KUALA LUMPUR, July 21 — Malaysia, together with Asean members, is proposing reforms to the veto power held by the five permanent members (P5) of the United Nations Security Council, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Hasan.

GAZA/CAIRO — Israel pounded the Gaza Strip from north to south on Saturday in an expanded phase of its two-month-old attack against the Palestinians, after the United States wielded its UN Security Council veto to shield its ally from a global demand for a ceasefire.

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 — Palestine’s United Nations (UN) envoy Riyad al-Mansour slammed the UN Security Council’s failure to adopt a draft resolution seeking a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza on Friday, Anadolu Agency (AA) reported.