'This is America’: US envoy scolds Cuban diplomat at UN
US envoy Mike Waltz repeatedly told Cuba’s UN team, ‘This is America’, during a heated clash at UN headquarters in New York. The confrontation erupted during a vote on the US trade embargo on Cuba. Since January, the US has also imposed a fuel blockade on the island nation.
Lana Nusseibeh has Palestine’s endorsement but faces criticism over the UAE’s human rights record and alleged funding of the RSF in Sudan An Emirati diplomat who as UAE ambassador to the UN helped secure the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza has entered the race as a late contender to succeed António Guterres as the world body’s secretary general. Lana Nusseibeh, who is of Palestinian heritage, is widely noted for her advocacy of the Palestinian cause and the two state solution and has won the endorsement of the state of Palestine.
Israel has continued to commit genocide in Gaza since last October's ceasefire, according to a report from UN-commissioned experts. Israel has rejected the findings as "misinformation".
The UN has sounded the alarm on Israeli action in the West Bank city of Hebron after hundreds of families were displaced at the weekend. Israel has ordered the military to demolish homes after soldiers were killed there.
Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure a war crime: UN. UN commission notes Russian weaponisation of cold in nearly five years of attacks on heating plants and power lines.
To summarise: the most powerful, nuclear-armed states – the US, China and Russia – are led by unscrupulous, self-dealing “strongmen”, each of whom is playing with the nationalist “Great Again” politics epitomised by Trump. Democracy is being rolled back around the world, and even bastions of liberalism such as the UK, France and Germany seem vulnerable to takeover by the Putin-friendly far right.
The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. The latest level in this spiral is the proposed appointment of Lana Nusseibeh of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the UN secretary general.