A U.N. peacekeeper from Pakistan was killed on Thursday in the Central African Republic during a flareup of violence engulfing the capital of Bangui after months of relative calm.

Another soldier was severely wounded during the ambush on a joint Pakistani-Bangladeshi convoy and seven others suffered slight injuries, U.N. officials said.

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil accused on Thursday Israel of “manipulating stability and using the takfiri attacks to change the balance of powers,” considering that the resistance's operation in the Shebaa Farms occurred on Lebanese soil.

“The ministerial statement states the liberation of the Shebaa Farms and the occupied Lebanese territories with all the possible means,” Bassil said in an interview with al-Akhbar newspaper.

A Senegalese peacekeeper was killed Tuesday as a U.N. camp in northern Mali came under rocket fire in an attack blamed on a jihadist leader driven from the country by French troops.

The U.N. Security Council has strongly condemned the "heinous and cowardly" murder of British hostage Alan Henning, shown in a video with an Islamic State fighter. 

In a unanimous statement issued late Friday, the 15-member council said the "continued acts of barbarism perpetrated by ISIL do not intimidate them, but rather stiffen their resolve" to counter the jihadists.

The Palestinians are asking the U.N. Security Council to set November 2016 as the deadline for ending the Israeli occupation, according to a draft resolution obtained by Agence France-Presse on Wednesday. 

The draft, circulated to council members, follows Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' address last week to the U.N. General Assembly in which he called for a fast-track to statehood.

North Korea's foreign minister on Saturday berated the U.N. Security Council as a forum of lies and double standards, in the first U.N. address by a top Pyongyang official in 15 years.

Foreign Minister Ri Su Yong called for reforming the U.N. Security Council, which has imposed tough sanctions on North Korea over its suspect nuclear program and missile launches.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday expressed support for Iraq's new government as it confronts Islamist fighters.

The 15-member council adopted a statement backing Iraq at a meeting chaired by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and attended by some 35 countries in a show of solidarity for Baghdad's anti-jihadist stance.

The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on the Ebola crisis Thursday to find ways to scale up the global response to the epidemic, the U.S. ambassador announced.

"It is crucial that council members discuss the status of the epidemic, confer on a coordinated international response and begin the process of marshaling our collective resources to stop the spread of the disease," U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power said Monday.

The U.N. Security Council on Sunday condemned the "heinous and cowardly murder" of British aid worker David Haines by an Islamic State militant.

"This crime is a tragic reminder of the increasing dangers humanitarian personnel face every day in Syria," the council emphasized in a statement, adopted unanimously by its 15 members.

The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. has said it was the responsibility of the international community to support Lebanon against Islamic extremists, who last month overran a border town in the northeast.

“It’s our responsibility as an international community to join in solidarity with Lebanon as it now deals with … one of now what are becoming innumerable manifestations of the terror inflicted by ISIL,” Samantha Power, who is the current president of the U.N. Security Council, said.