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UN human rights chief Navi Pillay was deeply troubled by Israel's attack on Syrian protesters at their shared border Sunday, she said in a press conference today.

There is renewed evidence that Iran is providing weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan – weapons that are used to kill both Afghan and foreign troops in the country.

Former South Korean Ban Ki-moon has asked for the support of UN Security Council for his candidacy for a second five-year term as U.N. secretary-general.

About 18 were killed when Israeli troops fired at Palestinian demonstrators in Syria on Sunday in what Israel called a challenge to its sovereignty, a Syrian state-run media reported.

A criminal court in Egypt has sentenced former finance minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali to thirty years in prison for graft and corruption.

Amnesty International accuses Qatar of violating international law.

While thousands of people are seeking to escape war-torn Libya by making a hazardous voyage by boat to Europe, many thousands more are pouring southward into the poverty-stricken desert nations of Niger and Chad.

Israel's attendance at French peace talks may decide the future of the Palestinian state

Missiles struck the palace of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah in Sana’a on Friday, wounding the president and three senior officials. National security council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the U.S. is monitoring reports that Saleh was wounded, but could not confirm it.

The United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague awaits Ratko Mladic where he is going to answer charges of genocide in the Bosnia war on Friday.

The United States vows to represent an obstacle in the representation of a Palestinian state at the UN.

Authorities announced hundreds of Libyan refugees dead in cross-Mediterranean escape.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il and his loyalists can't seem to have enough of luxury goods and sex slaves a.k.a. Joy Squad to indulge themselves even as the rest of the country suffers in abject poverty.

A new report by the Global Commission on Drug Policy calls for a broad rethinking of the war on drugs

A 19-member international panel has condemned the US-led War on Drugs campaign as a failure and has recommended major reforms of the global drug prohibition regime.

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Ratko Mladic has arrived in The Netherlands, where the former fugitive and suspected war criminal will face charges if committing genocide, among other crimes, during the Balkan wars of the early 1990s.

(Reuters) - Tobacco will kill nearly six million people this year, including 600,000 non-smokers, because governments are not doing enough to persuade people to quit or protect others from second-hand smoke, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Parts of war-torn Libya controlled by Moammar Gaddafi are running out of food and medicine, according to the United Nations humanitarian coordinator for the country.

A war crimes court in Serbia has rejected an extradition appeal by the lawyers of Ratko Mladic, meaning the former army general will be transferred to a United Nations tribunal in The Hague to face charges that he committed genocide.

Spain will recognize a Palestinian state along the 1967 borders before September, said Alfonso Manuel Portales, Spanish Consul General in east Jerusalem, according to the Jerusalem Post.