
Putin, charged with war crimes, takes over U.N.'s most powerful arm
Russia's status as U.N. Security Council president is bound up in a frozen-in-time power structure dating to World War II.
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Russia's status as U.N. Security Council president is bound up in a frozen-in-time power structure dating to World War II.
The addition more than doubles the length of 1,215 kilometers of borders that NATO member nations share with Russia.
Facing a raft of complications, the A.U. goal of tackling root causes of conflict for sustainable development is in doubt.
Mozambique hosted a talk on how the U.N. and regional organizations can curb terrorism and violent extremism.
The prosecutor says the charges involve deportation of 'at least hundreds of children' taken from orphanages and homes.
The U.N.'s special envoy to Syria says an effective response to the earthquake "was hampered in part" by the war.
The global demands for peace grow as humanitarian aid workers emphasize the war's devastating effect on children.
The tiny island nation made the case that more attention must be focused on the threat of rising sea levels and gaps in international law about loss of land.
Fresh snowfall, freezing temperatures and a disrupted cross-border operation added to the despair, frustration and anger.
The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan disputed the Taliban-controlled bank's portrayal of US$40 million in aid.
The border crossing allows the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide food, medicine and other basic items to the 4.1 million mainly displaced inhabitants of Syria's northwest Idlib province.
Haiti's violence has paralyzed the country, obstructed humanitarian aid, and fueled the resurgence of cholera amid a widening food crisis, U.N. officials emphasize.
As a subsidiary of the U.N. Security Council, the commission processed and paid $52.4 billion to 1.5 million claimants for losses and damage suffered as a direct result of Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait from 1990 to 1991.
Proponents said its passage is critical with 339 million people in need of aid and nearly 50 million on the verge of famine.
The committee monitors implementation of a council resolution to prevent the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Despite a steady decline in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea recently, the region suffers nearly $2 billion a year in losses.