Regime forces resumed their assault on the Syrian protest city of Homs on Monday, activists said, after Damascus rejected an Arab plan to send a peacekeeping force to the unrest-hit country.

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UN envoys on Wednesday raised growing fears over 'revolutionary brigades' in Libya accused of causing a surge in post-Gaddafi unrest and holding thousands of people in secret detention centers.

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The United States, Japan, South Korea and most leading European countries have boycotted a minute's silence at the United Nations General Assembly for North Korea's late leader, Kim Jong-il.

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Syrians voted on Monday in municipal elections as security forces pushed a deadly crackdown on dissent that the United Nations said has killed more than 5,000 people.

As regime opponents piled on the

Over 5000 people have been killed in Syria's violent crackdown against protesters, the UN rights chief has told the Security Council, recommending that the regime of President Bashar-al Assad be referred to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

A veil of secrecy shrouded the penultimate day of COP 17 with pressure mounting on countries to come clean on their positions. India and China remained on the defensive, finding it difficult to face t

The US drone which Iran said it shot down penetrated 250km inside the Islamic republic's airspace, state television's website reported on Friday.

In a letter of protest to the United Nations, the gov

Some 7,000 people, many of them foreigners, are being held in Libyan detention centres controlled by ‘revolutionary brigade’ militias, according to a new UN report.

Women and children are among detai

A resolution condemning Iran at the UN atomic agency on Friday will only strengthen the Islamic republic's determination to press ahead with its 'peaceful' nuclear programme, Tehran's envoy said.

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday praised women’s role in advancing peace after this year's Nobel Peace Prize were awarded to three women.