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* UN experts review Turkey's rights record, anti-terror law * Decry high number of prosecutions of activists, journalists * Govt says right to lawyer guaranteed, torture not tolerated By Stephanie ...

Palestine would apply to the UN to save peace process. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said that his country decided to apply to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in order to save the ...

Rwanda was among five nations elected to the U.N. Security Council on Oct. 18, amid an ongoing investigation by a U.N. panel of its role in neighboring Congo’s rebellion. The ...

Turkey supported temporary ceasefire in Syria. Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that Turkey supported call of the joint UN and Arab League special envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi for a temporary ceasefire in Syria in the upcoming Muslim ...

The international envoy to the Syrian conflict has called on President Bashar Assad's regime to take the lead in a proposed cease-fire during a Muslim holiday later this month. Lakhdar ...

Reports on an alleged plan to deploy 3,000 peacekeeping troops to war-torn Syria are “false,” said Lakhdar Brahimi, the new UN-Arab League peace envoy to Syria, denying mass media speculations. ...

International peace envoy Lakhdar Brahimi called on Monday for a temporary ceasefire in Syria during the four-day Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday later this month, a statement said. "Lakhdar Brahimi has ...

Turkish President Abdullah Gul received Joint UN and Arab League's special envoy on Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi in Istanbul. Turkish President Abdullah Gul received Joint UN and Arab League's special envoy on ...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rebuked the U.N. Security Council for inaction overSyria on Saturday, saying the world body was repeating mistakes that led to massacres in Bosnia in the 1990s. ...

Erdogan said structural injustice was clearly seen in functioning of several international organizations especially UN. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said United Nations (UN) must be reformed on justice. Delivering ...