U.N.investigators say militants are responsible for the majority of civilian deaths.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

According to a statement from Lieberman's office, he said U.N.forums give an automatic anti-Israel majority to countries with poor human rights records such as Cuba,Bangladesh, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

It may be hard for the billions of Web users or the optimists of Silicon Valley to believe that an obscure agency of the U.N. can threaten their Internet, but authoritarian regimes are busy lobbying a majority of the U.N. members to vote their way.

WSJ: Crovitz: The U.N.'s Internet Power Grab

Netanyahu has been pushing more settlement expansion ever since the Palestinian leadership petitioned the United Nations for nonmember state status, which it received on November 29 after the majority of U.N. member nations approved it.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

On Thursday night, the foreign ministers of France, Italy and Spain, who together are fielding a majority of the U.N. peacekeepers in the south of the country, held talks with Lebanese leaders, but to no avail.

NPR: Lebanese Parliament Fails to Elect President