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A draft resolution calling for a 30-day humanitarian cease-fire for emergency aid deliveries and medical evacuations has so far been stalled by threat of a Russian veto.

Instead of looking back to an age of empire, Russia should accept Ukraine's borders and move on, Kenya's ambassador told a session of the U.N. Security Council.

The U.N. World Food Programme received this year's Nobel Peace Prize for its work combating global hunger.

A United Nations human rights investigator points to "growing reports and photographic evidence" that security forces have used live ammunition against anti-junta protesters.

The U.S. has always opposed the annual U.N. resolution calling for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, but it abstained this time. The White House opposes the embargo and has taken steps to ease it.

A fraud probe into absentee ballots in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District has delayed the certification of Republican Mark Harris. His victory over Democrat Dan McCready is in question.

It's the latest in a spate of deadly attacks in a region that has seen escalating tensions between ethnic groups. The U.N. says a group of armed men poured into the village Sunday evening.

The United Nations human rights agency says it has reports that hundreds of people attempting to leave rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria, have been prevented from doing so by rebel forces. It also says hundreds of men who left have gone missing after reaching regime-controlled areas and are believed to have been imprisoned or killed.

Ukraine says that in the past 24 hours alone, 14 of its soldiers have died and 172 were injured. The leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia are trying to salvage a cease-fire.

A stretch limousine failed to stop at an intersection and crashed in upstate New York on Saturday. The driver, all 17 passengers and two pedestrians were killed.