http://www.mail.com/in-en/organizations/3382-united-nations-security-council.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.29/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/in-en/organizations/3382-united-nations-security-council.html http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2154820-north-korea-changes-tack-tells-us-lets-talk.html PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — After months of threatening to wage a nuclear war, North Korea did an about-face Sunday and issued a surprise proposal to the United States, its No. 1 enemy: Let's talk. But the invitation from North Korea's National Defense Commission, the powerful governing body led by leader Kim Jong Un, comes with caveats: No precondition... Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:02:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2154820-north-korea-changes-tack-tells-us-lets-talk.html 2013-06-17T19:02:02Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2148000-yugoslav-rwanda-courts-wont-meet-un-deadline.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The presidents of the U.N. tribunals prosecuting alleged war criminals from the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and key figures in the 1994 Rwanda genocide said Wednesday they will not meet the Security Council deadline to complete their work by the end of 2014. Judge Theodor Meron, president of the International Criminal Tribunal... Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:12:46 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2148000-yugoslav-rwanda-courts-wont-meet-un-deadline.html 2013-06-13T00:12:46Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2146084-un-chief-syria-spillover-threatens-golan-truce.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that spillover from Syria's civil war threatens a 40-year-old cease-fire between Syria and Israel in the disputed Golan Heights and recommended bolstering the vulnerable U.N. peacekeeping force there by more than 300 troops. Ban's recommendation, made in a report to the Security Council on We... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 19:26:43 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2146084-un-chief-syria-spillover-threatens-golan-truce.html 2013-06-12T19:26:43Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2147298-iran-nuke-policy-unchangeable-matter-who-wins.html TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Just hours after Iran's presidential candidates bickered over nuclear policies during a televised debate, the country's foreign minister stepped in with a comment of his own: Nothing will change regardless of the winner. It's a political fact of life in Iran, where the president is squarely on the world stage but holds little power to ... Wed, 12 Jun 2013 18:14:11 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2147298-iran-nuke-policy-unchangeable-matter-who-wins.html 2013-06-12T18:14:11Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2138496-car-bomb-kills-7-people-central-syrian-city.html BEIRUT (AP) — A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden car Saturday in Syria's central city of Homs, tearing through an area largely populated by the regime's Alawite sect and killing seven people, a state-owned TV station reported. Meanwhile, government troops took control of a key village as the regime presses its offensive to clear a path between Damascus and the M... Sat, 08 Jun 2013 19:17:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2138496-car-bomb-kills-7-people-central-syrian-city.html 2013-06-08T19:17:39Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2136760-russia-offers-peacekeepers-golan-heights.html MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin offered on Friday to send Russian troops to the Golan Heights to replace the Austrians who are withdrawing from the U.N. peacekeeping force that monitors the disengagement of Israeli and Syrian forces. "Naturally, that will happen only if the regional powers show interest in our proposal and if the U.N. secretary-gen... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:59:28 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2136760-russia-offers-peacekeepers-golan-heights.html 2013-06-07T21:59:28Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2136072-hezbollah-backed-syrian-troops-press-offensive.html BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters pressed forward with their offensive in the country's opposition-held heartland on Friday, taking two small villages and entering a third near a strategic town that was captured by the government earlier this week, while the U.N. asked donor countries for $5.2 billion in humanitarian aid as it predicted the number of r... Fri, 07 Jun 2013 20:04:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2136072-hezbollah-backed-syrian-troops-press-offensive.html 2013-06-07T20:04:40Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2133768-syrian-rebel-offensive-golan-jolts-israel.html QUNEITRA, Golan Heights (AP) — Syrian rebels briefly seized control of a border crossing along the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights on Thursday, prompting the withdrawal of a major Austrian peacekeeping contingent and heightening fears in Israel that it could soon be dragged into the neighboring country's civil war. From the Israeli side of the Golan, Syr... Thu, 06 Jun 2013 23:25:56 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2133768-syrian-rebel-offensive-golan-jolts-israel.html 2013-06-06T23:25:56Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2125588-wounded-civilians-trapped-syrias-qusair.html BEIRUT (AP) — Cut off for three weeks by a regime siege, doctors in the Syrian town of Qusair are treating hundreds of wounded in battle-damaged homes and underground shop storerooms, short on antibiotics and anesthesia and using unsterilized cloth for bandages and hand pumps instead of oxygen canisters. Amid relentless shelling, there are some 1,000 woun... Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:41:18 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2125588-wounded-civilians-trapped-syrias-qusair.html 2013-06-03T19:41:18Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2125532-un-nuke-chief-urges-iran-cooperation-atom-probe.html VIENNA (AP) — Talks between the U.N. atomic agency and Iran "have been going around in circles," the organization's head said Monday, acknowledging that attempts to probe alleged secret nuclear weapons work by Tehran have failed and suggesting Iran was to blame. Yukiya Amano's unusually blunt language in comments to delegates at the opening session of a 3... Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:15:30 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2125532-un-nuke-chief-urges-iran-cooperation-atom-probe.html 2013-06-03T16:15:30Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2121530-international-court-libya-up-gadhafi-son.html AMSTERDAM (AP) — International Criminal Court judges on Friday rejected Libya's request to annul the international arrest warrant for the son of the late Moammar Gadhafi and let the country's new government try him in Tripoli. In essence, the ICC found the Libyan government is not capable of holding a fair trial for Seif al-Islam Gadhafi by itself, and ju... Fri, 31 May 2013 22:13:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/europe/2121530-international-court-libya-up-gadhafi-son.html 2013-05-31T22:13:40Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2118164-international-court-rejects-au-race-hunt-claims.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The International Criminal Court hit back Thursday at African Union claims that its investigations have degenerated into a "race hunt" amid debate about where Kenya's recently elected president and his deputy, who both are due to go on trial at the Hague-based tribunal, should face justice. The court's prosecution office issu... Thu, 30 May 2013 10:19:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2118164-international-court-rejects-au-race-hunt-claims.html 2013-05-30T10:19:12Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2112194-un-rights-body-agrees-to-urgent-debate-syria.html GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.'s top human rights body agreed Monday to hold another urgent session on the civil war in Syria, hoping to prod accountability for the killing of thousands of civilians. The U.S., Turkey and Qatar persuaded the 47-member Human Rights Council to hold a debate Wednesday looking into the violence in the Syrian town of Qusair, near Leban... Mon, 27 May 2013 20:08:32 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2112194-un-rights-body-agrees-to-urgent-debate-syria.html 2013-05-27T20:08:32Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2112918-african-leaders-urge-icc-to-transfer-charges.html ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders on Monday asked the International Criminal Court to transfer charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta to the Kenyan legal system. The African Union summit, which ended Monday in Addis Ababa, agreed to press the United Nations to move the charges against Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, to Kenya. Af... Mon, 27 May 2013 19:14:33 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2112918-african-leaders-urge-icc-to-transfer-charges.html 2013-05-27T19:14:33Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2108364-syria-targeted-israeli-jeep-going-to-rebel-village.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria said it targeted an Israeli vehicle that crossed a ceasefire line into its territory earlier this week because it was heading toward a village with a large rebel presence. In a letter to the U.N. Security Council circulated Friday, Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said his country exercised its righ... Fri, 24 May 2013 17:55:09 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2108364-syria-targeted-israeli-jeep-going-to-rebel-village.html 2013-05-24T17:55:09Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2106484-un-china-offers-peacekeepers-mali.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China has offered to contribute troops to the new U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali, where Islamist jihadists controlled the country's north until French-led troops launched an offensive in January to oust them, a U.N. official said Thursday. Andre-Michel Essoungou, a spokesman for the U.N. peacekeeping department, told The Associate... Thu, 23 May 2013 22:58:39 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2106484-un-china-offers-peacekeepers-mali.html 2013-05-23T22:58:39Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2104842-un-chief-visits-goma-congo.