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Haiti’s most powerful gang coalition and another criminal armed group operating in the country’s breadbasket have been added to a United Nations global sanctions list.

The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution Friday seeking "urgent steps" to expand aid in Gaza, but could not secure the unanimous support needed to call for an immediate cease-fire.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The U.N. Security Council met on Sunday to discuss U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear sites as Russia, China and Pakistan proposed the 15-member body adopt a resolution calling ...

The United Nations Security Council will not improve or become more equitable if it is expanded. By Angela McArdle On 8/10/23 at 7:00 AM EDT The U.N. Security Council Should Be Expanded.

The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Wednesday calling for immediate and urgent dayslong humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas war to allow desperately needed aid to reach ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Five countries won seats on the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday in uncontested elections and will start serving two-year terms in January on the U.N.’s most ...

Only nine months ago, Sierra Leone returned as a non-permanent member of the Security Council after an absence of 53 years. Twenty-five years ago, our shattering civil war was among the thorniest ...

Here’s How Security Council Elections Work. There are 15 members of the United Nations Security Council. Five of them are permanent: the USA, China, the UK, France, and Russia. These “P-5” countries ...

JERUSALEM — The United Nations Security Council has voted 14-0 in favor of a resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza for the rest of Ramadan.

W hen the Security Council was founded as part of the United Nations in 1945, it was built as “an extension of the powers that defeated Hitler and Japan,” and a way to “lock in place the ...

Of a world where the dramatic rifts we witness every day in your own debates (here, in the Security Council!) are leading us all to the brink. The suffering, loss and despair of 103 million uprooted ...