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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Chinese pianist Lang Lang with, new United Nations Messenger of Peace.

A leading U.S. newspaper says U.S. President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing that his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and that the program has now ended.

United Nations Secretary-General has strongly condemned the killing by M23 rebels of a UN peacekeeper in strife-riven eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and pledged the Organization's ongoing commitment to take “all necessary actions” to protect civilians in the country.

Iran's official news agency says Tehran authorities have taken down anti-American billboards just days after ultra-conservatives erected them in an apparent effort to discredit U.S. negotiators in talks with the new Iranian leadership.

A tribe residing in a disputed border region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan held a unilateral vote Sunday to decide which country to join.

Special Representative and head of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) Martin Kobler.

After spending months lobbying United Nations member-states, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia last week rejected a coveted seat on the Security Council in protest over the failure of the world body to overthrow the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad and its support for the ongoing P5+1 negotiations with Iran. Last month, after President Obama expressed openness to negotiating a deal with newly elected President Hassan Rouhani in Iran, the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud bin-Faisal, cancelled his own scheduled speech before the General Assembly, an unprecedented action.

Pakistan’s U.N. ambassador has expressed his government’s opposition to the use of drones by the United States inside his country, saying it violates Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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A senior U.N. official says the dire humanitarian situations in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo are being overshadowed by the crisis in Syria. The official was part of an assessment mission to both African countries by the directors of emergencies for seven major U.N. agencies and two private organizations.

A US Air Force RQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicle.