A UN court has increased the sentence for former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic from 40 years to life for war crimes and genocide. Photo: AP/Peter Dejong

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UN court hands life sentence to Bosnian Serb leader over massacres

UN judges have sentenced former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic to life in prison on appeal, ending one of the most momentous trials over massacres and other atrocities committed during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

 

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New UN sanctions to "starve" North Korean regime

“We are not looking for war” with North Korea, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said after the UN Security Council unanimously passed new sanctions she said would “starve the regime” into stopping its nuclear program.

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North Korea "begging for war": US envoy

North Korea’s leader is “begging for war,” the US ambassador said at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, as members called for punishing the country with even stronger sanctions for its powerful nuclear test.

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Sweltering 2016 to set heat record

The world is set to notch up a new heat record in 2016 after a sizzling 2015 as global warming stokes more floods and rising sea levels, the UN weather agency has warned.