Palestinians took a seat at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. It is a new right accorded to the Palestinian Authority’s delegation despite it not being a full member of the body. In May, an overwhelming majority of the General Assembly asserted that Palestinians deserved full membership. The General Assembly granted the delegation certain n...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye is actively working to facilitate the handover of the body of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, a Turkish-American activist killed by Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank, to her family for burial, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. “We continue the necessary work to deliver the body of our citizen Aysenur [&hell...
Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Flagrant rights violations by Sudan’s warring parties require the deployment of an “independent and impartial force” to protect millions of civilians driven from their homes, UN experts have said. An independent fact-finding mission said it had uncovered “harrowing” violations by bo...
Palestinian Territories – AFP A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced “humanitarian pauses” to allow for large-scale innoculation, a health official told AFP. The campaign was announced after Gaza recorded its first polio case in a quarter of a century last...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The heads of churches in Jerusalem have expressed deep concern over Israel’s war on Gaza, calling on the parties to quickly reach an agreement for a cease-fire. In a statement, the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem said that despite repeated calls for a cease-fire and de-escalation, “the situation in ou...
United Nations, United States – AFP The United Nations said Monday it had to halt the movement of aid and aid workers within Gaza due to a new Israeli evacuation order for the Deir al-Balah area, which had become a hub for its workers. A senior UN official had earlier said that UN operations had […]
Apia, Samoa — AFP UN chief Antonio Guterres has warned that some Pacific territories face “annihilation” from climate-induced cyclones, ocean heatwaves and rising sea levels. On a visit to Samoa, he said the fate of the Pacific islands depended on limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Nea...
GENEVA (AA) – Given the situation in the Gaza Strip, it is unlikely the UN could provide security for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to visit the besieged enclave, said a spokesman. Asked about Abbas’ dramatic announcement in an address to the Turkish parliament that he plans to visit the Gaza Strip – a part of […]
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN chief on Friday called for a “polio pause” in Gaza to facilitate a major vaccination campaign. Describing Gaza as being in a “humanitarian freefall,” Antonio Guterres told reporters in a press conference: “Just when it seems the situation could not get worse for Palestinians in...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A UN fact-finding team will visit Bangladesh next week to set up a probe of hundreds of deaths during recent student-led protests which led the prime minister to step down, UN officials have announced. An independent inquiry commission will be funded and led by the UN, said Gwyn Lewis, the UN […]
