Russia has taken the presidency of the UN Security Council despite Ukraine urging members to block the move. Each of the council's 15 members takes up the presidency for a month, on a rotating ...

The UN Security Council president presides over meetings and gets to decide the topics of signature sessions Russia is widely accused of violating the UN Charter by invading Ukraine Vladimir Putin ...

Former US Senate staffer Tara Reade said in an explosive interview on Tuesday that she feels "safe" in Russia after fleeing ...

Mr. Lévy would have the UN negate that decision and give the seat, and veto, to Ukraine. Welcome to the fight, we say. We’ve been warning about the illegitimacy of Russia’s role in the security ...

UNITED NATIONS--The United States accused Russia of using a U.N. Security ... put forth in the council last month by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken — that President Vladimir Putin ...

In his address to the 69th United Nations General Assembly on September 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a reform of the United Nations Security Council ... of the UN in 1945, and ...

A member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's powerful Security Council on Tuesday warned that the more destructive the ...

After speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama ... ending with a plea for Tokyo to take up a seat on the Security Council (UNSC). “Japan seeks to become a permanent member of the Security ...

When it comes to climate change, bombs don’t work, so the United Nations Security Council prefers words to action. Tuesday saw the highest profile discussion of climate change in the U.N.’s central ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — First the Russians gave the U.N. spotlight to the commissioner of children’s rights accused with President ... taken to Russia. For the informal Security Council meeting ...

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