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UNITED NATIONS – The U.N.’s special envoy for Syria is briefing the Security Council on Tuesday after angering Syrian opposition leaders last week with his comments that President Bashar Assad remains part of the solution in reducing violence in the nearly four-year conflict. Staffan de Mistura will speak to the …

ANKARA, Turkey – Turkish legislators have scuffled for a second day in parliament over a new security bill which critics say aims to crush dissent. Ruling and opposition parties’ lawmakers traded punches and pushed each other during a late-night session on Wednesday. One opposition legislator fell down a set of …

UNITED NATIONS – The United States is proposing the creation of a U.N. sanctions committee for the South Sudan crisis and says an arms embargo is possible if the warring sides can’t stick to a peace deal. A draft resolution circulated among U.N. Security Council members on Tuesday doesn’t explicitly …