Rick Gladstone

The Council’s recommendation basically assures the Portuguese statesman’s tenure as secretary general and extends the history of male-only stewardship of the United Nations since its 1945 founding.

A powerful United Nations committee deferred a decision on applications by the ruling authorities of both countries, widely regarded as pariahs, to replace envoys of the governments they had toppled.

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a press freedom monitoring group, said 293 journalists were behind bars this year, more than a quarter of them in China.

Russia’s derailment of the measure underscored the challenges faced by the United Nations in uniting the global community to combat climate change.

With vitriolic accusations that echoed the Cold War era, the United States and Russia sparred in a bitter debate over the Ukraine crisis in a Security Council meeting watched by the world on Monday.

The canvas replica of Picasso’s painting, symbolizing war’s horrors, had been a photogenic fixture at the United Nations for decades before its owner, the Rockefeller family, removed it last year.

The apparent execution of Ukrainian civilians by retreating Russian forces, their bodies strewn in streets and yards, has focused attention on what constitutes crimes in war.

Long after the fighting ends, any prosecutions and trials arising from it could be barely beginning. Here is a look at the complexities of bringing aggressors to justice.

Mariupol, a symbol of the war’s human cost, likely was Ukraine’s ‘deadliest place’ through April.

In eastern Ukraine, U.S. officials say, Moscow is likely to end up with more territory, but neither side will gain full control of the region. China and India are snapping up Russian crude, bolstering Moscow’s economy.