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Shashi Tharoor

Arts, Culture & Media

He is the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information at the United Nations. And he’s also a novelist and Bollywood expert. Shashi Tharoor explains the phenomenon of Indian film stars becoming politicians — and talks frankly about his current candidacy to become Secretary General, replacing Kofi Annan.

In Praise of Good Men

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Confronting the new geopolitics of ‘net-states’

Global Politics
U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a session on reforming the United Nations at U.N. Headquarters in New York, U.S., September 18, 2017.

President Trump attends his first UN General Assembly this week. Here’s what to expect.

Global Politics
Iran rocket launch

US, Europeans push UN to react to Iran’s ‘threatening’ rocket launch

Conflict
United Nations peacekeepers meet women and children on their path during a patrol near Bentiu, northern South Sudan, Feb. 11, 2017.

President Trump, do you think cutting UN funding by 50 percent will make America safer?

Conflict

Trump has promised to “make America safe again.” Does he think deep cuts to US funding for the United Nations’ humanitarian and peacekeeping missions will achieve that goal?

Draft executive orders proposed a 40% cut in funding to the United Nations.

What a cut to its UN funding does to US leverage in the world

Global Politics

What could funding cuts mean for the US at the United Nations? A former ambassador explains.

A construction site in the Israeli settlement of Har Homa, known to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim, in the West Bank, on Dec. 22.

Netanyahu: Obama failed to protect Israel against UN ‘gang-up’ and ‘colluded behind the scenes’

Global Politics

The Israeli government is scrambling to contain the fallout from the first UN Security Council resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel over its settlements in Palestinian territory, after the US refused to block the resolution as it has traditionally done.

Isreali settlements west bank

UN Security Council postpones vote on Israeli settlements

Conflict

The vote could still happen as early as Friday.

Police use pepper spray against protesters trying to cross a stream near an oil pipeline construction site near Standing Rock Indian Reservation, north of Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S. November 2, 2016.

The United Nations heads to North Dakota to investigate possible human rights abuses

Conflict

Police have made mass arrests and used pepper spray, riot gear and armored vehicles to stop the protests. Now, the United Nations is looking into possible human rights abuses.