United Nations

UN approves resolution to commemorate the 1995 Srebrenica genocide annually over Serb opposition

Abhinav Thawait

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations approved a resolution Thursday establishing an annual day to commemorate the 1995 genocide ...

Spain, Ireland and Norway say they will recognize a Palestinian state. Why does that matter?

Abhinav Thawait

Spain, Ireland and Norway said Wednesday that they would recognize a Palestinian state on May 28, a step toward a ...

U.N. halts all food distribution in Rafah after running out of supplies in Gaza city

Abhinav Thawait

CAIRO (AP) — Israel has addressed many of President Joe Biden’s concerns over its long-simmering plan to carry out a ...

UN Security Council rejects Russia-backed resolution on banning weapons in space

Elaine Hadley

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States said Monday that Russia last week launched a satellite that could be part ...

Iran helicopter crash: President Raisi, the supreme leader’s protege, dies at 63

Abhinav Thawait

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line protégé of the country’s supreme leader who helped ...

Israel-Hamas war: Gaza aid driven across new US-built pier. Challenges remain

Abhinav Thawait

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trucks carrying badly needed aid for the Gaza Strip rolled across a newly built U.S. pier and ...

The top UN court is holding hearings on the Israeli military’s incursion into Rafah

Abhinav Thawait

THE HAGUE (AP) — The United Nations’ top court opens two days of hearings on Thursday into a request from ...

No humanitarian crisis in Rafah, Netanyahu says

Abhinav Thawait

Watch: Israeli protesters attack Gaza-bound food trucks Food aid trucks headed to Gaza from Jordan were attacked by Israeli protesters, ...

UN cuts estimates of women, children deaths in Gaza in half

Abhinav Thawait

U.S. pause Israel bomb shipments amid threatened attack on Rafah In a CNN interview, President Joe Biden said that the ...

More than 100,000 flee Rafah as fighting breaks out: Israel-Hamas updates

Abhinav Thawait

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution Friday to give Palestine more “rights and privileges” and called on the ...