Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating ...

Mr. Lévy would have the UN negate that decision and give the seat, and veto, to Ukraine. Welcome to the fight, we say. We’ve been warning about the illegitimacy of Russia’s role in the security ...

Seoul sees a UNSC seat as an opportunity to highlight challenges posed by North Korea, but its bid is expected to face stiff ...

Former US Senate staffer Tara Reade said in an explosive interview on Tuesday that she feels "safe" in Russia after fleeing ...

A top Ukrainian diplomat called Russia a “terrorist state” Tuesday as he opened his country’s case against Moscow at the ...

A member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's powerful Security Council on Tuesday warned that the more destructive the ...

Last October, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was plotting a “false flag” operation to blow up the country’s largest hydroelectric dam, which would flood a large area of ...

When it comes to climate change, bombs don’t work, so the United Nations Security Council prefers words to action. Tuesday saw the highest profile discussion of climate change in the U.N.’s central ...

during a Security Council session shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. At another time, he told the UN General Assembly that President Putin doesn’t need a nuclear weapon to kill himself, ...

During Sergey Lavrov's visit to Kenya, his host, President William Ruto announced that Kenya will deepen its relations with ...

In his address to the 69th United Nations General Assembly on September 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a reform of the United Nations Security Council ... of the UN in 1945, and ...

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