Reuters - The United States said on Sunday that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands that it halt sensitive nuclear activities.

Reuters - The United States said on Sunday that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands that it halt sensitive nuclear activities.

Reuters - Myanmar's military junta has invited a U.N. investigator to make his first visit next week so he can assess the human rights situation in the Southeast Asian country, the United Nations said on Friday.

Reuters - Darfur rebels on Friday criticized a U.N. Security Council resolution linking a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to African concerns at a move to indict Sudan's president for war crimes.

Reuters - A United Nations investigation into the March storming of a courthouse by U.N. and NATO troops in northern Kosovo criticizes the force for rushing in, diplomats briefed on its contents said on Friday.

AP - Iran sought but failed to win support from nonaligned nations this week for lifting U.N. sanctions and kicking the U.N. Security Council out of the dispute over its nuclear program, U.S. officials said Friday.

AFP/HO/File - The UN Security Council has renewed the mandate of UN-African Union troops in Darfur, despite an abstention from United States over a call to defer indictment of Sudan's president for genocide.

OneWorld.net - UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 (IPS) - As the U.N. Security Council debated the wording of a resolution extending the peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan for another year, a coalition of human rights groups and NGOs criticised the world body and the international community for failing to back up the mission with basic equipment.

AFP - The Security Council has met to extend the mandate of UN-African Union troops in Darfur amid last-minute haggling over African concerns about a possible indictment of Sudan's president on genocide charges.

AP - The U.N. Security Council approved another year of peacekeeping in Sudan's bloodied Darfur region Thursday night, but the U.S. abstained from a vote that reflected sharp divisions over genocide charges against the Sudanese president.

Reuters - The U.N. Security Council renewed the mandate for peacekeepers in Darfur on Thursday in a resolution that Washington criticized for raising concerns about moves to indict Sudan's president for genocide.

AFP - The Security Council on Thursday renewed the mandate of UN-African Union troops in Darfur, but the United States abstained over an indirect reference to a call to defer a possible indictment of Sudan's president on genocide charges.

Reuters - The U.N. Security Council is set to renew a mandate for peacekeepers in Darfur on Thursday in a resolution that will echo African concerns at efforts to indict Sudan's president for war crimes there.

AFP - The new UN Human Rights rapporteur for Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana, will conduct his first mission next week after getting the go-ahead from the military junta, the United Nations said Thursday.