President Ortega, is part of a resurgent anti-Yankee Latin axis — Presidents Chavez of Venezuela, Morales of Bolivia, Castro of Cuba, and at times Kirchner of Argentina — that is allied with Iran, Russia, and sometimes China.

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The United Nations may never be truly relevant, but if UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gets his way, it might at least become somewhat less corrupt.

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A bill to ban styrofoam was introduced in July by NY State Senator Liz Krueger and is being carried in the NY State Assembly by Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh. NY would be the first state to ban styrofoam/polystyrene.

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The Governors Island Preservation and Education Corp. - a city-state entity - should again revisit an idea that was first suggested nearly 60 years ago: Move the United Nations onto the island.

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U.N. officials said yesterday that they will not publicly release a financial disclosure form filed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan last month -- 10 months after he ordered all senior U.N. officials to file the forms...

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...Sukehiro Hasegawa, the top UN official in East Timor, has acknowledged for the first time that the UN system failed to bring anyone to justice for crimes that included sex abuse of children and bestiality.

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With its tens of thousands of employees, the UN is far behind the times in terms of workers' rights and whistleblower protections.

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Recent years have brought a cascade of scandals at the United Nations, of which the wholesale corruption of the Oil-for-Food relief program in Iraq has been only the most visible.

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