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UN strongly condemns Israel’s unauthorised entry of UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem

Israeli police accompanied by municipal officials forcibly entered the facility, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini wrote on the social media platform X.Police motorcycles, trucks and forklifts were brought in and all communications were...

UN firmly rejects allegations against agencies in Yemen

Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General,  dismissed the allegations, stating “such false statements are baseless, and further threaten the safety of staff and...

Gaza: Paramedic still missing after aid worker killings, Palestinian Red Crescent Society calls for...

Last Sunday, a joint PRCS and UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) mission uncovered a shallow grave in Rafah. The bodies of eight PRCS paramedics, six civil...

He can assist scientists who haven’t understood the universe-origin properly

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). Most people in the whole world are interested in understanding the origin of the universe, but most of them don’t know...

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Ambassadors look for diplomatic way forward in Gaza and Ukraine

The UN Secretary-General told the Security Council on Tuesday that growing recognition for Palestine has created new political momentum in favour of a two-State...

Helpless in the face of hunger: Gaza families pray for deliverance – or death

Zeenat and her husband, Moamen Abu Asr, live with their children in a flimsy canvas tent, one of thousands that now line Gaza’s coastline. Once...

‘We won’t stop’: Afghan women keep businesses alive despite sweeping rights abuses

For many, running a small business has become the only viable path to earning an income – and a way to support other women...

New year dawns amid rubble and resolve in Gaza

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain uprooted, many living in makeshift tents pitched on bare ground or squeezed into damaged buildings without reliable access...

Scientifically unchaining the power of the turbulence code that cracked the universe formation

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). Scientists and engineers have long known that cracking the code of turbulence would be highly gratifying, but they did not know...

Gaza: Palestinians are dying amid lethal evacuation delays

“This is not a logistical problem,” James Elder, spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), told reporters in Geneva. “We have the ability to...

Fragile progress in Syria, at risk from exclusion and foreign interference, UN warns

They warned that foreign military action, political exclusion and dwindling resources threaten to undo fragile gains.UN Special Envoy Geir Pedersen – who announced that...

How aid is (and is not) getting into Gaza

UN News looked at the needs triggered by the ongoing conflict through a lens of how much aid is getting into Gaza compared with...

Syria: Chemical weapons watchdog hits reset button in Damascus, following productive meetings

In a press release on Saturday the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Director-General Fernando Arias and his team had met...

Gaza: Top independent rights probe alleges Israel committed genocide

In a new report published against the backdrop of intensifying Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on...

Why do most people believe in and stick with incorrect universe origin theories? –...

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). With the plethora of scientific data and beautiful pictures of celestial bodies that modern telescopes are collecting, scientists have been feeding...

LIVE COVERAGE: Day 3 of high-level conference on two-State solution for Israel and Palestine

UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday warned that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is “at a breaking point” and headed toward a one-State reality marked by...

Syria emergency: Four children a day killed by leftover explosives

Ricardo Pires, UNICEF Communication Manager for Emergencies, told journalists from Damascus that in the last nine years, at least 422,000 incidents involving unexploded ordnance...

UN News Champion: ‘Are you keeping up with the death?’ The grinding toll of...

“My team — my friends — are the reason I stand where I am today.This will, inevitably, evolve into a homage to them, but...

Gaza: ‘Unbearable’ suffering continues, UN official tells Security Council

Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East Khaled Khiari said more than 1,000 Palestinians had been killed since mid-June...

Gaza: Humanitarian response scaled up amid faltering ceasefire

In a press briefing on Tuesday, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric described reports of Israeli military action as “extremely concerning,” stressing that “we don’t want...

UN chief condemns Gaza killings, urges full respect for ceasefire

“The Secretary-General strongly condemns the killings due to Israeli airstrikes of civilians in Gaza yesterday, including many children,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told correspondents...

Syria risks grave division and destruction, Security Council hears

Geir Pedersen told the Security Council the country faced grave risk of further division that was in no Syrian’s interest.“As I brief you today,...

Winter rains and aid convoy obstacles worsen ordeal for one million Gazans

In an update, the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, stressed that attacks on civilian infrastructure have not stopped, “particularly in North Gaza, where the...

How to raise rational children in our modern world – Science180

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). In our modern secular world, and with the many things that kids are taught at school and over which parents have...