South Sudan on Sunday rejected allegations it was arming insurgents in two conflict-stricken border regions in Sudan after its old civil war foe brought the charges to the United Nations Security Council. Full story
Russia said Tuesday it will not support any United Nations Security Council resolutions on Libya which could escalate the conflict, local news agencies reported. Full story
Afghans angry over the burning of a Quran at a Florida church stormed a U.N. compound in Afghanistan, and clashes claimed the lives of seven foreign U.N. staff and several Afghans. Full story
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at a conference in London on the unrest in Libya.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice defends President Obama’s decision to take military action in Libya, telling TODAY’s Meredith Vieira that if the United States had not got involved, tens of thousands of Libyans would have been killed.
Former Pa. Gov. Ed Rendell joins Morning Joe to address the big questions surrounding Libya: Who are the Libyan rebels? How much support should the allied forces give them? How, if at all, is the US acting outside of the U.N. Security Council’s mandate?
The United Nations Security Council approved “a wide range of actions, including strikes on air-defense systems and missile attacks from ships” to quell violence against civilians by Muammar Gadhafi’s troops. Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation joins to analyze the latest.
epa03087439 United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks with Susan Rice , the United States' Ambassador to the United Nations, during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the ongoing violence in Syria at United Nations headquarters in New York, New York, USA on 31 January 2012.
Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari addresses the U.N Security Council as it meets at U.N. headquarters in New York January 31, 2012. The Arab League asked the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to adopt a resolution endorsing an Arab plan for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to tra
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