A new agreement between the governing council in Benghazi and the Italian government raises the prospect that refugees seeking asylum will be forced back to Libya.
North Korea has assumed the rotating presidency of the United Nations Conference on Disarmament. Yes this looks bad. But worry not. Nothing nefarious will actually come of it.
A special guest post from UN Foundation Executive Director of Public Affairs Aaron Sherinian, who accompanied the UN Foundation board on a climate change fact-finding trip to Svalbard, Norway last week.
In what appears to be the most brazen attack in the Afghan capital in months, several gunmen and suicide bombers have attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul.
A harrowing new report from Refugees International shows that insurgent attacks in Afghanistan are on the rise and the number of displaced Afghan's has skyrocketed over the past year.
Today, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization will announce that the cattle-plague Rinderpest has been officially eradicated from planet earth. This is a huge, huge achievement for humanity.
A three judge panel certified the warrants by issuing a legal document that offers some details about horrific abuses that occurred in the early days of the Libyan uprising.