Edith m. Lederer, Author at Valley News

People walk along a plaza at United Nations Headquarters Saturday, Sept. 21, 2019. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Leaders gather as tensions run high across globe

by Edith m. Lederer Associated PressSeptember 22, 2019

UNITED NATIONS — The planet is getting hotter, and tackling that climate peril will grab the spotlight as world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the United Nations this week facing an undeniable backdrop: rising tensions from the Persian…

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at the U.N. General Assembly, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2017, at United Nations headquarters. President Donald Trump's threat to cut off U.S. funding to countries that oppose his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital has raised the stakes in Thursday's U.N. vote and sparked criticism of his tactics, with one Muslim group calling it bullying or blackmail. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

UN Rebukes Trump on Jerusalem

by Edith m. Lederer Associated PressDecember 22, 2017

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Iranian at UN: Trump ‘Ignorant’

by Jennifer Peltz Associated Press, and Edith m. Lederer Associated PressSeptember 20, 2017

FILE - In this July 22, 2016, file photo, factory workers process seafood in Rason, a special economic zone in North Korea near the Russian and Chinese borders. A proposed new U.N. sanctions resolution would significantly increase economic pressure on North Korea to return to negotiations on its nuclear and missile programs by banning mineral and seafood exports worth over $1 billion — a third of its total exports last year, a Security Council diplomat said Friday, Aug. 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge, File)

U.N. May Ban $1 Billion North Korea Exports

by Edith m. Lederer Associated PressAugust 5, 2017

British Ambassador to the United Nations Matthew Rycroft, left, and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley vote during a Security Council meeting on a new sanctions resolution that would increase economic pressure on North Korea to return to negotiations on its missile program, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

U.N. Imposes Tough Sanctions on North Korea

by Edith m. Lederer Associated PressAugust 5, 2017

FILE -- This Thursday, April. 24, 2014 file photo, provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), shows U.N relief workers with blue helmets and vests next to residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk, right, waiting to receive food aid, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. A new report by Physicians for Human Rights accuses the Syrian government of "slow-motion slaughter" of unknown numbers of Syrians trapped in besieged and hard-to-reach areas by willfully denying them food and health care, which it calls a war crime. (AP Photo/UNRWA, File )

Syria Warns of ‘Slaughter’ of Refugees

by Edith m. Lederer Associated PressMarch 14, 2017

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a graveyard in east Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016. Syrian rebels said Tuesday that they reached a cease-fire deal with Moscow to evacuate civilians and fighters from eastern Aleppo, after the U.N. and opposition activists reported possible mass killings by government forces closing in on the rebels' last enclave. (SANA via AP)

Syrian Rebels Surrender Aleppo to Assad

by Zeina Karam Associated Press, and Edith m. Lederer Associated PressDecember 13, 2016

Report: Chemical Weapons Used

by Edith m. Lederer Associated PressOctober 21, 2016

U.N. Secretary-General-designate, Antonio Guterres, right, listens during a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly concerning his appointment, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Peace Is Priority For Next UN Chief

by Edith m. Lederer Associated PressOctober 13, 2016

UN to Focus on Refugee Crisis, Syria

by Edith m. Lederer Associated PressSeptember 17, 2016