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The UN is an international organisation founded after World War II that aims to provide a dialogue platform between countries, fortifying international corporation and preventing future wars. There are currently 193 members led by five permanent members of the Security Council - US, Russia, UK, France and China. The organisation currently has six principal organs: General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Secretariat, International Court of Justice, and the Trusteeship Council.
Attack that killed seven as they sought to provide food amid humanitarian crisis, along with strike on Iran’s mission in Syria, should focus minds on averting further bloodshed
- Canadian police alleged offences occurred between 2018 and 2021, when the accused worked at UN aviation agency ICAO
- Plot included sale of large drones that can carry multiple missiles, in violation of UN sanctions related to the Libyan civil war
On Monday, the Palestinian territory’s Civil Defence agency said health workers had uncovered more than 200 bodies of people killed and buried at Nasser hospital, which was besieged by Israeli troops last month.
An independent review group on the UN agency for Palestinians found some ‘neutrality-related issues’, but it noted Israel had yet to provide evidence for incendiary allegations that staff were members of terrorist organisations.
Since Hamas’ unprecedented October 7 attack on Israel triggered war in Gaza, there have been near-daily cross-border exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Iran-backed Hezbollah.
Islamist bombers hit three churches and three hotels in 2019, killing more than 279 people, but grieving families say they are still awaiting justice.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz commended the United States for casting a veto. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the US veto as ‘unfair, unethical, and unjustified’.
The first global standards specifically covering GenAI and LLM released on Tuesday are a joint effort between Ant Group, Baidu, Tencent, OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia and others.
Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted a year ago, sparking one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine has come under a series of drone attacks since April 7.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the Middle East was ‘on the brink’ and warned members not to further escalate tensions with reprisals against Iran.
Romania’s Jilava prison is ‘a place where you can show the truth about the way prisoners were tortured’, says a former inmate now 80 years old. She heads a group pushing for ex-prisons to become museums.
Running from conscription, enraged by the military and boosted by the sudden, unexpected scent of victory, Myanmar’s youth have decided they have to either flee the country or join the fight.
Fu’s tenure in Brussels coincided with growing tensions over Beijing’s relations with Russia and probes into alleged electric vehicle subsidies.
Reason for evacuation was the almost daily shelling of towns in the region by Russia. Regional governor promised that all those affected would receive humanitarian and legal aid.
Each of the 113,000 Jewish survivors in Israel will receive US$235 to help them cope with the effects of the war in Gaza.
Global monitors have warned that 2024 is shaping up to be the hottest year on record, marked by climate extremes and rising greenhouse gas emissions.
The United Nations migration agency says 38 migrants are dead, and 22 others have been rescued from a shipwreck off Djibouti on a popular route to Yemen.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield will become the most senior US official to visit the demilitarised zone dividing the two Koreas since Vice-President Kamala Harris went there in 2022.
The United Nations Security Council said on Monday that it would decide this month on the Palestinians’ bid for full UN membership, with the long-shot campaign unlikely to survive US opposition.
Rally in Jerusalem calls for remaining hostages held by Hamas in Gaza to be brought home. It came as talks to secure another ceasefire that would include the release hostages resumed in Egypt.
Nicaragua has asked International Court of Justice to hand down preliminary orders, including that Germany ‘immediately suspend its aid to Israel’. Initial hearings start on Monday.
The head of the UN’s atomic watchdog agency condemned a drone strike on one of six nuclear reactors at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine.
Analysts point to social-media disinformation to ‘discredit’ and ‘demonise’ Rohingya refugees in the lead-up to the presidential election in February.
The drone team who killed the aid workers made an ‘operational misjudgment’ after spotting a suspected Hamas gunman shooting from the top of one of the aid trucks.
Top diplomat will meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to discuss Ukraine, the Asia-Pacific and other issues, Russian foreign ministry says.
It is the first time that the UN’s top rights body has taken a position on the bloodiest-ever war in the Palestinian territory.
Washington unveiled plans for the resolution amid reports Moscow could deploy a nuclear weapon or a mock warhead into space as early as this year.
