Sources: UN
Four Filipino UN peacekeepers are kidnapped by armed men while patrolling the demilitarized area between Syria and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights. 2013-05-7
The members of the United Nations are scheduled to decide on Australian diplomat Peter Woolcott's draft for the first ever treaty to regulate the conventional arms trade. 2013-03-28
North Korea threatens the "final destruction" of South Korea during a United Nations conference on disarmament. 2013-02-19
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius announces that France intends to vote in favor of upgrading Palestine's status at the United Nations from permanent observer as the Palestinian Liberation Organization to a non-member observer state. The vote is scheduled to be held later this week. 2012-11-27
The United Nations reports the deaths of 13 men in a mass execution in eastern Syria. 2012-05-30
The International Air Transport Association calls for the United Nations to intervene in the dispute between the People's Republic of China and the European Union over airlines' involvement in the EU's carbon tax scheme for airlines. 2012-02-12
Abyei is reported to have been taken under the control of soldiers from the North, with the United Nations confirming events. 2011-05-21
NATO's top decision-making body approves a plan to implement a United Nations arms embargo but fail to agree on plans to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya. 2011-03-20
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
A United Nations report says mobile phones are used by around 4.6 billion in total or two-thirds of the world population, including more than half of people in the developing world. 2010-02-23