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 ...

Mr. Lévy would have the UN negate that decision and give the seat, and veto, to Ukraine. Welcome to the fight, we say. We’ve been warning about the illegitimacy of Russia’s role in the security ...

Former US Senate staffer Tara Reade said in an explosive interview on Tuesday that she feels "safe" in Russia after fleeing ...

The United States is sanctioning seven members of a Russian intelligence-linked group over alleged attempted "manufactured ...

After speeches by U.S. President Barack Obama ... ending with a plea for Tokyo to take up a seat on the Security Council (UNSC). “Japan seeks to become a permanent member of the Security ...

Ukraine has launched attacks at a number of points across the frontline with Russian forces – suggesting that its long-waited ...

When it comes to climate change, bombs don’t work, so the United Nations Security Council prefers words to action. Tuesday saw the highest profile discussion of climate change in the U.N.’s central ...

A member of Russian President Vladimir Putin's powerful Security Council on Tuesday warned that the more destructive the ...

during a Security Council session shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. At another time, he told the UN General Assembly that President Putin doesn’t need a nuclear weapon to kill himself, ...

In his address to the 69th United Nations General Assembly on September 27, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for a reform of the United Nations Security Council ... of the UN in 1945, and ...

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