The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to send some 3,000 additional U.N. peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help prevent a new war in the country’s east. The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, known by its French acronym MONUC, is the world’s biggest U.N. peacekeeping operation and will be increased temporarily to just over 20,000 troops and police once the reinforcements are deployed. (Full Story)