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UN chief condemns US-Israeli attacks on Iran during emergency Security Council meeting
The United Nations chief condemned the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and called for an immediate return to negotiations “to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink.”

UN Security Council members blast Israel’s West Bank plans on eve of Trump’s Board of Peace meeting
The high-level U.N. session in New York was originally scheduled for Thursday but was moved up after President Donald Trump announced the first Board of Peace meeting for the same...

Donald Trump’s wide ambitions for Board of Peace spark new support for the United Nations
President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to sidestep the United Nations through his new Board of Peace appears to have inadvertently backfired after major world powers rejected U.S. aspirations for it...

UN approves the Trump administration plan for Gaza’s future
The U.N. Security Council on Monday approved a U.S. plan for Gaza that authorizes an international stabilization force to provide security in the devastated territory and envisions a possible future...

US and UN sanction former Haitian security head, gang leader for aiding gang coalition
The United States and the United Nations slapped sanctions on the former head of Haitian presidential security and the leader of a Haitian gang on Friday for their roles in...

In UN address, Russian foreign minister says any aggression from Europe will be met with a ‘decisive response’
Russia’s top diplomat is insisting to world leaders that Russia has no intention of attacking Europe.

UN assembly votes overwhelmingly to back two-state solution to Israel-Palestinian conflict
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday to support a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict and urge Israel to commit to a Palestinian state, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

Journalist Mariam Dagga’s final images show the hospital where she was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza
The last photos taken by Mariam Dagga show the damaged stairwell outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip where she would be killed by an Israeli strike moments later.

What to expect, and what not to, at the UN meeting on an Israel-Palestinian two-state solution
The U.N. General Assembly is bringing high-level officials together this week to promote a two-state solution to the decades-old Israel-Palestinian conflict.

UN to reduce staff in Gaza, blaming Israel for a strike that killed its employee
The United Nations said Monday it will “reduce its footprint” in the Gaza Strip after an Israeli tank strike hit one of its compounds last week, killing one staffer from...
