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The UN refuses to retract its condemnation of Israel over the Jenin military operation
United Nations Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner, right, and Deputy Spokesman of the U.N. Secretary-General Farhan Haq are joined via video conference by U.N. Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen David Gressly during a news conference, Thursday, March 9, 2023 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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UN to keep pushing for extension of food and fertilizer exports from Russia and Ukraine
This handout picture released by the Trinidad Express Newspaper shows UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (L), accompanied by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Keith Rowley (R), speaking during a press conference at the Diplomatic Center in Port of Spain on July 3, 2023. The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, called on Monday to "increase support" for the Haitian police to face the wave of "unprecedented violence" in recent months. Guterres arrived in Trinidad and Tobago to participate in the Caribbean Community (Caricom) summit from Haiti, "where the security situation is rapidly deteriorating and humanitarian needs are skyrocketing." (Photo by TRINIDAD EXPRESS NEWSPAPER / Trinidad Express Newspaper / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / TRINIDAD EXPRESS NEWSPAPER" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS (Photo by TRINIDAD EXPRESS NEWSPAPER/Trinidad Express Newspaper/AFP via Getty Images)
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After Israeli raid in Jenin, Palestinians facing political stagnation, despair
Demonstrators gather as they march in support of Palestinians in Jenin, in downtown Amman, Jordan July 7, 2023. REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak
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UN tech agency rolls out human-looking robots for questions at a Geneva news conference
Humanoid robot Sophia is pictured during the ITU's AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 5 2023. Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics innovators and their high-tech creations will join diplomats, industry executives, academics, policy-makers, and UN partners in Geneva from July 6-7 for ITU's AI for Good Global Summit. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
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Guantanamo detainees tell first independent visitor about scars from torture and hopes to leave
FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, flags fly in front of the tents of Camp Justice in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, on April 18, 2019. For the first time since the facility in Cuba opened in 2002, a U.S. president had allowed a United Nations independent investigator, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, to visit. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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Detainees in U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo face cruel treatment, UN investigator says
FILE - In this photo reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower of Camp VI detention facility is seen on April 17, 2019, in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said Monday, June 26, 2023, that the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.” The U.S. response said Irish law professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin was the first U.N. special rapporteur to visit Guantanamo and had been given “unprecedented access” with “the confidence that the conditions of confinement at Guantanamo Bay are humane and reflect the United States’ respect for and protection of human rights for all who are within our custody.” (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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UN agencies decry humanitarian crisis in Haiti and seek help for hungry families fleeing violence
A girl eats at the New Church of God of Deliverance camp for displaced people, which now harbors 120 families from various hard-hit neighborhoods since gangs have expanded their turf and now control communities accounting for some two million people, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti June 19, 2023. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol
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UN members adopt first-ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas
FILE - A pair of North Atlantic right whales interact at the surface of Cape Cod Bay, Monday, March 27, 2023, in Massachusetts. The 193 U.N. member nations have adopted the first-ever treaty to protect marine life in the high seas. The United Nations chief hailed the historic agreement saying it gives the ocean “a fighting chance.” (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, NOAA permit # 21371)
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UN experts raise ‘widespread’ torture concerns with Russia
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/File Photo
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Inside Saadi Gadhafi’s secret plan to sell his luxury Toronto penthouse
A condominium at 10 Nay Wharf Court in downtown Toronto, is photographed on June 8, 2023 The penthouse condo, owned by Saadi Gadhafi is under a UN asset freeze as well as sanctions by Canada. (Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail).
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Indigenous farmers can teach world about food resilience, head of UN rural agency
In this picture taken on June 5, 2023, a worker sifts through grain at a mill in Maaret Misrin, north of Idlib in rebel-held northwestern Syria. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP) (Photo by AAREF WATAD/AFP via Getty Images)
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EU member Slovenia overwhelmingly defeats Moscow ally Belarus for UN Security Council seat
The UN Security Council meets to discuss the war in Ukraine, Monday, May 15, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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UN warns of new threat to global food security after Russia limits Ukraine grain shipments
FILE - A farmer collects harvest on his field ten kilometres from the front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, on July 4, 2022. Warning of a new threat to global food security, the United Nations said Thursday, June 1, 2023, that Russia is limiting the number of ships allowed to pick up Ukrainian grain at Black Sea ports in its campaign to get Kyiv to open a pipeline for a key ingredient of fertilizer to get to world markets. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)
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