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Security Council voting to approve a 12,600-strong UN peacekeeping operation to take over from the African-led mission in Mali on 1 July 2013.

AMISOM troops serving in Belet Weyne, Somalia.

Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman briefs the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East.

Woman voting in the Hamdallaye area of Conakry, the capital of Guinea in June 2010.

South Korea has summoned Japan's ambassador in Seoul to protest recent visits by Japanese lawmakers and officials to a controversial shrine seen by many as a symbol of Tokyo's colonial past.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov offered starkly different views of the Syrian civil war Tuesday, after meeting at NATO headquarters.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the United Nations Security Council Tuesday condemned, in the strongest terms, a deadly attack on the French Embassy in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, affirming the responsibility of Libyan authorities to ensure protection for diplomatic premises.

U.S. lawmakers have raised concerns about the sharing of intelligence among federal enforcement agencies, as investigators continue to piece together last week's deadly bombing of the Boston Marathon.