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Ban Ki-moon, United Nations secretary general, announces that five-member panel will investigate attacks on more than 100 UN facilities and death of 11 of its staff members during Gaza conflict; announcement defies Israeli demands to wait until conclusion of its own government inquiry.|

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Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States had made “no determinations” about efforts toward Security Council resolutions on the Middle East.|

Obama administration tells United Nations panel in Geneva that United States tortured terrorism suspects after September 11 attacks but that it has since taken steps to prevent any future use of unlawful, coercive interrogation techniques; admission before UN panel amounts to government’s most formal acknowledgment of torture before international community.|

Key points in the terror group’s rapid growth and the slowing of its advance as it faces international airstrikes and local resistance.|

Rights groups have called on the United Nations to halt its counternarcotics aid to the country because of its mandatory death penalty for drug crimes.|

United Nations' 2014 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons finds that one in three human trafficking victims is a child, most victims are female and that traffickers operate with little fear of prosecution; study shows that, in general, trafficking has increasingly become a problem around the world.|

Analysis of United Nations' Global Status Report on Violence Prevention 2014 reveals that far more homicides are committed with firearms in the Americas than in any other part of the world, in large part due to lax gun laws.|

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A list of resources from around the Web about the United Nations as selected by researchers and editors of The New York Times.|

United Nations' World Food Program says it will resume aid to Syrian refugees after emergency appeal through social media, which resulted in millions of dollars in contributions.|

Key points in the terror group’s rapid growth and the slowing of its advance as it faces international airstrikes and local resistance.|

United Nations Security Council unanimously adopts statement asking all countries to thwart foreign-born militants, whose campaigns are convulsing Middle East, by blocking sale of smuggled oil and antiquities Islamic State is using to help finance itself.|

Integrated Regional Information Networks will restart operations in January 2015 as independent, nonprofit media venture with promise of $25 million over 15 years from Jynwel Foundation, which is owned by family of Hong Kong-based investor Jho Low; IRIN was operated under wing of United Nations office that coordinates humanitarian aid, until UN decided midyear that it would stop financing agency on Dec 31.|

United Nations panel monitoring compliance with international Convention Against Torture treaty presses American delegation in Geneva, expressing skepticism about American law enforcement and national security practices; during two-day presentation United States acknowledges it tortured terrorism suspects after Sept 11 attacks, but emphasizes that government has since tightened its rules.|

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