United Nations Security Council
Russia says Syria can deliver aid, Turkey not essential

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 22, 2021 07:11 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia’s foreign minister says Moscow disagrees that there is no alternative to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest...

Iran regains UN voting rights and lashes out at US sanctions

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 11, 2021 03:00 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran regained its voting rights in the U.N. General Assembly on Friday after making the minimum payment on its U.N. dues and lashed out...

Brazil, UAE, Albania, Ghana and Gabon win UN council seats

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 11, 2021 12:18 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations elected five countries to join the powerful U.N. Security Council on Friday with no suspense because all were...

Josep Borrell Fontelles vice president of the European Commission in charge of coordinating the external action of the European Union, delivers his speech about the Systematic repression in Belarus and its consequences for European security following abductions from an EU civilian plane intercepted by Belarusian authorities. Strasbourg eastern France, Tuesday 8 june , 2021. (Jean-François Badias / Pool via AP)
Russia spars with EU and US at meeting on EU-UN cooperation

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 11, 2021 12:35 AM EDT

FILE - In this April 19, 2020 file photo, shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria. Millions of Syrians risk losing access to lifesaving aid, including food and COVID-19 vaccines if Russia gets its way at the Security Council by blocking the use of the last remaining cross-border aid corridor into northwestern Syria, an international rights group said Thursday, June 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)
Watchdog warns of aid disaster in Syria; shelling kills 11

By Sarah El Deeb Jun. 10, 2021 12:43 PM EDT

US envoy heads to Turkey seeking to ensure aid to Syrians

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 01, 2021 07:56 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.S ambassador to the United Nations headed to Turkey late Tuesday seeking to ensure that humanitarian aid can be delivered to Syria...

UN warns Tigray faces famine risk if aid isn't scaled up

By Edith M. Lederer May. 26, 2021 07:30 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned the Security Council that the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is worsening...

UN envoy: Syrian people face ìmmense humanitarian suffering

By Edith M. Lederer May. 26, 2021 01:43 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Syria said Wednesday it’s “a tragic irony” that ordinary Syrians are facing “immense and growing humanitarian...

Syrian students dance as attend to votes at a polling station during the Presidential elections in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. Syrians headed to polling stations early Wednesday to vote in the second presidential elections since the deadly conflict began in the Arab country. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
Syrians vote in election certain to give Assad new mandate

By Albert Aji May. 26, 2021 02:12 AM EDT

UN council meets in person for first time since December

By Edith M. Lederer May. 25, 2021 10:21 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It was a big day for a half dozen ambassadors on the U.N. Security Council: They set foot in the chamber for a meeting for the first time...

UN official: Conflicts make controlling COVID more difficult

By Edith M. Lederer May. 25, 2021 09:02 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Despite last year’s U.N. call for global cease-fires to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, many conflicts never stopped including in Syria,...

Spanish U.N peacekeepers pass under a Palestinian flag as they patrol on the Lebanese side of the Lebanese-Israeli border in the southern village of Kfar Kila, Lebanon, Saturday, May 15, 2021. On Israel's northern border with Lebanon, Israeli troops opened fire on Friday when a group of Lebanese and Palestinian protesters on the other side cut through the border fence and briefly crossed. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
UN condemns peacekeeper attacks, urges prosecution, safety

By Edith M. Lederer May. 24, 2021 09:19 PM EDT

Supporters of a Pakistani religious party take part in a rally in support of Palestinians in conflict with Israelis Friday, May 21, 2021, in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)
The Latest: Biden says his party 'still supports Israel'

By The Associated Press May. 21, 2021 05:44 AM EDT

Director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Africa Department, Wu Peng, center right, prepares for a briefing in Beijing on Thursday, May 20, 2021. Wu told reporters on Thursday that China is currently providing COVID-19 vaccines to nearly 40 African countries and that the vaccines were either being donated or sold at "favorable prices." (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China says providing vaccines to almost 40 African nations

May. 20, 2021 03:37 AM EDT

Elderly people wearing protective masks line up to be registered to receive their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination centre in Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, in Soweto, South Africa, Monday, May 17, 2021. South Africa has started its mass vaccination drive with the goal of inoculating nearly 5 million citizens aged 60 and above by the end of June. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
UN urges more vaccines for Africa, with only 2 percent now

By Edith M. Lederer May. 19, 2021 06:07 PM EDT

Healthcare workers transport to a morgue the body of a patient who died from COVID-19 at Clinicas Hospital in San Lorenzo, Paraguay, Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The Health Ministry reported that a record number of people died from COVID-19 on Tuesday, May 18. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
The Latest: Detroit archbishop ends mask rule for vaccinated

By The Associated Press May. 19, 2021 01:10 AM EDT

Israeli security forces and emergency services work on a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ramat Gan, central Israel, Saturday, May 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Israeli warplanes stage more heavy strikes across Gaza City

By Fares Akram And Ravi Nessman May. 16, 2021 02:11 PM EDT

UN Security Council urges immediate cease-fire in Yemen

By Edith M. Lederer May. 12, 2021 09:26 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council called for an immediate halt to fighting in Yemen on Wednesday, saying that only a lasting cease-fire and...

An Israeli soldier stands guard next to an Iron Dome air defense system as smoke rises from an oil tank on fire after it was hit by a rocket fire from Gaza Strip, near the town of Ashkelon, Israel,, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
The Latest: Netanyahu raps 'anarchy' of Jewish-Arab fighting

By The Associated Press May. 12, 2021 06:40 AM EDT

UN seeks proposals to end force on Sudan-South Sudan border

May. 11, 2021 10:56 PM EDT
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Tuesday to extend the mandate of the nearly 3,700-strong peacekeeping force in the disputed Abyei region on the...