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The United Nations Security Council held a closed-door session on Wednesday to discuss last week's Melilla tragedy. At least 23 migrants died trying to cross into the Spanish enclave, amid clashes with Moroccan and Spanish security forces, and 140 security personnel were injured. About 2,000 migrants tried to storm a…

Geir Pedersen, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General for Syria, urged the international community on Wednesday to not to forget Syria amid the repercussions of the war that Russia is waging against Ukraine. Speaking via video teleconference, the envoy told the Security Council that renewing the resolution authorizing cross-border humanitarian…

Senior Western officials voiced doubts about reviving the 2015 Iran nuclear deal on Thursday, with the European Union saying it "might not make it over the finishing line" and a U.S. official saying the odds had lengthened after this week's failed talks.

Russia's Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that in certain circumstances, sanctions against Moscow may be seen as an act of aggression and a justification for war.

Mali vowed on Wednesday to defy a United Nations Security Council call for the West African country to allow freedom of movement for peacekeepers to investigate human rights abuses.

A Congolese woman was kidnapped twice by militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo, repeatedly raped and forced to cook and eat human flesh, a Congolese rights group told the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday.

The U.N. special envoy for Congo is warning that the M23 rebel group has increasingly acted as a conventional army during escalating military action in the country’s volatile east and could threaten the U.N. peacekeeping force charged with protecting civilians

Odessa MP Alex Goncharenko - a key ally of President Volodymyr Zelensky - called for the Royal Navy to police a deal allowing grain exports from Black Sea ports

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Tuesday of becoming "a terrorist" state carrying out "daily terrorist acts" and urged Russia’s expulsion from the United Nations. In a virtual address to the UN Security Council, Zelenskyy urged the U.N. to establish an international tribunal to investigate "the actions of Russian…

Russia must be "brought to justice" or it "could bring terrorist activity" to other European countries and Asia, Zelensky said.

NATO on Wednesday branded Russia the biggest "direct threat" to Western security after its invasion of Ukraine and agreed plans to modernise Kyiv's beleaguered armed forces, saying it stood fully behind Ukrainians' "heroic defence of their country".