By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Australia, the United States and 13 other countries criticized China at the United Nations on Tuesday over alleged human rights abuses in Xinjiang and Tibet, prompting China to denounce them for ignoring the “living hell” in the Gaza Strip. Clashes over China’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslims…
Russia’s top diplomat warned Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power,” delivering a U.N. General Assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere — including inside the United Nations itself. Three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin aired a shift in his country’s…
By Humeyra Pamuk, Simon Lewis and David Brunnstrom NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken underscored strong U.S. concerns about China’s support for Russia’s defense industrial base in talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday and said Beijing’s talk of peace in Ukraine “doesn’t add up.” In a meeting with Wang…
NEW YORK — The U.N. General Assembly adopted a “Pact for the Future” to meet the challenges of the 21st century. Now comes the hard part: uniting the world’s divided nations to move quickly to implement its 56 actions. As Czech President Petr Pavel put it Monday at the summit meeting surrounding the pact: “Our…