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Hilde Johnson, Special Representative and Head of the UN Mission in South Sudan, briefs the Security Council.

Russia hosted closed-door talks Monday with Syrian diplomats in a renewed push for a Syrian peace conference in which Moscow says Tehran also must play a role.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says talks to limit Iran's nuclear program do not threaten Israel's security. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is campaigning against what he says is a "bad agreement" that does not require Iran to dismantle any of its nuclear activities.

Pakistan's government says it will put former military ruler Pervez Musharraf on trial for treason, which is punishable by death or life imprisonment. While the move is unprecedented in a country where top army generals have long enjoyed immunity from prosecution, skeptics are questioning the timing of the announcement.

French President Francois Hollande says his government will maintain sanctions and pressure against Iran until he is certain that it has renounced a suspected nuclear weapons program.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) can confirm it received the original referral from the Toronto Police Service on 23 April, 2012.

The sixth in the series of Schiller Institute conferences for a New Paradigm for Civilization, which began approximately one year ago in Frankfurt, Germany, took place in the Los Angeles area on Nov. 2. Over the course of 12 hours, leaders of the LaRouche movement and a number of international guests from Asia, presented a gripping picture of the future mankind can and must achieve, through developing the Pacific Basin and ending the grip of the Anglo-Dutch empire.

The IAEA conducted the two-week International Physical Protection Advisory Service (IPPAS) mission at the request of the Government of Australia. The mission reviewed the country's nuclear security-related legislative and regulatory framework, physical protection systems at Australia's only nuclear facility - a research reactor operated by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) - and security arrangements applied to the transport of nuclear and other radioactive materials.

Most businesses and schools in Libya's capital are closed Sunday after residents called for a strike to protest recent deadly violence by militias in Tripoli.

Continuing his visit to Estonia on Saturday, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon underscored the vital role of technology and innovation in finding solutions to some of the most pressing challenges such as advancing the global sustainable development agenda.