United Nations

United Nations

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  Somalia leader: Foreigners aided attack on court

  Somalia's prime minister said Monday that several experienced foreign fighters took part in the most serious Islamic extremist attack on Mogadishu in ... 

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  AP Interview: UN puts spotlight on 'stunted' kids

  The United Nations Children's Fund says more than a quarter of children under the age of 5 worldwide are permanently "stunted" from malnutrition, ... 

• Cambodia, Thailand seek temple ruling

  Cambodia asked the United Nations' highest court Monday to clarify a 50-year-old ruling on ownership of a 1,000-year-old temple near its border with ... 

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  Activists say Syrian airstrike kills 20 people

  A Syrian government airstrike on a town in the country's northwest killed at least 20 people Saturday, shattering store fronts, setting cars ablaze ... 

• Congo: 12 army officers to be charged with rapes

  A dozen senior officers in the Congolese army have been arrested for responsibility for mass rapes committed by several army units in eastern Congo ... 

• Bosnian activist says UN meeting was biased

  Bosnian activist Munira Subasic lost 22 close family members in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of thousands of Muslims by Bosnian Serbs, yet she was ... 

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  G-8 foreign ministers slam NKorea rhetoric

  Foreign ministers from the G-8 nations on Thursday condemned North Korea's aggressive rhetoric and the development of its nuclear missile programs, ... 

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  Jolie joins G-8 to urge end to sexual violence

  Angelina Jolie brought her celebrity wattage to London on Thursday to back an urgent cause: fighting sexual violence in military conflicts. 

• US, Canada, Jordan, boycott UN meeting on justice

  Barred from speaking at a U.N. meeting on international criminal justice, Bosnian activist Munira Subasic, who lost 22 close family members in the ... 

• South Sudan urged to stop use of death penalty

  South Sudan was one of 111 countries to vote in favor of a United Nations resolution last year calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, but ... 

• UN: Central African Republic is very volatile

  The political and security situation in the Central African Republic is highly volatile, the humanitarian situation is "extremely dire," looting and ... 

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  UN chief: Korea tensions may spiral uncontrollably

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned Tuesday that even a slight miscalculation on the Korean peninsula could spiral into an "uncontrollable ... 

• 5 UN troops, 7 others killed in South Sudan

  Armed rebels that South Sudan believes are backed by Sudan opened fire on a United Nations convoy on Tuesday, killing five U.N. peacekeepers from ... 

• UN chief urges Syria to OK expanded chemical probe

  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is urging the Syrian government to accept an expanded U.N. probe into alleged chemical weapons use, saying he has ... 

• UN says food distribution centers reopen in Gaza

  The United Nations says it has reopened food distribution centers in Gaza that closed last week following a violent protest at a U.N. compound. U.N. 

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  UN: Chemical investigators ready to go to Syria

  U.N. experts are ready to move into Syria immediately to investigate reported chemical weapons attacks but President Bashar Assad's government still ... 

• Lawmaker: Iran could quit nuclear treaty

  Iran will keep the option of withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty on the table and will seriously consider it if the West intensifies ... 

• UN chief: NKorea nuclear test would be provocative

  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged North Korea not to carry out a new nuclear test, saying it would be a "provocative" act amid ... 

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  EU: No deal reached at nuclear talks with Iran

  Iran and six world powers failed to reach agreement Saturday on how to reduce fears that Tehran might use its nuclear technology to make weapons, ... 

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  NKorea warns embassies it can't guarantee safety

  North Korea has warned diplomats in Pyongyang that it can't guarantee the safety of embassies in the event of a conflict and suggested they may want ... 

• UN rights chief presses US to shut Guantanamo

  The United Nations' top human rights official pressed the U.S. on Friday to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, strongly criticizing the indefinite ...