The United Nations Security Council was set to meet over the killings of more than 90 villagers, including 32 children, which its top officials have sharply denounced.

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Syria Denies Responsibility in Brutal Attack

Syrian opposition organizations on Saturday accused government forces of carrying out a massacre in a village near Homs, leaving some 100 people dead, many of them children.

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Syrian Activists Claim Death Toll in Village Soars

The United Nations treaty that governs the world’s oceans is undergoing one of its periodic resurrections in Congress.

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Law of the Sea Treaty Is Found on Capitol Hill, Again

The leader of the United Nations agency said on Tuesday that he expects to sign a deal “quite soon” on an inquiry into potential military applications of Tehran’s nuclear program.

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U.N. Nuclear Monitor Says Deal With Iran Is Near

Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, a shadowy Libyan intelligence officer who was convicted in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 270 people and whose release from prison in 2009 sparked international uproar, died Sunday in Tripoli, the Associated Press reported. He was 60. Read full article > >

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The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Friday he will travel to Iran over the weekend on a previously unscheduled visit to try to resolve an impasse over access to Iranian nuclear documents and scientists. Read full article > >

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U.N. nuclear chief to make unscheduled visit to Tehran

The United Nations adopts global guidelines to protect local communities when rich countries buy up land in developing nations.

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UN adopts ‘land grab’ guidelines

Agreement on additional international action in Syria appeared more remote than ever following a massive suicide bombing on Thursday in Damascus , as foreign leaders pointed fingers of responsibility for the violence in opposite directions. Read full article > >

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Suicide attack in Syria makes international action less likely

It may have been the worst-timed, and most tin-eared, magazine article in decades. “Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic — the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies,” writer Joan Juliet Buck began her profile of Syria’s first lady in Vogue last year. Amid descriptions of Assad’s “energetic grace” and Christian Laboutin shoes, Buck wrote: “The 35-year-old first lady’s central mission is to change the mind-set of six million Syrians under eighteen, encourage them to engage in what she calls ‘active citizenship.’ ” Read full article > >

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Vogue’s flattering article on Syria’s first lady is scrubbed from Web

THE HAGUE—For the thousands of young men who had their limbs hacked off, the verdict will come way too late. Too late as well for the teenage boys sent into battle high on dope. And for the pubescent girls turned into sex slaves for rebel warriors, who will harbor unspeakable memories until they die, no matter what the court decides. Read full article > >

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Charles Taylor verdict expected in international court’s war-crimes trial

Three members of the Syrian security services were killed in and around Damascus on Tuesday, one of several indications that the cease-fire arranged under United Nations auspices continued to wobble.

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Violence in Syria’s Capital Even With a Cease-Fire

Syrian government forces engaged in an extended game of cat and mouse against United Nations observers, with the military attacking cities like Hama after the monitors left.

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U.N. Observers in Syria Do Not Deter Attacks

BEIRUT — As Syria’s revolution drags into its second year amid few signs that a U.N.-mandated cease-fire plan will end the violence, evidence is mounting that Islamist extremists are seeking to commandeer what began as a non-ideological uprising aimed at securing greater political freedom. Read full article > >

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Fears of extremism taking hold in Syria as violence continues

Demonstrators were angered that United Nations observers said they would not circulate on Fridays, when mass rallies that are suppressed by the government are held.

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Syrian Protesters Mock Cease-Fire and U.N. Observers

As the United Nations and Syria reach a deal that will set the ground rules for UN observers in the country, people in Idlib Province have accused the government of breaking its promises and attacking civilian areas.

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VIDEO: Witnessing Syria’s broken promises