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US Slashes United Nations' Budget By $285 Million Following "Stunning" Jerusalem Rebuke
of Israel capital 'null and void'...Several Latin American and African nations abstain from vote after America threatened to cut aid programmes
UN Elects Largest Oppressor of Women, Saudi Arabia, to Woman's Rights Commission -- Seriously
Most of slain were women and children, officials say.
Destruction Worse Than Anywhere Else in Iraq
Says Nations Are Undermining Their Own Ceasefire Push
Iran will be allowed to use its own inspectors to investigate a site it has been accused of using to develop nuclear arms, operating under a secret agreement with the U.N. agency that normally carries out such work, according to a document seen by Th
Germany Looks to Restore Trading Ties With Iran
An inquiry by a commission of the U.N. Human Rights Council into last summer's Gaza conflict and an Israeli report issued last week on the same topic offer vastly divergent interpretations on the use of overwhelming Israeli firepower against milita
Bid to end Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories by 2017 garners eight votes, one short of total needed to pass.
UN Observers Saw Israeli Troops Transfer 'Boxes' to Rebels.
UN Officials Feign Anger at Iran After Giving in to US Pressure
American influence in culture, science and education around the world took a high-profile blow Friday when the U.S. automatically lost voting rights at UNESCO by missing a deadline to repay its debt to the world’s cultural agency.
Saudi Arabia, in an unprecedented show of anger at the failure of the international community to end the war in Syria and act on other Middle East issues, said it would not take up its seat on the United Nations Security Council.
UN Envoy Issues Personal Statement Calling Attack a 'War Crime'
Investigators conclude all Israeli settlement activity in West Bank is unlawful and must cease "immediately".
The motivation behind Israel's policies 'is to drive the local populations away from their lands,' said one UN judge.
The UN Security Council has called for “rapid deployment” of international forces in Mali to combat Islamist militants in the north of the country. It comes as insurgents have seized the key city of Konna as they move south.
In the middle of the night at a U.N. conference in Dubai, the presiding chairman of the International Telecommunication Union conference surveyed the assembled countries to see whether there was interest in having greater involvement in the U.N. gove
A UN agency is trying to calm fears that the internet could be damaged by a conference it is hosting.
General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on Israel to join the NPT and allow IAEA inspectors
A prominent political analyst says that the United States uses its veto power in the United Nations Security Council to protect Israel, Press TV reports. During an interview with Press TV, Professor at the Notre Dame University, Eugene Dabbous
Former Algerian foreign minister Lakhdar Brahimi is expected to replace Kofi Annan as the new UN and Arab League envoy to Syria
On August 3 the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution written by Saudi Arabia condemning both the government of Syria for the preponderance if not all the violence in the country
The UN General Assembly has voted in favor of a non-binding resolution on Syria pushed by several Arab states.
A UN investigator has called on Washington to provide justification for the increasingly widespread use of military drones to carry out targeted killings.
The United Nations said Saturday that it was suspending its observer mission in Syria because of the escalating violence, the most severe blow yet to months of effort by the United Nations to negotiate a peace plan and prevent Syria’s descent into ci
The UN Security Council has issued a statement condemning "in the strongest possible terms" the massacre of civilians in the Syrian village of Houla, during which more than 100 people are reported to have been killed.
The chief of the UN nuclear agency says he has reached a deal with Iran over probing suspected work on nuclear weapons, and adds that the agreement will be "signed quite soon."
