Angry crowds blocked U.N. observers from reaching an embattled rebel-held town in Syria on Tuesday, hurling stones and metal rods at the monitors' vehicles. Their vehicles came under fire as they drov

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned the Security Council on Thursday that a full-blown civil war in Syria was 'imminent,' while international mediator Kofi Annan said it was time to step up the

UN monitors trying to get to the scene of a new massacre in Syria were shot at, UN leader Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday, calling the latest atrocity 'shocking and sickening'.

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The United Nations led calls on Saturday for urgent international action on Syria after reports of a horrific massacre by regime forces that left 92 people dead, more than a third of them children.

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UN leader Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he believes al-Qaeda committed a major bomb attack in Damascus that left dozens dead, and that up to 10,000 people have now been killed in Syria.

Ban said Presi

Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a U.N. Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a confidential report on Iran sanction

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has fractured his hand while he was playing football against UN diplomats over the weekend.

Ban's left arm is in a sling and he would have to wear the ca

Joseph Kony, one of the world's most wanted men, is having to move nearly every day as hunters close in on the African guerrilla leader who may now be in Darfur, a top UN envoy said on Friday.

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India is projected to see a faster growth of 7.5 per cent this fiscal on the back of higher savings and investment rates, even as most of the Asia-Pacific economies are likely to expand at a slower

India and Pakistan got a pat on the back from United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon for their efforts to get back on track a peace process that got derailed after the Mumbai attacks.

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