The Arab League has agreed to present to the UN Security Council a draft resolution that will set a timeframe for the creation of a Palestinian state.
"We can no longer wait. We can no longer live with the status quo. Israel wants us to be an authority without authority," Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said. "I understand the consequences of the UNSC move, but the most dangerous situation we can be in is remain in the status quo."
Oil prices sunk to fresh four-year lows on Thursday, with New York
crude plunging below $70 a barrel, after OPEC decided against cutting
output despite a huge oversupply in world markets.
At about 16:10
GMT, West Texas Intermediate for January delivery struck $69.11 per
barrel -- last seen on May 25, 2010. Brent North Sea crude for January
hit $72.74, a level last witnessed on July 7, 2010.
Asked whether
the oil OPEC had decided not to reduce production, Saudi Arabian Oil
Minister Ali al-Naimi told reporters in Vienna: “That is right.”
Iran's media were deeply split Tuesday on the merits of extending
nuclear talks with the West, with conservative newspapers criticizing
the move as reformist outlets said progress had been made.
The Bidens visited the Church of St. George, a Greek-Orthodox cathedral in Istanbul, before heading to the historic Suleymaniye Mosque, the largest in the city.
P 5 + 1 negotiators /five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany/ have not made any considerable proposals that would require coordination with Teheran, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told reporters on Friday.
The United Nations on Tuesday adopted a resolution condemning North
Korean rights abuses and called for the Security Council to consider
referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court (ICC) for
alleged crimes against humanity.
Hundreds of Israelis demonstrated in west Jerusalem on Tuesday to
demand the government's resignation in the wake of a deadly attack on a
Jewish synagogue in which four Israelis were killed.
Israel will never agree to limit its construction activity in
Occupied East Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on
Sunday. “One thing should be clear: we will never accept the
definition of building in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem as
settlement activity,” he said at a news conference with his German
counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
DHARAMSHALA: President Barack Obama raised the Tibet issue during a joint press conference in Beijing on Wednesday with Chinese president Xi Jinping, the Daily Mail reported.
‘We are not in favor of independence,’ President Obama said at the press conference.
‘But we did encourage Chinese authorities to take steps to preserve the unique cultural, religious and linguistic identity of the Tibetan people,’ he said.
Pope Francis has called on G20 leaders not to forget the poor, saying to do so would be "regrettable" as the heads of the world's most powerful economies prepare to meet in Australia.
The Group of 20 leaders are expected to sign off in Brisbane this weekend on a pledge to boost the level of their combined economic output by at least two percent above the currently projected level in the next five years, creating millions of jobs.
In a letter to Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who holds the G20's rotating presidency, the pope said world powers "must not forget that many lives are at stake behind these political and technical discussions".
UN, 10 November 2014 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the formation of an internal inquiry aimed at reviewing “certain incidents” reported at United Nations facilities in the Gaza Strip during the recent summer conflict there between Palestinian factions and the State of Israel.
During his visit last month to the war-ravaged enclave, the Secretary-General called for a thorough investigation into incidents where UN facilities – including schools run by the UN agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) – sustained hits resulting in the deaths of numerous innocent civilians and UN staff members.
A l'occasion du 25e anniversaire
de la chute du mur de Berlin, le dernier dirigeant d'URSS, Mikhaïl
Gorbatchev (83 ans) a vivement critiqué l'Occident qui, selon lui,
avaient fait de nombreuses promesses après la disparition des régimes
communistes en 1989 mais ne les a, au final, pas respectées.
"Le
monde est au bord d'une nouvelle Guerre froide, certains disent qu'elle a
même déjà commencé", a-t-il déclaré à Berlin, faisant référence au
conflit en cours dans l'est de l'Ukraine. Samedi, il a accusé
l'Occident, et plus particulièrement les Etats-Unis, de ne pas avoir
tenu leurs promesses depuis la fin de la Guerre froide.
China and Japan have reached an agreement on maintaining peace in the disputed chain of islands in the East China Sea after three years of war mongering. The agreement was reached in Beijing between China's State Councilor Yang Jiechi and the visiting National Security Advisor of Japan, Shotaro Yachi.
The new move may also pave the way for the first ever meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Cooperation summit next week.
The Republicans achieved sweeping midterm election wins on Tuesday,
seizing control of the US Senate in a blow to President Barack Obama
that will limit his political influence and curb his legislative agenda
in his last two years in office, said analysts.
Republicans won
in places where Democrats were favored, like a Senate race in North
Carolina, pulled out victories where the going was tough, like a Senate
battle in Kansas, and swept a number of governors' races in states where
Democrats were favored, like Obama's home state of Illinois.
Pro-Russian separatists in the breakaway Ukrainian regions of Donetsk
and Luhansk went to the polls to choose leaders for their
self-proclaimed republics, bringing the rebellion in the country's
industrialized east to a climax in a move likely to exacerbate tensions
between Russia and the West over the Ukraine crisis.
Alexander
Zakharchenko, 38, a mining electrician-turned-rebel leader, on Monday
won the election for leadership of the "Donetsk People's Republic
(DPR)," the separatists' political and military stronghold in eastern
Ukraine.
