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Washington - A New York court should grant the United Nations immunity from legal action brought by victims of a cholera outbreak in post-earthquake Haiti that killed thousands, US officials said Friday.The petition demanding compensation was filed last year on beh...

Geneva - An Australian lawyer and jurist, Francis Gurry, was Thursday renewed for a second term as chief of the UN's influential intellectual property agency based in Switzerland.The World Intellectual Property Organisation's (WIPO) coordination committee nomin...

Montevideo - Uruguay lashed out at the United Nations, labeling the world body "old school" for its criticism of the country's world-first marijuana law.Global drugs body the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) warned Uruguay and the US states of Colorado ...

New York - The United Nations protested Wednesday that its envoy to the tense Ukrainian region of Crimea had been threatened by unidentified armed men, but denied reports he had been kidnapped.UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson told reporters Robert Serry h...

The independent Commission of Inquiry, mandated by the UN to look at the human rights situation in Syria, has condemned Syrian government forces for the brutal tactics they are employing across the country.

New York - Ukraine's deposed president asked Moscow to dispatch troops to re-establish law and order in his country, Russia told an acrimonious latest round of emergency UN Security Council talks Monday.Western powers promptly rubbished the claim at a turbulent s...

New York - An emergency UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine began Monday, called by Russia to set out in greater detail its policy after being threatened by US and EU sanctions."I'll be explaining in considerably more detail the position of the Russian Federat...

Amman - Millions of children in the Middle East will be vaccinated against polio this month after the crippling disease resurfaced in conflict-hit Syria, the United Nations said Sunday.Mass vaccinations have already been launched in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Syr...

New York - Ukraine urged an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Saturday to act now to stop Russian "aggression" in Crimea, accusing Moscow of brutally violating the world body's charter."We call on the Security Council now to do everything possible t...

New York - The UN Security Council convened an emergency meeting Saturday on the escalating crisis in Ukraine after Russian lawmakers approved the deployment of troops to the region.Ukraine urged the Security Council to do "everything possible" to stop Russian ag...