May 4, 2016 US sanctions UN agency under whistle-blower law in unprecedented move The U.S. State Department has taken a symbolic step to withhold money from a United Nations organization, in order to show concern about the ethical standards and whistle-blower protection at the scandal-tarred World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO.
May 4, 2016 Patent scandal: UN asked to investigate top official EXCLUSIVE: Investigators with the United Nations Secretariat in New York have been asked to look into longstanding charges that Francis Gurry, director general of the World Intellectual Property Organization, ordered break-ins of the offices of his own staffers in 2008 to seek DNA evidence that they wrote anonymous letters against him.
May 4, 2016 UN agency signs pact with Russia as West deplores new Ukraine aggression Even as the West is considering tighter economic sanctions on Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation for its sharply increased military aggression in Ukraine, the United Nations’ flagship anti-poverty agency has signed a new development partnership with Moscow “focused on cooperation at the regional and global level,” according to the U.N. agency’s announcement of the deal.
May 3, 2016 Things to know: Refugee processing and background checks for Syrian refugees head to the US Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have fled that country to escape the ongoing civil war there.
May 2, 2016 Sources: Review affirms Clinton server emails were 'top secret,' despite department challenge An intelligence community review has re-affirmed that two classified emails were indeed “top secret” when they hit Hillary Clinton’s unsecured personal server despite a challenge to that designation by the State Department, according to two sources familiar with the review.
May 2, 2016 Obama administration moves to restore $$ to UN agency accused of anti-Israel bias The Obama administration is waging a quiet effort on Capitol Hill to restore U.S. taxpayer funding for a United Nations organization that has long been accused of having an anti-Israel bias, according to State Department funding requests obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
May 2, 2016 State Dept. cannot find emails of Clinton IT staffer The State Department cannot find emails sent by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s IT staffer Bryan Pagliano who helped setup Clinton’s private email server, a State Department official told ӣƵ on Friday.
May 2, 2016 Hillary Clinton intervened for mining firm while secretary of state after son-in-law's request As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials after one of the firm's investors asked Chelsea Clinton's husband for help setting up such contacts, according to the most recently released Clinton emails.
May 2, 2016 State Department 'troubled' by Moscow's move against Soros groups The U.S. State Department says it is “troubled” by Russia’s decision to ban two of liberal billionaire George Soros' pro-democracy charities and label the organizations a threat to national security.
May 2, 2016 Clinton emails show Benghazi response, back-patting after contentious hearing As the number of classified Hillary Clinton emails grew to nearly 1,000, they also reveal how freely she and her staff shared information on the Benghazi attacks.