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United Nations: The Islamic State extremist group has claimed responsibility for executing at least 30 people for sodomy, the head of an worldwide gay rights organisation said today at the first-ever UN Security Council meeting spotlighting what organisers called the...

The United States proposed on Wednesday implementing a United Nations arms embargo on South Sudan and further targeted sanctions from September 6 unless President Salva Kiir signs a peace deal to end the country’s 20-month conflict.

United States government said President Kiir should join the rebel leader, Machar, by signing the peace agreement to end the 20-month long civil war in the country. The conflict pits Kiir’s ethnic Dinka people against Machar’s Nuer.

Presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) unloaded Tuesday on real-estate mogul Donald Trump, using some of his harshest rhetoric yet.

Rebel spokesman Stephen Par Kuol told VOA this earlier this week that Kiir refused to sign Monday’s peace deal because he is afraid of power sharing.

Larry Morris, wait to present the U.S. flag to Marines now stationed in Cuba, during the raising of the U.S. flag over the newly reopened embassy in Havana, Cuba.

An article on Salon this week provides some insight on how Trump’s immigration stance and the willingness of so many Republicans to feed into it could bring about the GOP’s demise. Let them take me to court if they want, but by then American forces will have...

That article cited unnamed sources who said that the State Department and U.S. mission to the United Nations had long been open to punitive measures, but that opposition from the National Security Council was responsible for blocking such action from coming sooner.

More than six in ten Republicans are favorable towards each of those men; the difference between them and Trump is that far fewer hold unfavorable opinions of these three candidates than are negative towards Trump.

Bush isn’t the first presidential candidate to take fire from Trump’s Instagram account. I want to save the middle class…The hedge fund guys didn’t build this country.

Christie’s marketing campaign has emphasised his candor, with “Telling It Like It Is” as his slogan.

Mr Kerry conceded that the US policies of the past had not led to the democracy in Cuba that they had sought.

“We will continue to urge the Cuban government to fulfill its obligations under UN and Inter-American human rights covenants – obligations shared by the United States and every other country in the Americas”, Kerry said.

Emily Benavides, a spokeswoman for the Bush campaign who also worked for the HLN back when the memo was published, emphasized the candidate’s comments about his personal experience with the immigration issue and his commitment to pursuing reform in an email to HuffPost.

At the very least, Donald Trump is for now, setting the GOP agenda and it seems pushing some of his opponents to follow.