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UN elects new council members including Japan, Switzerland

  • June 09, 2022
  • 169
U.N. member nations elected five countries to join the powerful U.N. Security Council on Thursday with no suspense or drama because all were unopposed -- Ecuador, Japan, Malta, Mozambique and Switzerl...

Calls mount for Gaza-Israel cease-fire, greater US efforts

  • May 17, 2021
  • 772
U.N. Security Council diplomats and Muslim foreign ministers convened emergency weekend meetings to demand a stop to civilian bloodshed as Israeli warplanes carried out the deadliest single attacks in...

AP PHOTOS: Fear and grief grip Gaza anew amid familiar glare

  • May 16, 2021
  • 766
To the outside world, the scenes of rocket fire, bombing raids and angry protests in the Middle East this week may have looked familiar. To the people of Israel and especially the Gaza Strip, they wer...

More than 200 NGOs call for UN arms embargo on Myanmar

  • May 06, 2021
  • 1167
More than 200 global organizations urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to impose an arms embargo on Myanmar, saying the time for statements has passed and immediate action is needed to help p...

UN envoy: Myanmar faces possibility of major civil war

  • April 01, 2021
  • 1359
The U.N. special envoy for Myanmar warned Wednesday that the country faces the possibility of civil war “at an unprecedented scale” and urged the U.N. Security Council to consider “potentially s...

YouTube removes Myanmar army channels; UN to meet on crisis

  • March 05, 2021
  • 998

YouTube removed five channels run by Myanmar’s military for violating its guidelines, it announced Friday, as demonstrators defied growing violence by security forces and staged more anti-cou...

Myanmar protesters, undaunted by killings, march again

  • March 04, 2021
  • 1143

Demonstrators in Myanmar protesting last month's military coup returned to the streets Thursday, undaunted by the killing of at least 38 people the previous day by security forces.

Ne...

'Inclusion is key' for virus vaccine: UN Assembly chief

  • September 05, 2020
  • 1047

Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, the president of the U.N. General Assembly, has warned that a vaccine for COVID-19 must be made available to everyone who needs, reports AP.

If just one country is...

UN adopts 4 resolutions, voting by email because of COVID-19

  • March 31, 2020
  • 977

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted four resolutions on Monday, with its 15 members voting by email for the first time because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Members voted to keep...

N. Korea fires weapons after threatening 'momentous' action

  • March 09, 2020
  • 1057

North Korea fired three unidentified projectiles off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, two days after the North threatened to take "momentous" action to protest o...