The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Friday to hear details of a US-Russian deal on Syria as it weighs whether to endorse the agreement, diplomats said. Council members will meet at 5:30 pm (2130 GMT) for the closed-door consultations called. Under the deal, all sides were ...
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday took a swipe at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it was “unacceptable and outrageous” to claim that opposition to settlements was tantamount to ethnic cleansing. Netanyahu has accused the Palestinians of seeking a state with “no Jews” and declared in a video released ...