Seven United Nations peacekeepers from the west African country of Niger were killed in an ambush while they were on a patrol in a southwest region of Ivory Coast, an attack which drew strong......
The UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on the situation in Syria, condemning a massacre in which 108 people were killed including men, women and children in the Syrian village of Houla.......
UN chief Ban Ki-Moon on Tuesday asked the international community to take "timely action" to preserve drylands across the world, saying about two billion people depend on drylands for sustenance......