UNITED NATIONS

Negotiations will begin amid record-breaking global temperatures observed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The country cited Western critics of North Korean defectors to back up its rebuttal of a United Nations report alleging mass human-rights abuses.

The Stalinist state has reacted with anger over a U.N. vote that suggested it face crimes-against-humanity charges.

Washington has contributed more than $3 billion to Syrian Civil War victims since the conflict started in 2011.

Kenya has seen a huge influx of refugees as conflicts in South Sudan and Somalia continue to displace hundreds of thousands of people.

Signed by representatives of both countries, the draft document proposes the disengagement of forces in three phases.

North Korea, shaken by a damning U.N. report on its human rights abuses, is employing Cuban diplomatic proxies to try and quash charges.

The Israeli government said the results of the U.N. investigation into the Gaza war are "pre-determined."

120 people have been slaughtered in a wave of massacres, shattering confidence in Congolese and U.N. forces ability to stabilize the region.

The Burkina Faso army has named Lt. Col. Issac Yacouba Zida as the transitional leader after President Blaise Compaore's ouster Friday.

According to U.N. estimates, at least 10 million people worldwide are currently stateless, and every 10 minutes a baby is born stateless.

Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, has been kept in detention, and has spent time in solitary confinement since her arrest in June.

The U.N.'s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran has raised concerns over the "alarming" increase in executions in the country.

European Union leaders have made an "ambitious" deal to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Some think it's too much, others think it's not enough.

China is seen as North Korea's principal backer at the UN, but its backing is far from assured, according to a leading UN investigator.

The Yazidis, who live primarily around the Sinjar mountains in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, have faced several attacks from ISIS.

The U.N.'s health wing said in an internal memo that "nearly everyone" involved in the response underestimated the epidemic.

At a conference attended by envoys of nearly 30 nations, Qatar committed $1 billion in aid -- the single largest donation by any country.

The international body warned the global response to the Ebola outbreak needs to be '20 times greater' than it was at the start of October.

The motion, if passed, would not change government policy, but might signal a change in European attitudes to Palestinian statehood.