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Syrian government airstrikes, and rockets from Islamist insurgents, hit many neighborhoods in Aleppo. Fatalities are reported on both sides of the city. This continued fighting threatens the truce and peace talks being held in Geneva, Switzerland. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura says he will meet the government delegation Monday, and will sit down with the main opposition High Negotiations Committee later in the week.
2016-04-16

China has announced it will back a United Nations resolution to make North Korea "pay the necessary price" for the recent rocket launch.
2016-02-12

A vehicle carrying United Nations peacekeepers hits a roadside bomb in northern Mali, injuring six soldiers.
2015-01-4

UN investigators in Syria say Syrian army forces continue to bomb hospitals and massacre civilians.
2013-09-11

North Korea threatens to take "strong physical countermeasures" if South Korea co-operates with new United Nations Security Council resolutions against it.
2013-01-25

Vice President of Iran Mohammad-Reza Rahimi delivers an anti-Semitic speech at a United Nations conference on the illegal drug trade saying that a central Jewish text, the Talmud, was responsible for the spread of illegal drugs around the world; his speech draws condemnation from U.N. and the European Union diplomats.
2012-06-28

Abyei is reported to have been taken under the control of soldiers from the North, with the United Nations confirming events.
2011-05-21

The United Nations votes to lift sanctions imposed on Iraq during the Saddam Hussein era.
2010-12-15

Uganda's government defends the forced repatriation of 1,700 Rwandan refugees, deemed "heavy-handed" by the United Nations; two people are killed in a group alleged to be a security risk following the July 2010 Kampala attacks.
2010-07-20

Actor Don Cheadle is appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations environment agency during a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day.
2010-06-5