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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Likely to Lift Ban on Arms Sales to Vietnam
Despite objections from some lawmakers and human rights advocates, the White House is considering selling U.S. weapons to Hanoi — for the first time since the war.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 At the United Nations, Umoja Translates as Bureaucratic Chaos
In Swahili, Umoja means "unity." But an expensive software program designed to unite the U.N.’s far-flung operations is instead hindering efforts to promote peace.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Inside Saudi Arabia’s Push to Silence Criticism of Its Brutal War in Yemen
Behind the scenes at the U.N., Riyadh and its friends are blocking resolutions and killing human rights investigations.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Egypt Extends Campaign Against Dissent to Turtle Bay
From Burundi to Syria, the lone Arab member of the U.N. Security Council is sparking concerns that it’s working to weaken international human rights norms.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russia Blocks U.N. Report Linking Alleged Sudanese War Criminal to Gold Profiteering
A leader of the militia that terrorized Darfur is pocketing $54 million a year from gold sales. Why won’t Moscow release a confidential report documenting his abuses?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Inside the U.S. Navy’s Iran Fiasco
From mechanical problems to communications breakdowns, new details on how 10 U.S. sailors blundered into Iranian waters and almost sparked an international crisis.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Syrian MSF Hospital Kept Location Secret to Avoid Being Bombed
It was destroyed anyway.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Russian Accused of Silencing Activists Is Considered for Top U.N. Post Dealing with NGOs
The U.S. and its allies move to block a Russian diplomat from a senior U.N. job overseeing the organization’s relations with human rights champions and other advocacy groups.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Plan Calls for Intel Team in Damascus
The U.N.’s envoy to Syria wants to set up an independent information-gathering unit to monitor a cease-fire says a confidential document.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Confidential Memo, U.N. Says It Can’t Enforce a Syrian Peace Deal
Staffan de Mistura highlights the limits of the world’s power to effectively monitor any Syrian peace deals.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Mounts Last-Ditch Effort to Save Syria Talks as Turks Threaten Boycott
Peace negotiations face new hurdle as Syrian opposition groups — and their powerful backers — battle over who should attend the talks.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.N. Envoy Signals That Riyadh Is Obstructing Syria Peace Talks
Saudi Arabia is sidelining the diplomat charged with ending the brutal Syrian civil war — and complicating the push toward a deal.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Exclusive: The U.N. Knew for Months That Madaya Was Starving
So why did it wait until January to provide humanitarian aid to suffering Syrians?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Inside Kerry’s Leadership Changes for 2016
Kerry plans to name his chief of staff as head of Policy Planning, a move that seeks to revitalize Foggy Bottom’s moribund ideas shop.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me
In an exclusive interview, Chuck Hagel said the Obama administration micromanaged the Pentagon, stabbed him in the back on the way out — and still has no strategy for fixing Syria.
