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Middle East crisis: Live updates on UNRWA, Gaza and more

·October 30, 2024·1 min read

Our live coverage ranged from the Security Council and UN Headquarters to dispatches from across the Middle East as tensions escalated and the war on Gaza and Lebanon continued in the shadows of a new Israeli ban on UNRWA, the agency serving nearly six million Palestine refugees in the region....

Middle East crisis: Live updates from the Security Council and UN across the region

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·October 29, 2024·1 min read

We will be following the latest breaking news over the day, including from UN staff on the ground, dispatches from Gaza, Lebanon and the wider region, and the Israeli Knesset’s vote to outlaw the work of UN Palestine refugee agency UNRWA. We also recap the emergency Security Council meeting on...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Gangs ‘spreading terror and fear’ across Haiti

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·October 22, 2024·1 min read

The UN Security Council on Tuesday heard briefings from top officials on the Haiti crisis and although gangs continue spreading terror and fear there is a “glimmer of hope” that stability can return to the Caribbean island nation in the months ahead, said the UN Special Representative, following years of...

Nearly half the world’s 1.1 billion poor live in conflict settings

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·October 17, 2024·3 min read

The finding comes in the latest update to the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), jointly published by the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Conflict disrupting lives The MPI was launched in 2010 and...

WORLD FOOD DAY LIVE: Finding solutions to global hunger

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·October 16, 2024·1 min read

Everyone has a right to food. World Food Day, marked annually on 16 October, is being celebrated in more than 150 countries and over 50 languages. Stay tuned throughout the day as we take you to Rome for the main event at 10am local time at the headquarters of the...

MIDDLE EAST: Updating live from the Security Council and across the UN

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·October 11, 2024·1 min read

As turmoil roils the Middle East, senior UN officials provided humanitarian updates on the impact of continued fighting in Lebanon and Gaza, while many ambassadors in the Security Council offered strong support for the “indispensable” role of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, which has come under increasing attack in the...

MIDDLE EAST: Live updates from the Security Council and across the UN

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·October 10, 2024·1 min read

As turmoil roils the Middle East, senior UN officials provided humanitarian updates on the impact of continued fighting in Lebanon and Gaza, while many ambassadors in the Security Council offered strong support for the “indispensable” role of the Palestine refugee agency, UNRWA, which has come under increasing attack in the...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: End ‘sickening cycle’ of escalation across the Middle East, Guterres urges

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·October 3, 2024·1 min read

UN humanitarians launched a $426 million appeal for Lebanon on Tuesday to support one million people uprooted by widespread Israeli shelling amid what Israel has described as a “limited, localised and targeted” ground operation into Lebanon, across the UN-patrolled line of separation....

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Humanitarian system in Gaza ‘hanging by a thread’, says Guterres

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·September 28, 2024·1 min read

The UN Security Council debated the current situation on the ground in war-torn Gaza on Friday, where Israeli strikes have killed more than 41,500 Palestinians amid mass displacement and stymied humanitarian efforts as Israel continues hampering the entry of lifesaving aid. UN News app users can catch up with our...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Russia ‘can only be forced into peace’ says Zelenskyy

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·September 25, 2024·1 min read

The UN Security Council is meeting for a high level briefing on the Ukraine war. The UN Secretary-General told foreign ministers and ambassadors that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine since 2014, when Moscow took Crimea, was “a clear violation of the UN Charter.” We’ll have full coverage as it happens, and...

LIVE: World leaders adopt game-changing UN Pact for the Future by consensus

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·September 22, 2024·1 min read

World leaders are at UN Headquarters in New York this Sunday where world leaders have just adopted the Pact for the Future by consensus – with a small group of just seven countries holding out, having failed to pass a last-minute amendment. The centrepiece of the Summit of the Future...

LIVE: General Assembly resumes emergency special session on Palestine

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·September 17, 2024·1 min read

Ambassadors in the UN General Assembly again discussed on Monday the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza and the critical work of the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, which is facing an existential threat, hearing a briefing by its Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, and holding a heated debate on the US...