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© Kena Betancur, AFP | Antonio Guterres speaks to reporters at the UN headquarters in New York, on April 12, 2016

Portugal’s ex-prime minister Guterres poised to become next UN secretary-general

13:18 05/10/2016

The Security Council unanimously agreed Wednesday that Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres should be the next secretary-general of the United Nations.

© Tony Karumba, AFP | South Sudan opposition leader and former vice president Riek Machar at a press conference in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on May 31, 2014

S. Sudan opposition leader in Khartoum for medical treatment

13:46 27/08/2016

South Sudan opposition leader, Riek Machar, is in Khartoum for medical treatment, a Sudanese minister told the state news agency SUNA on Tuesday, after he left the country to escape government forces.

North Korea: U.S. crossed 'red line', declared war

16:55 28/07/2016

A top North Korean diplomat on Thursday warned the United States had "crossed the red line" and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its list of sanctioned individuals. (July 28) AP

Libyan Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Libyan embassy in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, July 5, 2016. Al-Thinni of the interim government based in the eastern region, told The Associated Press that th

UN envoy: No recognition for Libya's eastern government

11:08 07/07/2016

The new, U.N.-brokered unity government established this year is trying to overcome those divisions.

Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), attends a news conference during the World Climate Change Conference 2015 (COP21) at Le Bourget, near Paris, France, December 7

Costa Rica nominates former U.N. climate head to be next U.N. chief

11:07 07/07/2016