seoul try to maintain a unified front against North Korea, the case of two cargo ships shows how Kim Jong Un's regime keeps finding ways to evade increasingly tough international sanctions aimed at halting its nuclear weapons program.
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Nikki Haley For President? UN Diplomats Bet Trump Envoy Has Ambitions
UN ambassadors from other nations take Haley's "obvious domestic political ambitions" in stride, said Richard Gowan, a UN expert with the European Council on Foreign Relations.
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North Korea's Elusive UN Envoys Hard To Track Down In Manhattan
They've warned of impending nuclear war and charged the U.S. with usurping the U.N. Security Council in order to persecute their country. But apart from their occasional public jeremiads, North Korea's United Nations envoys are often as isolated as the regime they represent.
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Trump Picks Nikki Haley As UN Envoy, Offers Education Post To DeVos
Donald Trump plans to nominate South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be United Nations ambassador and has offered the job of education secretary to Betsy DeVos, an advocate for school choice and the post of housing secretary to former political rival Ben Carson.
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Russia Ousted From UN Human Rights Council in Historic Vote
Russia lost its bid to retain a seat on the UN Human Rights Council amid daily accusations that the country may be guilty of war crimes for its support of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad's assault on the city of Aleppo.
