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United Nations suspends aid convoys in Syria after missiles bombarded trucks carrying wheat and medicines near Alepppo, killing 20 civilians

Aid convoys in Syria have been suspended by the United Nations after missiles bombarded trucks carrying wheat and medicines near Aleppo, killing 20 civilians who were mostly charity workers.Bundles of nappies were left strewn next to the burnt out vehicles destroyed in the strikes, which were yesterday blamed on Russian president Vladimir Putin and described by a UN spokesman as potential war crimes.UN officials said they had been delivering assistance for 78,000 people in the town of Uram al-Kubra on Monday night when 18 trucks and a Red Crescent warehouse were hit.

Pakistan PM Nawaz Sharif address to United Nations

Pakistan's efforts to raise the stakes on the Kashmir issue, including by rattling its nuclear arsenal, has misfired.Verbal finesse could barely couch the dressing down that Sharif, regarded as a stooge of Pakistan's ruling military junta, got from US Secretary of State John Kerry, long seen as sympathetic to Islamabad."The Secretary reiterated the need for Pakistan to prevent all terrorists from using Pakistani territory as safe havens," a State Department readout of Kerry's meeting with Sharif said bluntly amid other diplomatic pabulum.

John Kerry Makes Impassioned Plea at United Nations for Syria Cease-Fire

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an impassioned plea in front of the United Nations Security Council today for all sides in the Syrian conflict to live up to their obligations under a cease-fire agreement.The move may be the best chance for the U.S. to help bring an end to the violence, humanitarian crisis and displacement of thousands of Syrians.Kerry's determination to restore the cease-fire comes in wake of the most flagrant yet of the violations: Two days ago, a United Nations humanitarian aid convoy headed to opposition-held areas of Aleppo was destroyed in a prolonged airstrike.

The United Nations Explained: Its Purpose, Power and Problems

However, many of the rights expressed — to education, to equal pay for equal work, to nationality — remain unrealized.PhotoGeneral Assembly: Prominent Stage, Limited PowersEach fall, the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly becomes the stage where presidents and prime ministers give speeches that can be soaring or clichéd — or they can deliver long, incoherent tirades, such as the one given by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan strongman, in 2009.The event offers plenty of star power, but critics contend that it is little more than a glorified gabfest.

President Obama's Final United Nations Speech

President Barack Obama on Tuesday delivered his final address to the United Nations General Assembly , calling on leaders to work together and criticizing those who seek a "simple rejection of global integration.""I do not believe progress is possible if our desire to preserve our identities gives way to an impulse to dehumanize or dominate another group.If our religion leads us to persecute those of another faith, if we jail or beat people who are gay, if our traditions lead us to prevent girls from going to school, if we discriminate on the basis of race or tribe or ethnicity, then the fragile bonds of civilization will fray," Obama said."The world is too small, we are too packed together, for us to be able to resort to those old ways of thinking."Here are his full remarks from the United Nations headquarters:PRESIDENT OBAMA: Mr. President; Mr. Secretary General; fellow delegates; ladies and gentlemen: As I address this hall as President for the final time, let me recount the progress that we've made these last eight years.