AFTER 18 years as a teacher with an UNRWA-run school, Maryam Shaaban (name changed for safety reasons) fainted upon learning…
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ISRAEL has begun bulldozing buildings inside the headquarters of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in occupied East…
UNITED States President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to withdraw the US from 66 United Nations and international…
THE UN human rights council has given unanimous backing to a fresh, independent investigation into mass killings reported in the…
ISRAEL is engaged in a last-ditch bid to change the wording of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on…
MORE than 1.3 million people who fled the fighting in Sudan have headed home, the United Nations said Friday, pleading…
THE head of the UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo has held talks with Rwanda-backed rebels about…
UNITED Nations chief Guterres says the aid Israel allowed into Gaza amounts to a “teaspoon”, says Israel continues to delay…
A UNITED Nations judge has been jailed for six years and four months for forcing a woman to work as…
UNITED Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has spoken out about the dire humanitarian situation unfolding in the besieged Gaza Strip, saying…
ISRAEL has now restricted Palestinians’ access to roughly two-thirds of Gaza, either by declaring large areas as no-go zones or…
STEPHANE Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, says more temporary housing and other shelters being held up by Israel…
THE United Nations on Tuesday reported deadly clashes in northern South Sudan which killed civilians and left a peacekeeper wounded.…
NIGER’s deposed president Mohamed Bazoum has been “arbitrarily” detained in the west African country with his wife since his ouster…
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including…
THE United Nations says at least 700 people have been killed in intense fighting in Goma, the largest city in…
DEVASTATING flooding in South Sudan is affecting around 1.4 million people, with more than 379,000 displaced, according to a United…
UNITED Nations human rights chief Volker Turk has condemned Israel’s “apparent indifference” to the killing of civilians in Gaza, after…
AT least six health workers have been killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon as Israel has bombarded areas around…
SEVERAL women have taken their lives in Sudan’s central Gezira state after being raped by paramilitary fighters in the brutal…