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Russia is lobbying for a secret ballot instead of a public vote when the 193-member U.N. General Assembly next week considers whether to condemn Moscow's move to annex four partially occupied regions in Ukraine after staging what it called referendums.

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The United Nations Security Council is to vote Friday on a resolution condemning the referendums on annexing several Russia-occupied regions of Ukraine, the council's current president, France, has said.

The United Nations Security Council will vote Friday on a resolution condemning the referendums on annexing several Russia-occupied regions of Ukraine, the council's current president, France, said Thursday. The resolution -- drafted by the United States and Albania -- has no chance of passing thanks to Moscow's veto power, though…

Kentucky constitutional amendment would give Legislature more power

The issue would come up for discussion at the U.N., says EAM Jaishankar

An Arkansas state senator has been suspended after an ethics panel ruled that he had filed a frivolous complaint against a fellow lawmaker

As war, climate change and inequality have consumed much of the U.N. General Assembly, world leaders have largely left out mention of the planet’s aging population

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres renewed his call Monday for the global abolition of nuclear weapons as concerns grow over Russia's threat to use them in the Ukraine war. "Decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, we can hear once again the rattling of nuclear sabers," Guterres told a special…