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An SS-18 Intercontinental Ballistic Missile - nicknamed 'Satan' - on display in Ukraine's Strategic Missile Forces Museum.

Nuclear Security & WMD

Ukraine's shattered deal: nuclear weapons for security assurances

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More than 30 years later, Ukraine is fighting for its survival as it laments the Budapest Memorandum's broken promises.

NATO defense ministers meet in Brussels.

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At NATO meeting, Europe demands to be part of Ukraine peace process

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European defense leaders were indignant at U.S.-Russia talks that excluded Ukraine, saying it must be part of negotiations.

The U.N. General Assembly meets to approve a blueprint for future action

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

U.N. adopts 'pact' of new governance ideas for 21st century challenges

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The pact, approved by consensus, outlines 56 broad actions, including an explicit call to phase out fossil fuels.

SciTech Diplomacy

Majority of nations pass measure setting up U.N. vote on 'killer robots'

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A first-of-its-kind provision cites an 'urgent need' for nations to address concerns about autonomous weapons systems.

Protesters in Guatemala demand the president's resignation.

Human Rights

Reprisals against human rights defenders cited among 42 nations

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A new report's evidence of threats and retaliation extends to 12 of the U.N. Human Rights Council's 47 member nations.

The U.N. Security Council Chamber in New York features a horseshoe-shaped table and large mural by a Norwegian artist.

Security & Geopolitics

Slovenia outdistances Belarus in U.N. vote that reflects war in Europe

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The U.N. General Assembly's vote for the next five seat-holders on the powerful Security Council for 2024-25 delivered a resounding win to an E.U. member over a Russian ally.

Nuclear Security & WMD

Nuclear tensions fuel disarmament agenda for Hiroshima G-7 summit

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Humanitarian leaders say the risk of nuclear catastrophe is the highest 'since the worst moments of the Cold War.'

Diplomats meet in the U.N. Security Council Chamber in 2019

Security & Geopolitics

Putin, charged with war crimes, takes over U.N.'s most powerful arm

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Russia's status as U.N. Security Council president is bound up in a frozen-in-time power structure dating to World War II.

A U.S. Air Force transporter erector attached to a payload transporter is raised with the missile removed

Nuclear Security & WMD

Stockpiles of nuclear weapons available for use increased in 2022

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Nuclear warheads available to nations for deployment reached 9,576 at the start of 2023, up from 9,440 a year earlier.

Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya speaks to European lawmakers

Human Rights

Assassination to intimidation: dissidents targeted across borders

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Assassination and unlawful deportations are some of the methods that regimes use against activists and dissidents.

Ukrainian firefighters check damage from a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv

Migrants and Refugees

As the war intensifies, more Ukrainians shelter away from home

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While many Ukrainians stay to fight, several million Ukrainians have fled their country, mostly to Poland.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, then U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, visits Namibia in October 2016

Security & Geopolitics

Biden U.N. pick signals U.S. return to alliances

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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s selection of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to serve as ambassador to the U.N. signals America's pivot back to multilateralism.