The United States unveiled another round of sanctions targeting 10 individuals and 27 entities tied to Iran’s financial network, spotlighting the crucial financial role it believes Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates play to help Tehran avoid Washington’s efforts. Aimed at Iranian nationals and a mainland Chinese national as well as Hong Kong and…
Hong Kong made a groundbreaking move on Friday when it became the headquarters for a new intergovernmental mediation body but the unit’s real tests will be in the types of substantive cases it handles and whether more countries will join the convention, experts have said. While the China-led International Organisation for Mediation launched on Friday…
Hong Kong leader John Lee Ka-chiu said the body’s status would be on par with the UN’s International Court of Justice. The Chinese government has signed a convention establishing an international mediation organisation located in Hong Kong, with Beijing hoping it will rival the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as the world’s leading conflict resolution…
The peaceful settlement of international disputes is a fundamental principle of international law and relations. Both the UN Charter (Article 33) and the Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Cooperation among States adopted alongside in 1970 set out mediation as one of the means to settle international disputes. In the 2012…
President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “we’re going to get along great with China,” and said that he hopes the U.S. and China can reach a new trade agreement. President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, “we’re going to get along great with China,” and said that he hopes the…
United Nations: China savaged US trade practices as “bullying” and “blackmail” Wednesday in a fiery United Nations speech, accusations rejected by Washington, which leveled its own criticism at rival Beijing’s policies. “Unilateralism is on the rise, and bullying practices run rampant… blatantly challenging the international order underpinned by international law (and) threatening world peace and…
London Sudan Conference (AP) LONDON: The UK led international calls Tuesday for a swift end to the devastating war in Sudan, hosting a gathering of world officials with fresh pledges of humanitarian aid as the conflict which has cost thousands of lives entered its third year.The war erupted on April 15, 2023 in a bitter…
The U.N. secretary general, António Guterres, on Tuesday sharply criticized Israel’s renewed blockade of aid to Gaza as a violation of its obligations under international law and said it had opened “the floodgates of horror.” “Gaza is a killing field and civilians are in an endless death loop,” Mr. Guterres said in prepared remarks to…
Dozens of people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo after torrential rains flooded the capital, Kinshasa, in the last few days, and destroyed hundreds of homes. The Ndjili River running through the megacity of 17 million people, one of the largest on the continent, burst its banks and submerged major roads, including Lumumba…
By Michelle Nichols UN chief rejects new Israeli plan to control Gaza aid UNITED NATIONS, – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday rejected a new Israeli proposal to control aid deliveries in Gaza, saying it risks “further controlling and callously limiting aid down to the last calorie and grain of flour.” “Let me be…