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The U.N. Security Council endorses U.S. cease-fire plan to end the war in Gaza

7:04pm June 10, 2024

by Michele Kelemen

The council voted 14-0 to support President Biden’s step-by-step plan for a cease-fire, an exchange of hostages and prisoners and an end to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.

Russia was the only country to veto the non-binding resolution voted during Friday's United Nations Security Council meeting.

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Russia vetoes UN Security Council resolution that denounces its invasion of Ukraine

9:02pm February 25, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

"You can veto this resolution but you cannot veto our voices," the U.S. ambassador to the UN told her Russian counterpart following the vote.

Police arrest a protester during a demonstration against the military coup in Mawlamyine, in Myanmar's Mon State, on Friday.

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U.N. Official: Evidence Myanmar Using Live Ammunition Against Protesters

12:18pm February 12, 2021

by Scott Neuman

A United Nations human rights investigator points to "growing reports and photographic evidence" that security forces have used live ammunition against anti-junta protesters.

A lightly wounded Syrian girl is carried by a man at a makeshift clinic following Syrian government bombardments in Douma, in the besieged Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus on Thursday.

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U.N. Security Council To Try Again For Syria Cease-Fire Resolution

6:28pm February 23, 2018

by Scott Neuman

A draft resolution calling for a 30-day humanitarian cease-fire for emergency aid deliveries and medical evacuations has so far been stalled by threat of a Russian veto.

This undated picture released by North Korea's state-run news agency Sunday shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looking at what Pyongyang claims is a hydrogen bomb.

North Korea Claims Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test

3:59pm September 03, 2017

by Elise Hu

In its sixth nuclear test, North Korea said it was "successful" in loading a hydrogen bomb onto an intercontinental ballistic missile. President Trump is set to meet with his national security team.

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Trucks carrying humanitarian aid were hit by airstrikes in Aleppo, Syria, last week. Twenty people were killed, including 12 aid workers.

Why Is No One Punished For Attacks On Aid Workers?

1:03pm September 29, 2016

by Malaka Gharib

The attack on the trucks delivering humanitarian aid in Aleppo was potentially a war crime. But it's not likely anyone will go to jail for it. Is this the new normal?