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AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping (l) and the acting Peace and Security Council Chairman, Nigerian Ambassador B. Paul Lolo brief reporters at African Union HQ, March 23, 2012

Tsewang Rigzin of Tibetan Youth Congress and hunger strikers, Mar 22, 2012.

The United States has served notice on India and 11 other major importers of Iranian oil that a decision on imposing financial sanctions on them would depend on progress in cutting down supplies from Tehran.

A Tuareg clinic in Kati, Mali, that was recently ransacked.

North Korea is warning world leaders not to raise the issue of its nuclear weapons during a summit next week in South Korea. The reclusive country says it will consider as a "declaration of war" any statement about the North Korean issue at the Nuclear Security Summit.

Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the League of Arab States on the Syrian Crisis.

Somalies on the grounds of a ruined cathedral in Mogadishu in August 2011.

Ján Kubiš, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Afghanistan and head of UNAMA, briefs the Council.

South Korea is ratcheting up its criticism of its northern neighbor, as Pyongyang shows no sign of backing away from plans to conduct what it says would be its third space launch, next month.

Citizens of East Timor, one of the world’s newest and poorest nations, headed to the polls Saturday to vote for the country’s next president. On the brink of civil war in 2006, the country has achieved a measure of political stability over recent years. This year’s campaign period has been markedly peaceful, but the election is a key test for the impoverished, yet oil-rich nation.