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 ...

Russia took over the United Nations ... the Security Council, regardless of its mere formal role, was “a bad joke.” “Russia usurped a seat, is conducting a colonial war, its leader ...

Bernard-Henri Lévy is half-right.

It’s nice to see Bernard-Henri Lévy emerge for expelling Russia from the United Nations Security Council. He’s calling — in an ... On Christmas Day, President George H. W. Bush, perhaps in the spirit ...

Russia’s membership has no legal basis and should be transferred.

Or, as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky put it, Russia’s presidency on the Security Council is “absurd”. Russia has gamed UN rules too ... The institution is broken and has become simply a ...

The U.N. nuclear chief stressed Tuesday that the world is fortunate a nuclear accident hasn’t happened in Ukraine and asked ...

For the first time since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia is taking an intense interest in Cuba as Moscow has become ...

When it comes to climate change, bombs don’t work, so the United Nations ... leaving Russia isolated among the five permanent members of the Council. “Climate change has become a pressing and serious ...

The UN Security Council voted Tuesday to extend an arms embargo and sanctions imposed on individuals in troubled South Sudan, urging all parties to "avoid a relapse into widespread conflict." ...

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