UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council has approved another year of peacekeeping in Sudan's Darfur region despite sharp divisions over genocide charges against the Sudanese president.
The United States supports the mission but abstained from the council's 14-0 vote Thursday night.
It objects to language in the resolution that notes that the African Union wants the council to freeze the International Criminal Court's prosecution of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
U.S. spokesman Richard Grenell says that language sends the wrong signal to a man who presided over genocide.
The joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force took over duties in Darfur in January.
