The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on May 26 on a push by the United States to update and strengthen sanctions on North Korea following a string of ballistic missile launches by Pyongyang. The United States, which holds the rotating United Nations Security Council presidency for this month, announced plans for the vote Wednesday. It comes as officials…

The United States has “credible information” that Russian forces executed Ukrainians who were trying to surrender near Donetsk, a U.S. official said Wednesday. “We now have credible information that a Russian military unit operating in the vicinity of Donetsk executed Ukrainians who were attempting to surrender, rather than take them into custody,” Ambassador-at-Large for Global…

The United States would propose a resolution “to update and strengthen” U.N. sanctions in response to North Korea’s “increasingly dangerous provocations,” U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Friday. North Korea confirmed Thursday that it test-fired its biggest-yet intercontinental ballistic missile, Hwasong-17, as leader Kim Jong-un ordered the hermit nation to prepare for…