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Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Serry briefs the Security Council.

The Obama administration on Wednesday formally acknowledged the killing of four Americans in drone strikes. This came on the eve of a speech by President Barack Obama about the legal principles, since 2009, supporting use of drones against terrorist suspects, and about detention policies.

In Latin America and the Caribbean there are approximately 50 million indigenous peoples, about 10% of the total population.

Delivering food to people like these kids in Syria is getting harder and more dangerous every day.

A senior Obama administration official says the White House had no knowledge of misdeeds being committed by America’s tax collecting agency - one of several scandals engulfing the administration.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his concern about provocations and tensions on the Korean Peninsula following reports that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) launched short-range guided missiles into the sea on Saturday.

The Nigerian military says it has killed 14 Boko Haram militants and arrested 20 others. The military says three soldiers died in the fighting Sunday and another is missing.

A man stands outside his destroyed home in Baga, Borno State, Nigeria, following heavy fighting between military forces from Nigeria, Niger and Chad, and Boko Haram.

Wide view of the Security Council.

South Korea says North Korea has fired three short-range missiles into the East Sea -- also known as the Sea of Japan.