MONTREAL/ SEOUL, Feb 18- The United States has blocked efforts by a U.N. agency to improve civil aviation in North Korea at a time when Pyongyang is trying to reopen part of its airspace to foreign flights, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The U.S. move is part of a negotiating tactic to maintain sanctions pressure on North Korea, one of the sources...
Weeks before a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, a top U.S. military commander on Tuesday echoed an intelligence assessment that North Korea is unlikely to give up all its nuclear weapons.
GENEVA, Feb 12- Forty countries including Japan and the European Union have agreed on a draft U.N. regulation for advanced emergency braking systems for new cars and light commercial vehicles from early 2020, a U.N. agency said on Tuesday. Japan and the EU have said the new AEBS system will become mandatory, representing some 4 million and 15 million new cars...
GENEVA, Feb 12- Forty countries including Japan and the European Union have agreed on a draft U.N. regulation for advanced emergency braking systems for new cars and light commercial vehicles from early 2020, a U.N. agency said on Tuesday. The new regulation, compulsory for countries that adopt it at a June session, will impose strict and harmonised requirements...
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC AND 14 ARMED GROUPS REACH PEACE DEAL AT KHARTOUM TALKS- UNITED NATIONS.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley is currently quoting $200,000 and the use of a private jet for domestic speaking engagements, according to seven people with knowledge of the arrangement. Engagements outside the United States could cost considerably more, these people said.
That "global multilateral trading system" was killed the minute the trade surplus countries took it as a license for free-riding on the rest of the world., Michael Ivanovitch writes.
WASHINGTON, Jan 25- Former U.S. diplomat Elliott Abrams will lead U.S. efforts on Venezuela, where Washington has recognized an opposition leader as the legitimate president, U.S. He said Abrams would accompany him to the United Nations on Saturday for a Security Council meeting on Venezuela where the U.S. will press other countries to support opposition leader...
WASHINGTON, Jan 25- Former U.S. diplomat Elliott Abrams will lead U.S. efforts on Venezuela, where Washington has recognized an opposition leader as the legitimate president of the South American country, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday. He said Abrams would accompany him to the United Nations on Saturday for a Security Council meeting on...
WASHINGTON/ CARACAS, Jan 25- The United States on Friday intensified its push to drive Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power, as U.S. diplomats left the embassy in Caracas and Russia vowed to back its socialist South American ally. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday will urge members of the United Nations Security Council to recognize...
China said on Wednesday it was "not worried in the slightest" by mounting international concern over the death sentence handed to a Canadian for drug smuggling.
Iran's bid to launch a satellite has failed, Telecoms Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi said on Tuesday, after it ignored U.S. warnings to avoid such activity.
The UN has asked Australia to consider refugee resettlement for an 18-year-old Saudi woman who fled to Thailand saying she feared her family would kill her.
Russia and China on Thursday abstained from an annual United Nations Security Council vote to extend approval for cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries in Syria because Moscow said the four-year-old authorization was "divorced from reality."
*PIMCO says only 12 pct of companies set targets for U.N. goals. *Just six percent report against those goals, fund says. LONDON, Dec 12- A United Nations plan to boost global development is at risk of failing to reach its goals because of poor data and target-setting by companies, the world's biggest bond investor said.
"I got the job done by being truthful, but also by letting him be unpredictable and not showing our cards," the departing U.N. ambassador tells NBC News.
KATOWICE, Poland, Dec 10- Talks billed as the most important U.N. conference since the Paris 2015 deal on climate change began the crucial final week in the Polish city of Katowice, capital of the country's Silesian coal mining district. Saudi Arabia issued a statement saying it recognised the efforts of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
Trump says he will name State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert to succeed Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Energy-related carbon emissions in North America, Europe and developed Asia-Pacific economies are rising as they consume more oil and natural gas, the International Energy Agency reports.
LONDON, Dec 3- Swiss-headquartered MSC expects to pay over $2 billion a year in fuel costs due to tougher global marine fuel rules and will introduce a bunker charge next year to recoup expenses, the world's number two container line said. UN agency the International Maritime Organization will prohibit ships from using fuels with sulfur content above 0.5...
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