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon stressed Thursday that security must go hand-in-hand with development in Congo's troubled eastern city of Goma, arriving just hours after a rebel group halted fighting to allow the visit to proceed. The U.N. chief traveled to Congo, and specifically to Goma, for the first time since the Secur... Thu, 23 May 2013 16:49:22 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2104842-un-chief-visits-goma-congo.html 2013-05-23T16:49:22Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2104140-report-crisis-stoking-anti-migrant-bias-europe.html NEW YORK (AP) — A top human rights group warned Wednesday that the plight of refugees and migrants fleeing wars and economic hardship is worsening in Europe as financial turmoil and austerity stokes bias against foreigners. In its annual global report on human rights, Amnesty International pointed to Greece's tough new immigration laws and Italy's deporta... Wed, 22 May 2013 23:44:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2104140-report-crisis-stoking-anti-migrant-bias-europe.html 2013-05-22T23:44:06Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2102486-congo-fighting-persists-un-chief-arrives.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — M23 rebels fired two rockets into the eastern Congo city of Goma, killing one person and wounding four, officials said, in an apparent spillover from three days of fighting raging north of the city. The attack underscores the heightening tension in Congo and comes as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Congo's capital far to t... Wed, 22 May 2013 21:58:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2102486-congo-fighting-persists-un-chief-arrives.html 2013-05-22T21:58:06Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2097534-m23-rebels-clash-with-soldiers-eastern-congo.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — Clashes erupted Monday in eastern Congo between government troops and a rebel group believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda, escalating to the use of mortars and rocket launchers in the first fighting between the groups since the M23 rebels overtook and later retreated from the provincial capital of Goma last year. Fears that the re... Mon, 20 May 2013 16:43:25 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2097534-m23-rebels-clash-with-soldiers-eastern-congo.html 2013-05-20T16:43:25Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2091918-un-3-peacekeepers-abducted-israel-syria.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday. Herve Ladsous told a group of reporters that the unarmed observers were held by the Syrian men for about five hours and released unharmed Wednesday morning. It was the ... Fri, 17 May 2013 00:37:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2091918-un-3-peacekeepers-abducted-israel-syria.html 2013-05-17T00:37:06Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2086564-un-general-assembly-approves-syria-resolution.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly approved an Arab-backed resolution Wednesday calling for a political transition in Syria, but more than 70 countries refused to vote "yes" because of its support for the main opposition group and fears the resolution could torpedo a new U.S.-Russia effort to end the escalating conflict. The United States co-... Wed, 15 May 2013 23:13:21 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2086564-un-general-assembly-approves-syria-resolution.html 2013-05-15T23:13:21Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2078946-correction-congo-tanzanian-troops-story.html GOMA, Congo (AP) — In a story May 11 about the arrival of Tanzanian troops in eastern Congo, The Associated Press erroneously cited United Nations mission spokesman Col. Felix Basse. The information should have been attributed to Alexandre Essome, press information officer for the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the eastern province of North Kivu. A correcte... Tue, 14 May 2013 10:53:12 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2078946-correction-congo-tanzanian-troops-story.html 2013-05-14T10:53:12Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083110-us-envoy-wont-attend-arms-talks-led-iran.html UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States said Monday it will refuse to send its ambassador to any meeting of the U.N. forum where nuclear disarmament is negotiated when it's chaired by Iran because countries under U.N. sanctions shouldn't be allowed to hold such positions. Erin Pelton, spokesperson for the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, said in a stat... Tue, 14 May 2013 01:14:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2083110-us-envoy-wont-attend-arms-talks-led-iran.html 2013-05-14T01:14:07Z http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2081664-deadly-bomb-strikes-civilian-area-east-libya.html TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A deadly car bomb exploded Monday near a hospital in a busy area packed with civilians in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, destroying part of the facility, officials said. Officials gave conflicting casualty figures, with death tolls ranging from three to 10 in the chaotic aftermath of the attack. Benghazi, which was the birthpla... Mon, 13 May 2013 23:45:31 GMT http://www.mail.com/in-en/news/world/2081664-deadly-bomb-strikes-civilian-area-east-libya.html 2013-05-13T23:45:31Z