United Nations
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Why is the UN running out of money?
Speed Read Secretary-General warns member states to pay up or face urgent cuts
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Why has the US quit the UN human rights council?
Speed Read Ambassador calls body ‘a cesspool of political bias’
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Why did UN not act over ‘sex-for-food’ charity scandal?
Speed Read Unpublished report implicates 40 aid organisations whose workers traded food, oil and access to education for sex
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Water shortages ‘likely to affect five billion people by 2050’
Speed Read UN warns of threat of civil unrest, mass migration and wars over water
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Syrian women ‘forced to trade sex for aid’
Speed Read Local men delivering aid for the UN and international charities responsible for abuse, report finds
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Donald Trump’s Jerusalem policy rejected by UN
Speed Read 128 member states voted for anti-US resolution despite threats of cuts to their aid
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UN pulls out of Malawi over ‘vampire scare’
Speed Read At least five dead following mob violence amid claims of ‘blood sucking’
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‘Significant evidence’ UN boss’s plane was shot down
Speed Read Former secretary general Dag Hammarskjold’s 1961 death has remained a mystery
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Dow-DuPont merger may scupper Bhopal disaster compensation, fears UN official
Speed Read Corporate tie-up could further complicate questions of liability over gas leak that killed 22,000 people
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African counter-terrorism ‘is creating extremists’
Speed Read The UN says a heavy-handed approach by governments is a primary factor pushing people into violent groups
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War crimes expert quits UN Syria inquiry
Speed Read Carla del Ponte says she cannot stay on a commission 'that does absolutely nothing'
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UN: Yemen is facing total collapse under world's watch
Speed Read Top humanitarian says suffering of Yemenis is result of inaction by global powers
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Investigation into deaths of UN experts in DR Congo
Speed Read Bodies of American Michael Sharp and Swedish national Zaida Catalan found in shallow grave
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US and UK join boycott of UN talks to ban nuclear weapons
Speed Read US ambassador says world is too unsafe to outlaw nuclear arms
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