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The resolution requires states to make it a serious crime for their nationals to join militant groups.

In the first review in four years, UN confirms that the ozone layer is "well on track" for recovery.

Over €97m will be spent on budget support to Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Eight of the nineteen people were beheaded for non-violent offences including sorcery and drug smuggling.

The HSE are investigating whether a man from Co Donegal died as a result of the virus.

Saudi Arabia is embroiled in a new controversy after donating £60m to the United Nations.

Kiev says black boxes' data shows Malaysia Airlines plane was downed by a missile.

UN Security Councils urge members to donate pledged cash and avert 'catastrophic food insecurity' in the country.

Israeli strike on UN-run school holding Palestinian refugees wounds over 100 Palestinians.

President Mahmoud Abbas requests international protection from escalating Israeli air strikes in Gaza Strip.

North Korea lodges a formal complaint over the comedy film about a plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un.

Harry Potter actress Emma Watson made UN Ambassador for gender equality.

ATT will come into force with the backing of 10 more countries.

UN officials say 4.5m internally displaced increase caused by Syrian civil war.

Russia's 'next targets to annex' are outlined in alleged telephone recording between Russian Ambassadors Igor Chubarov and Sergei Bakharev

North Korean statement dismisses recent UN report and warns United States to 'mind its own business'.

World Food Programme does not have enough money to feed refugees full meal.

British Virgin Islands fourth in global Unctad list for foreign direct investment in 2013.

As world leaders meet to discuss the future of Syria, the prospects of success are low.

Blast in Hermel kills five as UN-backed court hears case against Hezbollah members

Russia has vetoed for the second time a statement from UN condemning Syrian government attacks on Aleppo civilians.

Nouri al-Maliki urges militants with al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and Levante to give up.

UN says 20% of Central African Republic's people are internally displaced due to fighting between Muslims and Christians

All but essential United Nations staff flown out of country.

UN secretary general tours areas of Philippines devastated by hurricane.

Conflict between Seleka and Anti-Balaka militias claims more lives than UN estimate.

Kim Kyong-hui, the aunt of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is named as a member of a prestigious committee, indicating she remains inside the regime's inner circle - so far.

Pyongyang media give North Korea's young dictator same appellation as his predecessor.

French Paratroopers Nicolas Vokaer and Antoine Le Quinio killed in Central African Republic as President Hollande visits

Kurdistan region of Hassakeh will receive food and aid via airbridge from Iraq.