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Fearing Islamic State, some Afghan Shi'ites seek help from old enemies

Even by Afghanistan's standards of often-shifting alliances, a recent meeting between ethnic Hazara ...

Mar 22, 2015 05:39 AM EDT

Executions top long U.N. list of human rights concerns in Iran

Iran had a "deeply troubling" number of executions last year and did not keep a promise to protect e...

Mar 03, 2015 09:13 AM EST

Obama rejects as 'ugly lie' notion that West at war with Islam

U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday urged countries to tackle violent Islamist militancy around ...

Feb 20, 2015 08:33 AM EST

U.N. chief appeals to Indonesia to stop death row executions

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appealed to Indonesia on Friday not to execute prisoner...

Feb 14, 2015 06:30 AM EST

Obama denounces 'outrageous murders' of three U.S. Muslims

U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday described the deaths of three young Muslims gunned down in Nor...

Feb 14, 2015 06:18 AM EST

Russia blocks U.N. statement on Ukraine as fighting escalates

Russia prevented the U.N. Security Council on Saturday from criticizing statements by pro-Russian Uk...

Jan 25, 2015 05:59 AM EST

ICC opens examination of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The International Criminal Court has launched an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian...

Jan 17, 2015 06:44 AM EST

U.N. wants fewer but better performing troops in Congo

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recommends in a report reducing the number of peacekeepers in Dem...

Jan 06, 2015 01:15 AM EST

Syria calls for U.N. sanctions on Israel over air strikes

Syria asked the United Nations Security Council on Monday to impose sanctions on neighboring Israel,...

Dec 09, 2014 06:14 AM EST

Two Americans freed by North Korea return to U.S. soil

Two Americans freed from secretive North Korea stepped off a plane into the welcoming arms of family...

Nov 09, 2014 09:09 PM EST

U.N. chief condemns planned separatist election in eastern Ukraine

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday condemned an election being organized by pro-Russian...

Oct 29, 2014 08:28 PM EDT

U.N. condemns top human rights official's expulsion from Congo

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday condemned the expulsion of the top U.N. huma...

Oct 22, 2014 12:20 AM EDT

Ban Ki-moon makes surprise visit to Libya, urges dialogue

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Tripoli on Saturday to urge the warring factions fighting...

Oct 12, 2014 03:28 AM EDT

World leaders to gather at U.N. in shadow of Islamic State, Ebola crises

World leaders gather in New York this week to tackle a host of crises: the violence Islamic State mi...

Sep 21, 2014 08:07 PM EDT

Chad accuses U.N. of neglecting its peacekeepers in Mali

Chad's government accused the United Nations' peacekeeping mission in Mali on Friday of failing to r...

Sep 20, 2014 04:54 AM EDT

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