UNITED NATIONS

The resolution requires states to combat terrorism domestically and prevent their citizens from leaving to fight for foreign terrorist groups.

Watch President Obama and other world leaders address the United Nations.

The U.N. has estimated it will cost $1 billion to tackle the Ebola outbreak, and that it could affect 21,000 people by November.

At the opening event of Climate Week NYC, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon urged leaders to accelerate action on global climate change.

Thinni, Libya’s acting prime minister since March, had sought to reassert control over the strife-torn country by naming a new cabinet.

Libya's prime minister said that three military planes loaded with weapons landed at a rebel-held airport, about five miles east of Tripoli.

"We know what needs to be done but we don't know why it's not being done. It's incomprehensible to us," an MSF doctor in the region said.

A UNICEF report, released Thursday, said that nearly two million children in South Asia die of preventable causes before their fifth birthday.

A study published by environmental regulators has said that the ozone layer around the Earth is recovering.

The report also said that over six weeks of violence since July 13 has displaced nearly 100,000 people in LIbya

The report draws on data from 190 countries and paints a grim picture of the extent of physical and sexual violence against children.

More than 1,900 people have died during the current outbreak, according to the World Health Organization.

The U.N.'s refugee agency says that the conflict in Syria is now "the biggest humanitarian emergency of our era."

Infighting between Islamist militias, which control parts of Libya, has raised fears of the violence spilling into neighboring countries.

Since the beginning of August, UNICEF has dispatched 33 shipments, totaling nearly 1,000 tons of emergency aid, most of it to Iraq.

Eight of the 19 people killed since Aug. 4 were beheaded for nonviolent offenses, including drug smuggling and sorcery.

2.9 million Syrians have fled the country and another 6.4 million are internally displaced. The UN believes it has "failed."

Two Nigerians in Vietnam and a 22-year-old Burmese national who landed in Myanmar after a trip to West Africa are being tested for Ebola.

UNHRC had voted in March to initiate an inquiry into allegations of war crimes during the final months of the civil war, which ended in 2009.

In July, the U.S. shut down its embassy in Libya, while the British embassy suspended operations there earlier this month.

U.N. nuclear-agency chief Yukiya Amano called his trip to Tehran useful.