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Western governments seem to be in no doubt that president Bashir Al Assad is responsible for what appears to be a deadly Chemical Weapons attack in Idlib Province which has killed dozens of people including at least eleven children and injured hundreds more. The foreign secretary Boris Johnson said if proved then it is a war crime. The Un Security Council is holding an Emergency Meeting tomorrow to discuss the attack. If assad is the culprit, something the Syrian Regime denies, then it is surely evidence that he believes he can act with impunity not least because russia is his ally, and the wh...

A United States resolution to extend the mandate of an expert panel which monitors sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was vetoed by Russia in the Security Council on Thursday. This in effect abolishes the monitoring ...

AFL-CIO leadership cited a procedural rule to tell the San Francisco Labor Council it couldn’t even debate a resolution on BDS.

The fact that tougher sanctions did pass the u.n. security council last week, what does that tell you about the willingness of other countries in the region to really put the pressure on north korea? >> well, i give the administration credit for passing that sanctions resolution. i think it was a really important demonstration of international unity at a critical time. the question is, sanctions are not just an end, they're a means to another end. and that's a negotiation. whether or not both sides at this point or all sides, the chinese, the russians, the south koreans, and the japanese are w...

Menswear protest is impossible. newly released documents make that assertion. previous estimates of those skilled in the 1989 protests arranged in the hundreds to more than 1,000. china is a big worry for the pentagon, so are many other suspects. here's lucas tomlinson. >> the u.n. security council voted to crank up sanctions on the rogue communist regime. the first set of sanctions instructor's long-range missile test last month. which flew higher and longer than any in its history. pyongyang responded in a statement sunday. >> translator: redefined the sanctions resolution rigged up by the u...