Like Korach’s rebellion, the UN Security Council in its current form allows self-serving power to triumph over the collective good. It has become an obsolete, irrelevant impediment that should be ...

The Security Council has five permanent members, including the United States, and 10 non-permanent members representing geographic regions. The non-permanent members serve two years, with half of ...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) speaks in an emergency session The five permanent members of the council -- the U.S., the U.K., France, Russia, and China -- are joined by representatives ...

The UN Security Council veto makes it virtually impossible to uphold its own charter when it comes to acts of aggression such ...

Watch live as the United Nations General Assembly votes to elect five new non-permanent members of the Security Council. The 15-member council consists of five permanent, veto-empowered members — ...

W HEN THE Charter of the United Nations was signed, 80 years ago this week, President Harry Truman emphasised that the document’s value lay only in the will of governments to use it. “The job”, he ...

The council still includes five veto-wielding permanent members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — and 10 elected members from the U.N.’s different regional groups.

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday elected five new non-permanent members to the Security Council for the 2026–2027 term. Bahrain, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Liberia ...

Five countries have won seats on the United Nations Security Council in uncontested elections. They will start serving two-year terms in January. The 193-member General Assembly held a secret ...

The United Nations Security Council met on Friday to discuss the war between Israel and Iran, which has entered its second ...