It was just over a decade ago that NATO forces bombed Belgrade in Operation Allied Force, a mission aimed at halting Serbia’s brutal repression of Kosovo. Since then, Serbia has been slowly shaking off its status as a European pariah, inching...

United Nations investigators believe Guinea’s wounded junta leader was directly responsible for the mass killings and rapes of protesters in September, which they consider crimes against humanity, a UN diplomat said. The investigators also...

Prospects for a strong U.N. climate pact grew more remote on Thursday at the climax of two-year talks as ministers and leaders blamed leading emitters China and the United States for deadlock on carbon cuts. Dozens of heads of state were arriving...

The UN envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo says a joint military operation against rebels will be concluded at the end of this month. Alan Doss told the UN Security Council that the campaign in the east of the country had “largely...

Police in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have killed more than 11,000 people in the past six years, many execution-style, according to a report released Tuesday by Human Rights Watch. Few of the officers have been charged in the extrajudicial...

The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the...

Kenya being one of the five countries representing Africa in Copenhagen, has a major role to play in bringing home a real deal to Africa as a whole. Even though very few Kenyans would understand what global warming is all about, at least the...

A Nevada-based company’s purchase of minerals looted from eastern Congo is helping to finance a decade-long war that has claimed the lives of millions of civilians, an unpublished United Nations report claims. Niotan Inc., of Mound House, Nev.,...

Iran had no intention of building 10 new nuclear facilities until it was strongly rebuked by the U.N. nuclear watchdog over its nuclear activities, the country’s nuclear chief said Monday. Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi told state radio...

Ugandan government allegedly turned a blind eye as Rwandan Hutu rebels drafted fighters from refugee camps in the country, a new UN report says. The report, authored by a UN Group of Experts appointed by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, also...