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- iso alpha2: US
- isoalpha :: USA
- iso numeric:: 840
- fips code: US
- Capital: Washington
- Area: 9629091
- Population: 327167434
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United Nations panel monitoring compliance with international Convention Against Torture treaty presses American delegation in Geneva, expressing skepticism about American law enforcement and national security practices; during two-day presentation United States acknowledges it tortured terrorism suspects after Sept 11 attacks, but emphasizes that government has since tightened its rules.|
Integrated Regional Information Networks will restart operations in January 2015 as independent, nonprofit media venture with promise of $25 million over 15 years from Jynwel Foundation, which is owned by family of Hong Kong-based investor Jho Low; IRIN was operated under wing of United Nations office that coordinates humanitarian aid, until UN decided midyear that it would stop financing agency on Dec 31.|
A list of resources from around the Web about the United Nations as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.|
A list of resources from around the Web about the United Nations as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.|
Integrated Regional Information Networks will restart operations in January 2015 as independent, nonprofit media venture with promise of $25 million over 15 years from Jynwel Foundation, which is owned by family of Hong Kong-based investor Jho Low; IRIN was operated under wing of United Nations office that coordinates humanitarian aid, until UN decided midyear that it would stop financing agency on Dec 31.|
Negotiators from around the world haggle over final elements of United Nations climate change agreement in Peru; agreement would, for first time, commit every nation to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions, but still falls short of what is needed to stave off dangerous and costly early impacts of global warming.|
United Nations panel monitoring compliance with international Convention Against Torture treaty presses American delegation in Geneva, expressing skepticism about American law enforcement and national security practices; during two-day presentation United States acknowledges it tortured terrorism suspects after Sept 11 attacks, but emphasizes that government has since tightened its rules.|
Obama administration is expected to unveil new interpretation of United Nations treaty ban on cruel treatment, saying it will restrict how the United States may treat prisoners in certain places abroad; interpretation marks shift from disputed Bush administration theory that the cruelty ban does not apply abroad.|
Sweden formally asks United Nations General Assembly to reopen investigation into death of United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, whose plane went down over Zambia in 1961; official inquiries into details of crash and of his death have brought no conclusive answers.|
Integrated Regional Information Networks will restart operations in January 2015 as independent, nonprofit media venture with promise of $25 million over 15 years from Jynwel Foundation, which is owned by family of Hong Kong-based investor Jho Low; IRIN was operated under wing of United Nations office that coordinates humanitarian aid, until UN decided midyear that it would stop financing agency on Dec 31.|
Analysis of United Nations' Global Status Report on Violence Prevention 2014 reveals that far more homicides are committed with firearms in the Americas than in any other part of the world, in large part due to lax gun laws.|
Editorial expresses alarm at United Nations World Food Program's announcement that it is suspending critical food program for Syrian refugees due to lack of funding; calls on richer members of international community to help make up this funding shortfall; notes that Syria is only one of growing number of crises around the globe that have created heavy demand on international relief organizations.|
Syrian Pres Bashar al-Assad says that United Nations proposal for local cease-fire in Aleppo is worth considering.|
United Nations Security Council document reveals that Libyan militant group Ansar al-Shariah of Benghazi, accused of leading 2012 attack on United States Embassy in Benghazi, had previously helped train a dozen fighters who later participated in a deadly attack on an Algerian gas plant; justifies new sanctions on group, saying it has links to Al Qaeda.|
The United Nations Security Council agreed late Monday to consider the human rights situation in North Korea next week, paving the way for discussions on whether to refer the country to the International Criminal Court.|