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May 4, 2016

UN paid Russian air charters hundreds of millions while Putin invaded Ukraine

In the 14 months since Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea and sent proxy fighters to invade eastern Ukraine, Russian companies have won more than $212 million in United Nations contracts to ferry troops, supplies and equipment -- on peacekeeping missions.

May 2, 2016

Key US senator ratchets up urgency on UN sex abuse scandal

Senator Bob Corker, head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is wading聽 into the highly charged debate about United Nations peacekeepers and sexual abuse with fast-track 聽proposals to push back against a 鈥渃ulture of impunity鈥� that the U.N.鈥檚 own experts have said still permeates the far-flung peacekeeper operations.

May 2, 2016

China dissident's wife rejects invite to State Department

Relatives of Chinese dissidents were set to meet Wednesday with the No. 2 U.S. diplomat as the Obama administration sought to demonstrate it won't gloss over human rights during this week's state visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping.聽 聽

May 2, 2016

White House: Obama wants to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in 2016

The White House says President Barack Obama has told advisers he wants to let 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. in the coming budget year.

May 2, 2016

Malaysia gets better grade on human trafficking, but senators suspect political influence

Senators angered by the decision to upgrade Malaysia in the State Department's human trafficking report threatened a subpoena on Thursday unless they receive all communications related to the annual U.S. ranking of countries' efforts to combat modern-day slavery.

May 2, 2016

Iran launches trial for US journalist on 鈥榓bsurd鈥� charges, renewing nuke talk concerns

The closed trial for a Washington Post reporter held in Iran on widely challenged espionage charges began Tuesday, drawing condemnation from American journalists and raising new questions about the regime's reliability as a partner in ongoing nuclear talks with the Obama administration.

May 2, 2016

US accuses Syria of new chemical weapons use

Three U.S. diplomats stepped up pressure against the Syrian government on Friday by accusing it of continuing to use chemical arms against its opponents in the country's four-year civil war.

May 2, 2016

US senators urge Saudi Arabia to halt 鈥榖arbaric鈥� flogging of blogger

A high-powered group of U.S. senators is demanding that Saudi Arabia cancel the "barbaric punishment" of a blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes for criticizing the country's clerics, saying the floggings are particularly troubling in the wake of terror attacks driven by "religious intolerance."

April 28, 2016

US to declassify military, intelligence records on Argentina 'Dirty War'

President Barack Obama will move to declassify U.S. military and intelligence records related to Argentina's "Dirty War," the White House said Thursday, aiming to bring closure to questions of U.S. involvement in a notorious chapter in Argentina's history.

April 28, 2016

Kerry tells lawmakers Syria cease-fire is no slam dunk

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told lawmakers on Tuesday he isn鈥檛 certain the proposed ceasefire in Syria will work but said it is the only option on the table if a political settlement in the war-torn country is the goal.