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The U.N. Security Council is due to meet in public on Monday, at the request of the United States, to discuss Russia's troop build-up on the border with Ukraine as international diplomacy aimed at easing tensions moves to the world body in New York.

Washington continues to ramp up diplomatic and financial pressure on Russia over Ukraine, as United States politicians say they are nearing agreement on "the mother of all sanctions".

UN experts accused the Iran-backed Houthi group of recruiting children and using sexual violence and repression against women, stressing that the recently confiscated weapons and missiles have technical characteristics consistent with Iranian-made weapons. The experts pointed out that violations of the UN arms embargo and the Houthi recruitment of children…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged on Friday the members of the Security Council to unify their stance over extending the mandate of the UN mission in Libya (UNSMIL), which ends Jan. 31, following a disagreement between the US and Russia. Moscow has demanded the UN secretary general’s special advisor…

The US is turning to the United Nations Security Council in hopes of engaging Russia in ‘preventative diplomacy’ as Ukrainian legislators ask their American counterparts for preemptive sanctions against Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin told French leader Emmanuel Macron in a telephone conversation that the US has "failed to take into consideration Russia's security concerns" over the Ukraine crisis.

The United States has asked that the United Nations Security Council meet publicly on Monday to discuss Russia's "threatening behavior" against Ukraine and its troop build-up on Ukraine's borders and in Belarus, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday.

Russia signaled on Friday that it could call a vote to prevent the U.N. Security Council from meeting publicly on Monday, at the request of the United States, to discuss a build-up of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine.

The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, briefed on Wednesday the Security Council on the latest developments in Syria and his diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.

The attack by ISIS militants on a Syrian prison holding around 3,000 of its fighters and about 700 children is a predictable tragedy spotlighting the need for urgent international action to deal with those allegedly linked to the extremist group in prisons and camps in the country’s northeast, the UN…

The United States said it has called for an open meeting of the UN Security Council next Monday to address the crisis around Ukraine due to what it called "threatening behavior" by Russia. "More than 100,000 Russian troops are deployed on the Ukrainian border and Russia is engaging in other…