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The U.N. Security Council has demanded that Yemen’s Houthi rebels halt all attacks on ships and urged that disruptions to maritime security be addressed, without mentioning the link between the Iran-backed rebels and the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

North Korea and Russia have clashed with the United States, South Korea and their allies at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Pyongyang’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, which it called “a warning counter-measure” to threats from the U.S. and other hostile forces

Beijing and Moscow had ‘bent over backwards’ to justify North Korea’s violations of UN sanctions, US ambassador says.

The United States and its allies have clashed with China and Russia over North Korea’s escalating ballistic missile launches and American-led military exercises in South Korea, again preventing any action by the divided U.N. Security Council

The top U.N. envoy in Mali is demanding that the country’s military leaders allow U.N. peacekeepers to visit a town where Human Rights Watch says the Malian army and foreign soldiers suspected to be Russian recently killed an estimated 300 men, one of several alleged rights abuses denounced by the…