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NEW YORK (AP) — After being pummeled by two tropical storms that submerged basements, cracked home foundations and destroyed belongings, Northeastern U.S. residents still in the throes of recovery are being hit with another unexpected blow: Thousands of families are now swamped with financial losses because they didn’t have flood insurance.

NEW YORK, Sep 22 (APP): A proposed SAARC meeting was canceled after Pakistan’s objections that the annual gathering in New York would be “inappropriate” due to India’s ongoing atrocities in Kashmir as well as the question of legal representation of Afghanistan, according to diplomatic sources here.

The SAARC Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting, scheduled for September 25, was proposed by Nepal reportedly at India’s behest.

NEW YORK, Sept 22 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Federal authorities in New York have arrested a man who they say threatened to kill the president of the Dominican Republic, who is in the city for the UN General Assembly.

Enrique Figueroa, 47, began threatening President Luis Abinader on social networks last month, according to a criminal complaint filed by New York prosecutors.

Figueroa posted on the internet “threats to kidnap, kill and injure” Abinader, the complaint said.

NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Individuals with Asian or Chinese names are punished twice as severely as those with Western names in economic espionage charges in the United States, showed a U.S. study released on Tuesday.

The study, titled "Racial Disparities in Economic Espionage Act Prosecutions (EEA): A Window into the New Red Scare," also said that one in three Asian Americans accused of espionage may have been falsely accused.

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 (Xinhua) -- The newly-announced deal between the United States, Britain and Australia on nuclear-powered submarines has massive flaws, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Monday.

Speaking at a webinar organized by the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, Rudd said the Australian government's unilateral repeal of the submarine contract with France and switch to nuclear-powered submarines took place like "a bolt from the blue."

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday sued his estranged niece and The New York Times over a 2018 story about his family’s wealth and tax practices that was partly based on confidential documents she provided to the newspaper’s reporters.

Trump’s lawsuit, filed in state court in New York, accuses Mary Trump of breaching a settlement agreement by disclosing tax records she received in a dispute over family patriarch Fred Trump’s estate.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Racism, the climate crisis and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the United Nations on Wednesday, a day after the U.N. chief issued a grim warning that “we are on the edge of an abyss.”

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, more than two dozen world leaders appeared in person at the U.N. General Assembly on the opening day of their annual high-level meeting. The atmosphere was somber, angry and dire.

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden planned to use his first address before the U.N. General Assembly to reassure other nations of American leadership on the global stage and call on allies to move quickly and cooperatively to address the festering issues of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and human rights abuses.

Biden, who arrived in New York on Monday evening to meet with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ahead of Tuesday’s address, offered a full-throated endorsement of the body’s relevance and ambition at a difficult moment in history.

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 20 (APP): United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Dr Yousef Al-Othaimeen, discussed several issues of mutual concern, including Afghanistan, the Middle East Process, and the situation in Myanmar during a meeting on Sunday, according to a UN press release.

The press release gave no further details.

The UN chief, it said, thanked Dr. Al-Othaimeen for his personal contribution to enhancing UN-OIC cooperation during his tenure.

(AP) --- Pressure keeps building on increasingly anxious world leaders to ratchet up efforts to fight climate change. There’s more of it coming this week in one of the highest-profile forums of all — the United Nations.

For the second time in four days, this time out of U.N. headquarters in New York, leaders will hear pleas to make deeper cuts of emissions of heat-trapping gases and give poorer countries more money to develop cleaner energy and adapt to the worsening impacts of climate change.