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President Joe Biden has warned of consequences if Pyongyang escalates tensions amid stalled nuclear negotiations.

That's where it was listed with heroin and several other opioids.

His speech before world leaders had to compete with news from Washington of a growing movement by Democrats to impeach him.

HORLIVKA, UKRAINE (AP) — Ukraine's acting president (Oleksandr Turchynov) has called for the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping troops in the east of the country, where pro-Russian insurgents have occupied buildings in nearly 10 cities...

The presidents of America and Iran may meet briefly next week for the first time in what would be a symbolic but significant step toward easing their countries' tense relationship.

STANBUL (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on Syria to stop its attacks, saying U.N. observers monitoring the ceasefire were not there to watch the killings of innocent people. Ban was speaking Thursday at a summit of the Alliance of Civilizations, a forum promoting understanding between the Western and Islamic worlds, days after more than 100 people were massacred in Syria's cen

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran says it will allow U.N. inspectors access to a secret military complex where the U.N. nuclear agency suspects secret atomic work has been carried out. A statement issued by the country's permanent envoy to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran says it will allow U...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief says the U.S. government must close the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama promised a year ago. Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, says "the facility continues to exist and individuals remain arbitrarily detained — indefinitely — in clear breach of international law...