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GENEVA — The United Nations human rights chief called Wednesday for an independent probe into the killing of demonstrators by…

UNITED NATIONS — Britain, France, Germany and several Arab states will call for a UN General Assembly vote soon to…

NAIROBI, Kenya — The presidents of Sudan and the new nation of South Sudan are both predicting the possibility of…

BEIRUT — A senior Lebanese security official says a bomb has exploded at a hotel frequented by United Nations staffers…

Syria has called for an emergency Arab summit in an apparent effort to prevent being suspended by the Arab League,…

GENEVA — The UN human rights office is calling on Egyptian authorities to release a prominent blogger and others imprisoned…

GENEVA — Syria’s nearly eight-month-old uprising has cost at least 3500 civilian lives, the United Nations reported Tuesday, in a…

The United States said on Monday that it had stopped funding UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, following its vote to…

PARIS - The United Nations cultural agency has admitted Palestine as a full member in a highly divisive bid that…

Suicide attackers on Monday blew up a truck bomb and raided UN and US charity offices in Kandahar city, killing…