Posts tagged united nations
CNN Opinion: February 2, 2024

Is UNRWA past its ‘sell by’ date? I explore some of the options after the main UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees gets accused of being too close to Hamas

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CTV News Network: January 29, 2024

On CTV, I explain to anchor Marcia MacMillan about the halted funding to the main UN agency responsible for displaced Palestinians after allegations some members were linked to the Oct. 7 attack.

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BBC World: September 17, 2023

The annual UN General Assembly has kicked off in New York. Yet many key world leaders are skipping this key event on the global diplomatic calendar. Live from NYC, I discuss with presenter Helena Humphrey what their absences mean. And whether the UN remains an effective body.

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CNN Opinion: July 26, 2023

My first-person account of life under daily Russian attacks in Odesa. What’s changed in Ukraine’s jewel on the Black Sea and what needs to be done to protect a crucial part of the global food supply chain

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CNN Tonight: February 24, 2023

On the one year mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, I spoke to CNN Tonight’s Alisyn Camerota about the war in Ukraine, the White House refusal to provide fighter jets to Ukraine and the role of China.

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CNN Opinion: Odesa used to be known for two things -- the port and raucous hedonism

Nothing prepared me for what I have witnessed in Odesa. Eerily quiet streets, closed roads, tank traps and military checkpoints, deserted beaches, near-empty restaurants and bars. Last year, more than 3 million tourists visited the city. This year you're more likely to find war correspondents, aid workers and diplomats in its seaside hotels.

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CNN Newsroom (Interview with Anderson Cooper): April 28, 2022

Forcing political & cultural change in occupied lands in Ukraine is a tactic Russia has been implementing since 2014. These brutal tactics shouldn’t come as a surprise to the West, I tell CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Straight out of the Kremlin’s playbook…

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CNN Opinion: Is China the new leader on the world health stage?

The World Health Assembly (WHA) -- the biggest event on the global health agenda -- held on Monday and Tuesday this week, can be easily summed up: The Trump administration threatened to take the UN agency off life support as it fights a global pandemic -- and Chinese President Xi Jinping threw it a new life line.

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