The Trump administration has reportedly advocated for far right authoritarian Viktor Orbán, ex-prime minister of Hungary, to serve in the top role at the United Nations amid the administration’s mission to weaken the organization and its role in advancing human rights across the globe. According to The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, sources from three countries have said that the U.S.
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In a speech before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced that he is renaming artificial intelligence, or AI, directing all U.S. agencies to call it “super intelligence” and encouraging the world community to follow suit. The proposed name change comes as public concerns are mounting regarding the technology’s unregulated expansion…
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President Donald Trump made his most openly genocidal threat yet to Iran on Tuesday, threatening to “annihilate” the country and its 92 million people with “no hope of survival.” In his opening address to the UN General Assembly in New York City, Trump asserted again that he is facing a choice on Iran about whether to make a deal “that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country.”…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to arrive in New York City on Thursday for the UN General Assembly – where he is expected to defend his warmongering in Iran and Gaza in a speech during the afternoon. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, has presided over the nearly three-year-long genocide in Gaza – which has killed at least 75,000 Palestinians…
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A UN report has concluded that the United States’s boat strike campaign against supposed drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean has violated international law and “plausibly” amounts to crimes against humanity, a label reserved for the worst human rights violations in global conflicts. The report says that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that the boat strikes…
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A United Nations fact-finding mission has concluded that the U.S. committed war crimes in two attacks on Iran that killed scores of civilians, including over 120 children, on the first day of the war. In a report released Thursday, the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said that the U.S. violated international human rights laws regarding civilian harm in its attacks…
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