“United Nations” on The Daily Caller

Monday, two leading Republicans condemned the UNESCO vote to admit Palestine, essentially recognizes it as a state. (more)

The United Nations estimates that the 7 billionth baby in the world will be born on Monday. The international agency has chosen Manila-born Danica May Camacho as the symbolic milestone baby, as first reported by the UK Guardian. (more)

Frank La Rue, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression who made summer headlines when he proclaimed Internet access as a basic human right, conducted his research and delivered his conclusions with the support of organizations funded by liberal financier George Soros, The Daily Caller has learned. (more)

Many folks are put-off by New York City’s constant meddling in the food choices of its citizens, whether it is scolding them about salt or grossing them out by graphically comparing sports drinks to liquid fat. But hey, we can live somewhere else and eat in peace, right? (more)

Writing with concern about the United Nation’s plan to construct a new tower on a local New York City play ground, 21 Republican senators and 50 Republican representatives issued a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Thursday, urging her to oppose the project. (more)

Angelina Jolie, a current United Nations goodwill ambassador to the High Commissioner for Refugees, has accepted an expanded position of Special Representative on the Afghan refugee situation, the UN announced Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland. (more)

Once again, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has come and gone. In what has become an annual ritual, Ahmadinejad recently flew to New York City, stayed at a luxurious Manhattan hotel, dined with U.S. professors and students, questioned both 9/11 and the Holocaust in a vile anti-American rant to the U.N., and conducted several “interviews” with American journalists in which he never strayed from his usual script. (more)

The Obama administration is criticizing the United Nations for high personnel costs and is calling for a “line-by-line” review of the international body’s budget. (more)

In between racking up parking tickets, fighting over who can call themselves “Macedonians” and walking out on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (again), the diplomats who gathered in New York City last week for a meeting of the United Nation’s General Assembly found time to address a serious issue: What you can (and can’t) eat. (more)

A story about a New York City playground that has been largely relegated to local newspapers could quickly become an issue of national importance. (more)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Palestinian leader took his people’s quest for independence to the heart of world diplomacy on Friday, hoping to galvanize their flagging statehood campaign by seeking U.N. recognition of Palestine and sidestepping negotiations that have foundered for nearly two decades under the weight of inflexibility, violence and failure of will. (more)

Around the world, many intelligent people full of self-regard — and many who look to them for leadership — have talked themselves into believing that the Palestinians are doomed without a state to call their own. (more)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — With Friday’s Palestinian bid for statehood now official, the focus turns to the U.N. Security Council, and an array of unlikely kingmakers. (more)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Defying U.S. and Israeli opposition, Palestinians were determined to ask the United Nations on Friday to accept them as a member state, sidestepping nearly two decades of troubled negotiations in the hope this dramatic move on the world stage would reenergize their quest for an independent homeland. (more)

The diplomatic offensive playing out this week at the United Nations is designed to create the appearance that Israel and the U.S. are the only obstacles to a Palestinian state living at peace with Israel. But it’s the Palestinians who don’t want a Palestinian state, and they are counting on a U.S. veto in the U.N. Security Council to prevent it should it come to a vote. The last thing Palestinian leaders want is responsibility for establishing a civil society and preventing attacks from their territory on a neighboring state. (more)

United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) has temporarily re-located its headquarters to the Warwick Hotel in New York City, the same hotel that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is staying at this week. (more)

Today the Palestinians will poke President Obama in the eye with his Nobel Peace Prize. And he has no one to blame but himself. (more)

The Palestinian leadership is under mounting pressure to abandon or modify its bid to win full UN membership, as a top Israeli diplomat admitted his country’s battle to prevent recognition of a Palestinian state was lost and warned of “violence and bloodshed” ahead. (more)

For almost two hundred years, the Monroe Doctrine has been a cornerstone of American foreign policy. First proclaimed in December 1823, the message from President James Monroe to the imperialist ruling houses of Europe was bold and unmistakable: The Western Hemisphere, including the Latin American colonies that were throwing off European rule, was not open to further colonization, and the U.S. would view any attempts by Europeans to extend their existing colonies into independent American states or to interfere with those states’ attempts to achieve independence as hostile acts against us, the United States of America. (more)

A coalition of 28 human rights groups, led by the Geneva-based United Nations watchdog group U.N. Watch, is urging the world’s countries to protest North Korea’s chairmanship of the U.N.’s Conference on Disarmament. (more)