Ex-Bosnian Serb leader sentenced to life in 1995 genocide at Srebrenica
The judgement in a Netherlands-based tribunal brings to a close the legal odyssey of 73-year-old Radovan Karadžić.
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Dispute over economic sanctions ends Trump-Kim nuclear talks
The leaders had contradictory accounts of why there was no agreement on dismantling North Korea's nuclear weapons.
British envoy to U.N. links gold to Venezuela's authoritarian leader
Access to Venezuela's U.K.-held gold could help determine the leader's fate as his country collapses into economic chaos.
Trump administration's go-it-alone policies rapped at Munich summit
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Trump says he will sever nuclear arms control treaty with Russia
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Rise of populism and trade wars erodes international cooperation
The Trump administration's broadsides embolden nations with poor rights records and encourage attacks on journalists.
World faces 'stress test' of dangerous conflicts and climate change
Huge security threats loom from the crisis in Yemen to Afghanistan's fighting to the U.S.-China trade war.
Experts bid to keep U.S.-Russia arms pact alive amid rising tensions
Arms control experts urged the Trump administration to reverse plans to withdraw the U.S. from a Cold War-era treaty.
The United Nations has led 76 investigations in the past 55 years
As demands grow for a U.N. probe of Khashoggi's murder, an Arete News review finds just eight previous such orders.
Anti-corruption forum links corrosive impact on democracy
At least 45 governments, businesses and organizations endorse a 26-point pledge for preventing corruption.
Trump raises risk of arms race with U.S. exit from nuclear treaty
The Trump administration announced plans to withdraw the United States from the INF Treaty of 1987, and blamed Russia.
Trump administration's Nikki Haley to resign as U.S. ambassador to U.N.
The U.S. envoy to the U.N. will depart at the end of 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced without explaining why.
U.S. ordered by U.N. tribunal to lift some economic sanctions on Iran
Judges ruled sanctions reinstated by the Trump administration breached a treaty between Iran and the U.S.
Trump calls U.N. 'unaccountable' in boastful attack on multilateralism
At the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. president attacked the world body as a largely useless "global bureaucracy."
U.N. task force seeks Syrian civilian protections but fighting doesn't stop
Russia and Turkey plan to allow a 'war on terror' to continue against fighters living near civilians in the Idlib region.