Benny Avni

June 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

U.S. Ambassador asks Germany: Stop Iranian Airline from use of Airspace

The new US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, requested the German government to block Iran’s Mahan Air from flying within German airspace and deny it landing rights in the country bec...

August 20, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Is Obama Serious About Isolating Iran?

Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, delivered a speech on Friday — the close of the holy month of Ramadan and the celebration of international...

April 4, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Who Leaked Israeli Iran Plan?

Is the United States leaking information in order to discourage an Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities? That’s what some experts are saying in the wake of a...

May 14, 2010 | Claudia Rosett Pajamas Media |

All You Need to Know About the UN: 155 Votes for Libya

All you really need to know about the United Nations is that today, in the 192-member General Assembly, 155 member states – yes, 155 – voted in favor of giving Libya — yes, Liby...

May 24, 2007 | Claudia Rosett The New York Sun |

U.N.’s Reading List for N. Korea

Not only has the United Nations been caught funneling cash to the rogue regime of North Korea's Kim Jong Il, but it's now emerging that the U.N. Development Program was ordering up book...

December 19, 2006 | The New York Sun |

Mystery Surfaces Over Apartment of Kofi Annan

As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment on Roosevelt Island, subsidized by New York taxpayers, which is still...

November 15, 2006 | The New York Sun |

The Courtier to Annan

Not so long ago, Kofi Annan was up to his ears in the Oil for Food scandal, and his legacy as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations was on its way down the drain. He was ducking que...

April 3, 2006 | TCS Daily

Iraq and Darfur: Common Roots

Since mid-2004, when the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Western Sudan burst into the spotlight, journalistic explanations of the unfolding catastrophe have been riddled with inaccura...

November 17, 2005 | |

The Mercedes Monologues

Dodge ball at the United Nations.

August 14, 2005 | New York Sun |

U.N. Secretary-General’s Brother Kobina Annan May Have Played a Role in Oil-for-Food Scandal

To the cast of characters caught up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, investigators have reportedly added another name, that of the secretary-general's brother, Kobina Annan. That m...