More than 200 humanitarian and human rights groups called Thursday for the U.N. General Assembly to address Syria's deadly conflict, citing the Security Council's paralysis in dealing with the crisis. In a declaration published in New York, the 223 signatories said the Security...

(Sky News)- Russia and Syria are preventing essential humanitarian aid from reaching starving, sick civilians in east Aleppo, according to the United Nations. Around 200,000 people desperate for food and medical equipment remain trapped by fierce fighting in the rebel-held district of...

Outgoing United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apologized to the people of Haiti on Thursday for the world body's role in a deadly cholera outbreak that has killed more than 9,300 people and was blamed on Nepali U.N. peacekeepers. Haiti was free of cholera until 2010, when the...

French president Francois Hollande announced on Thursday he will not stand for re-election next year. "I have decided that I will not be a candidate," Hollande said in televised address to the nation. The French leader said he was putting the country’s needs ahead of his personal...