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‘War criminals have no place in UN bodies aimed at protecting human rights,’ Ukraine said

The United Nations General Assembly voted to suspend Russia from the Geneva-based Human Rights Council on Thursday with the U.S.-led push garnering 93 votes in favor, while 24 countries voted no and 58 countries abstained.

Russia is the first permanent member of the UN Security Council to have its membership revoked from any UN body.

Forty years after the war in the South Atlantic, common sense demands a negotiated settlement with Argentina, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said after meeting U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths in Kyiv on Thursday that his country was grateful for all the humanitarian aid it has received since Russia's invasion but needs more assistance.

When Ukraine learned on April 2 that the whole Kyiv region had been liberated from Russian troops, there was barely any jubilation. This was mostly because of the gruesome evidence of war crimes left by the Russian occupying force in what were once affluent suburbs of Kyiv. The horrors discovered…

The world has the means to avert the greatest ravages of global heating – but we must deploy them immediately, while eliminating the fuels and activities that threaten to warm Earth beyond safe levels. This is the conclusion of a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),…

Exclusive: UN says new number will be ‘fairly close to actual death toll’ amid criticism of current low figure

In his first address to the UN Security Council since the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week called on the 15-member body to reform itself or face dissolution. That may be easier said than done. But the response to reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha, near Kyiv, highlights…

KYIV, Ukraine — As Ukraine braced for a redoubled Russian offensive in the east and unearthed fresh evidence of atrocities outside its capital of Kyiv, the United Nations General Assembly sharply rebuked Moscow on Thursday by suspending it from the world body’s 47-member Human Rights Council.

Gunmen in Myanmar's largest city have shot a deputy governor of the central bank, less than a week after tough currency controls were ordered in the military-ruled nation