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The UN Security Council is set to adopt a resolution aimed at choking off millions of dollars in earnings from oil sales.

• 13 февраля 2015, 01:02

UN agencies are interested in opening hub offices in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

• 11 февраля 2015, 21:30

The United Nations is temporarily pulling support to the Democratic Republic of Congo's planned military operation to drive out rebels.

• 11 февраля 2015, 13:12

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for the restoration to power in Yemen of Western-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi after Huthi militia seized power.

• 09 февраля 2015, 17:53

The UN Security Council plans to adopt a resolution next week aimed at halting funding to Islamic State militants from oil, antique trafficking and ransoms.

• 07 февраля 2015, 12:25

UN chief Ban Ki-moon is seeking to boost the UN force in the Central African Republic by 1,030 peacekeepers as the country prepares for elections.

• 06 февраля 2015, 16:27

Russia is making a push at the United Nations for a new resolution to choke off funding from oil sales to the Islamic State group.

• 05 февраля 2015, 13:57

The UN's highest court started delivering its ruling in a long-running genocide case between Croatia and Serbia.

• 03 февраля 2015, 16:21

The UN Security Council demanded the immediate release of all hostages held by the Islamic State group.

• 02 февраля 2015, 14:19

The UN Security Council condemned the "heinous and cowardly" murder of a Japanese journalist, after Islamic State militants claimed his beheading.

• 02 февраля 2015, 13:33

A rocket attack on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol that killed 30 people at the weekend deliberately targeted civilians and the perpetrators must be brought to justice.

• 27 января 2015, 14:15

The UN Security Council will hold a special meeting on the violence in eastern Ukraine.

• 26 января 2015, 15:29

The UN Security Council will hold closed-door meetings Monday on the crisis that has left Yemen in a political vacuum.

• 26 января 2015, 13:20

The World Health Organization's chief admitted the UN agency had been caught napping on Ebola and pledged reforms to avoid similar mistakes in future.

• 26 января 2015, 12:41

United Nations Security Council members arrived in Haiti for a three-day visit to urge the government to hold long-delayed elections.

• 24 января 2015, 15:57

The UN Security Council, including Russia, strongly condemned the "reprehensible" shelling of a trolleybus in east Ukraine.

• 23 января 2015, 11:34

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy led calls at the United Nations to confront a global rise in anti-Semitism.

• 23 января 2015, 09:59

The UN Security Council condemned an attack by Huthi rebels on Yemen's presidential palace and voiced strong support for President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi.

• 21 января 2015, 14:27

Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee told the UN Security Council that peace worldwide was losing ground and fear is on the rise.

• 20 января 2015, 11:02

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon voiced alarm over fierce fighting around the Donetsk airport in eastern Ukraine.

• 19 января 2015, 16:03