U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Sunday the U.N. Security Council has run out of options on containing North Korea's nuclear program and the United States may have to turn the matter over to the Pentagon. "We have pretty much exhausted ...
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Wednesday that ethnic cleansing is taking place in Myanmar against the Rohingya Muslim minority, and the U.N. Security Council condemned the violence that has led nearly 380,000 Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh. Britain's U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said the council's press ...
The Cabinet approves new unilateral Japanese sanctions on firms and individuals from China, Namibia and North Korea over Pyongyang’s weapons programs.
The United States said Tuesday that talks with North Korea may be possible "in the near future" after Pyongyang reacted to tough new U.N. sanctions with a level of restraint. But, in keeping with a "dual track" strategy of reaching out to the North diplomatically ...
A member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria said on Sunday she was quitting because a lack of political backing from the U.N. Security Council had made the job impossible, Swiss national news agency SDA reported. Carla del Ponte, 70, who prosecuted war ...
North Korea, if left unchecked, is on an "inevitable" path to obtaining a nuclear-armed missile capable of striking the United States, Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart told a Senate hearing on Tuesday. The remarks are the latest indication of mounting U.S. concern ...
Venezuela's government said Wednesday it was sending troops to a western region rocked by violence during anti-government protests, as the United Nations Security Council prepared to discuss the crisis. The death of a 15-year-old boy meanwhile brought the death toll from weeks of protests to ...
The U.N. Security Council met behind closed doors on Tuesday to discuss a new raft of measures, including sanctions, aimed at piling pressure on North Korea after it fired its latest ballistic missile. U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley said the United States was working with China, ...
The United States and Japan on Sunday called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on North Korea after Pyongyang carried out its latest missile test, diplomats said. The meeting has been scheduled in principle for Tuesday afternoon, according to the U.N. ...
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.N. resolution demanding the Syrian government cooperate with an investigation of a suspected chemical attack, blocking Security Council action against its ally for an eighth time. Britain, France and the United States had put forward the measure in response to ...
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley warned Wednesday that the Trump administration will take action against chemical attacks in Syria that bear "all the hallmarks" of President Bashar Assad's government if the U.N. Security Council fails to act. Haley urged the council at an emergency meeting to ...
The White House said Tuesday that a suspected chemical attack by the Syrian government against civilians Tuesday "cannot be ignored by the civilized world," but it fell short of offering a plan of action. Spokesman Sean Spicer said Tuesday's attack in Syria's rebel-held northern Idlib ...
