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A photo taken on 23 January 2024 shows the United Nations Human Rights Council at the UN Offices in Geneva, Switzerland. Photo: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP

UN rights council demands halt of arms sales to Israel

The resolution -- which passed with 28 of the council's 47 member states voting in favour, six opposed and 13 abstaining -- marked the first time the United Nations top rights body has taken a...

Palestinians walk past destroyed houses, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip February 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa/File Photo

Palestinians should seek statehood through direct talks, not at UN, US says

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour speaks with the media following a meeting of the Security Council to vote on a Gaza resolution that demands an immediate ceasefire for the month of Ramadan leading to a permanent sustainable ceasefire, and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages, at U.N. headquarters in New York City, U.S., March 25, 2024. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/ File photo

Palestinians want April vote on full United Nations membership

A border wall is pictured in the town of Marwahin, near the border with Israel, in southern Lebanon, October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani/File Photo

UN observers wounded in blast in south Lebanon, peacekeeping mission says

Women and children wait to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan, February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/File Photo

Sudan needs 'immediate action' on hunger to avert widespread death, UN-backed report says

Demonstrators carry flags and placards during a protest outside an office of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees after it put school teacher Fathi al-Sharif on administrative leave over possible violations of staff conduct regulations, in Beirut, Lebanon March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

UN agency for Palestine refugees suspends teacher in Lebanon

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks to the media, after visiting the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, as Egyptian Red Crescent members coordinate aid for Gaza, at Al Arish Airport, Egypt, March 23, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

UN chief calls blocked aid for Gaza a moral outrage

The United Nations Security Council meets to consider a United States-sponsored resolution calling for a ceasefire during the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, March 22, 2024. REUTERS/Mike Segar

Russia, China veto US bid on Gaza 'ceasefire' at Security Council

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured with a UN logo in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., March 1, 2022. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

UN General Assembly declares 2025 as int'l year of peace, trust

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki speaks at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on "The Middle East, including the Palestinian question" at U.N., headquarters in New York City, US on 25 April 2023. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo

UN Security Council to vote Friday on US resolution on Gaza ceasefire: US

Cracks run through a partially dried-up river bed. Photo: REUTERS

UN sounds 'Red Alert' as world smashes heat records in 2023

FILE PHOTO: Palestinians carry bags of flour they grabbed from an aid truck near an Israeli checkpoint, as Gaza residents face crisis levels of hunger, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, February 19, 2024. REUTERS/Kosay Al Nemer/File Photo

Israel's restrictions to Gaza aid may be war crime, says UN rights office

Palestinian children carry pots as they queue to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen, amid shortages in food supplies, as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip December 14, 2023. REUTERS/Saleh Salem/File Photo

Famine imminent in northern Gaza, says UN-backed report