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A heated debate was sparked after the United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said that 14,000 babies in Gaza would die within 48 hours unless aid reached them.
A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,
The mishap is a major setback to the North Korean leader’s dream of modernizing his country’s outdated naval fleet.
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For context: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he "will take control of all of Gaza", but will stop the offensive if Hamas releases Israeli hostages and lays down arms. Israel also says the UK, France and Canada, who urged Israel to change their course of action in Gaza, are standing on the "wrong side of history".
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Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country and urging the world body to hold North Korea’s leader accountable for gross human rights violations.
Global momentum to prohibit and regulate “killer robots” seems to be building, as evidenced by numerous countries’ participation in the first United Nations General Assembly meeting on autonomous weapons systems.
Tom Fletcher tells the BBC five aid trucks allowed into Gaza yesterday have not yet reached people on the ground.
The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction.