American President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro will meet Tuesday at the United Nations. The White House announced the meeting on Sunday. Castro spoke to the UN Sustainable Development Summit on Saturday and praised the progress of the normalization of American-Cuban relations. However, he criticized the embargo, calling […]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi called for a UN resolution that would mandate international forces step in in Libya where ISIS has made significant progress. Yesterday, Egypt’s Air Force bombed ISIS forces in Libya after twenty-one Egyptian Christians were killed. Libya has been struggling in the post-Gaddafi era. While many Americans […]
New non-permanent members of the UN Security Council were elected. The five countries will serve a two-year term that expires in 2016. Venezuela, Angola, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Spain were elected. New Zealand and Spain were both elected to represent the West and their election was contentious. The other three […]
The President of Libya’s House of Representatives, Agila Saleh Essa, spoke before the United Nations General Assembly this week and he called on the member states to help the country with its struggle for democracy. The same groups that helped bring down Muammar Gaddafi have continued fighting against the new […]
