Qatar said it informed the UN Security Council and secretary-general of violation of its airspace by four Bahraini fighter jets, Qatar News Agency announced on Thursday, December 24.

Bahrain sent a memorandum to the UN Security Council in which it denied claims that military aircraft belonging to the United Arab Emirates violated the Qatari airspace.

A United Nations Security Council meeting on Friday to discuss recent protests in Iran turned into criticism of the United States for requesting to meet on what some member states said was an internal issue for Tehran.

Yemen is facing a mass famine that will affect millions of lives unless the Saudi-led coalition ends its blockade and allows aid deliveries into the country, the UN aid chief warned Wednesday.

Equatorial Guinea was for the first time elected to the UN Security Council on Friday during a vote that saw Ivory Coast, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Peru and Poland also win seats at the top world table.

It isn�t much good preaching about human rights and then embracing a policy conveying the message that if a country has �strong military ties� with the United States then it is of no consequence if it persists in �torture and abuse��

A Saudi Arabia-led military campaign in Yemen violated international humanitarian law with a so-called "double tap" air strike on a funeral gathering in the rebel-held capital Sanaa, United Nations sanctions monitors told the Security Council.