The UN Security Council ends a decade-long "peacekeeping" mission in Mali.

Russia condemns the US' refusal to issue visas for journalists slated to accompany Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to UN headquarters.

The United Nations Security Council has blasted Israeli plans to expand illegal settlements on the occupied Palestinian territory.

Members of the United Nations Security Council stress the need to maintain a decades-old status quo at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied Old City of al-Quds after the recent Israeli desecration of the holy site.

Iran's UN envoy refutes Ukraine's allegation the Islamic Republic violated a UN resolution.

Mali's foreign minister has slammed France's continued attempts to undermine the sovereignty and national security of his country, pledging that Bamako is resolved to defend itself.

The United Nations Security Council condemns the massacre in Myanmar of more than 35 people, including four children and two humanitarian workers, blamed on junta troops.