North Korea fired a missile on Friday (local time) that experts said was capable of hitting Los Angeles and other US cities and the United States and South Korea responded by staging a joint missile exercise.
North Korea carries out public executions on river banks and at school grounds and marketplaces for charges such as stealing copper from factory machines, distributing media from South Korea and prostitution, a report issued on Wednesday (local time) said.
A US-Russian brokered ceasefire for southwest Syria held through the day, a monitor and rebels said on Sunday (local time), in the first peacemaking effort of the war by the US government under President Donald Trump.
Talks to reunify the divided island of Cyprus collapsed in the early hours of Friday (local time), UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said after a stormy final session.
The United States cautioned on Wednesday (local time) it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea's nuclear missile program but said it preferred global diplomatic action against Pyongyang for defying world powers by test launching a ballistic missile that could hit Alaska.
A billionaire real estate developer from Macau will go to trial Monday in Manhattan on charges he bribed senior United Nations officials to support a multibillion-dollar conference centre he hoped to build.
The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, pushed the UN Security Council on Thursday (local time) to focus "all eyes and all pressure" on Russia to try and end the Syrian conflict and pressed for council action even if it faces a veto by Moscow.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has appointed former South Carolina Governor David Beasley to run the Rome-based World Food Programme (WFP), at a time when US President Donald Trump has proposed slashing funding for the world body and its agencies.
