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Brazil formally withdraws from the UN's Global Compact for Migration pact; however, Brazil's Foreign Minister Ernesto Araújo says that the country will continue to accept Venezuelan refugees.
2019-01-8

A meeting is held in Lima attended by representatives from Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil, to develop requests for aid in regards to Venezuelan immigrants, which will be sent to organisations including the United Nations and International Red Cross. Yesterday, there was a similar meeting in Bogotá. A larger meeting has been set-up to be held in Quito in early September, to be attended by representatives from 14 countries and 10 international organisations.
2018-08-29

Ambassador to the United Nations for Palestine Riyad Mansour says diplomats will ask the UN to probe the violence.
2018-04-21

A judge in Peru issues an arrest warrant for former President Alejandro Toledo for allegedly receiving US$20 million in bribes from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction company, in exchange for a contract deal to build a transoceanic highway between Brazil and the Peruvian coast. Toledo denies any wrongdoing.
2017-02-10

The United Nations fears that approximately 700 migrants have drowned in three Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over the past few days.
2016-05-29

U. N. attack helicopters launch strikes against positions of Allied Democratic Forces. This comes a day after a series of clashes between rebels and soldiers in a town in eastern Congo killed at least 30 people.
2015-12-1

2011 Syrian uprising: Syria's opposition urge the United Nations and Arab League to hold emergency meetings after an alleged massacre took place in the northwest of the country, before Arab League monitors enter the country.
2011-12-21

The United Nations states that the world population will reach seven billion people by October 31, 2011.
2011-10-26

Serbia's war crimes court rejects an appeal from former Bosnian Serb Colonel General Ratko Mladić against a transfer to a United Nations tribunal in The Hague to face genocide charges.
2011-05-31

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signs a decree promising Brazil's co-operation with United Nations sanctions against Iran.
2010-08-11