Court issues warrant for Putin over Ukrainian child abductions
The prosecutor says the charges involve deportation of 'at least hundreds of children' taken from orphanages and homes.
U.N. Security Council
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Status quo 'totally unacceptable' in quake-hit, war-ravaged Syria
The U.N.'s special envoy to Syria says an effective response to the earthquake "was hampered in part" by the war.
Lost childhoods: Ukraine's most innocent victims in Putin's war
The global demands for peace grow as humanitarian aid workers emphasize the war's devastating effect on children.
Malta elevates sea level rise on the world's peace and security agenda
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.
Groups scramble aid as Turkey-Syria earthquake toll reaches 20,000
Fresh snowfall, freezing temperatures and a disrupted cross-border operation added to the despair, frustration and anger.
U.N. political mission clarifies how it uses cash in Afghanistan
The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan disputed the Taliban-controlled bank's portrayal of US$40 million in aid.
U.N. reauthorizes Turkish aid route into Syria's rebel-held northwest
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.
U.N. leaders urge international security mission to help Haiti
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.
More than $50 billion later, U.N. to close First Gulf War commission
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.
U.N. measure offers legal protection for aid in sanctioned regimes
Proponents said its passage is critical with 339 million people in need of aid and nearly 50 million on the verge of famine.
U.N. committee against nukes, chemical and biological weapons renewed
The committee monitors implementation of a council resolution to prevent the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
U.N. urges nations to keep up prevention in Gulf of Guinea
Despite a steady decline in piracy in the Gulf of Guinea recently, the region suffers nearly $2 billion a year in losses.
U.N. heats up over Russian 'steal' in Ukraine
Russia vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution to condemn and invalidate its "full-scale unlawful invasion of Ukraine" and illegal move to annex four regions.
IAEA: Ukraine nuke plant faces 'constant threat' from Russia's war
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog called for a security zone around Ukraine's nuclear power plant.
IAEA team to inspect damaged Ukraine plant
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog dispatched a team of inspectors on an urgent mission to secure Ukraine's Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia power station.
Russia shortens Syrian lifeline of aid deliveries
Obstructed by Russia's demands, the U.N. Security Council agreed to a six-month entension for cross-border humanitarian aid deliveries to Syria.