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UN will continue to engage the Taliban in Afghanistan despite new laws restricting women
A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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WHO says its deal with Israel will allow limited pauses in Gaza fighting for polio vaccinations
The mother of Palestinian boy Abdul Rahman Abu Al-Jidyan, who is the first person to contract polio in Gaza in 25 years, looks after him in their tent, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip August 28, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
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At least 30 killed in Sudan dam collapse, number could be much higher, U.N. says
This picture shows the destroyed Arbaat Dam, 40km north of Port Sudan that collapsed following heavy rains and torrential floods on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN aid operations in Gaza halt after Israel orders evacuations
FILE PHOTO: Lobna al-Azaiza, a Palestinian pediatrician offering free medical services to displaced Palestinians, listens to a woman seeking checkups for her children in a tent near al-Azaiza's house, which was destroyed in an Israeli strike, in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, August 12, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
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Taliban vice and virtue laws provide ‘distressing vision’ for Afghanistan, warns UN envoy
Taliban fighters celebrate the third anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)
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Curb hate speech that fuelled riots, UN committee urges Britain
FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators toss a trash bin during an anti-immigration protest, in Rotherham, Britain, August 4, 2024. REUTERS/Hollie Adams/File Photo
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Russia accuses Ukraine of trying to attack Kursk nuclear power plant with drone
The logo of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is seen at their headquarters before an emergency meeting at the request of both Ukraine and Russia, to discuss attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, after both countries accused each other of drone attacks, in Vienna, Austria April 11, 2024. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo
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UN says a record number of aid workers were killed in 2023 and this year may be even higher
FILE PHOTO: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, U.S., June 5, 2024. REUTERS/David Dee Delgado/File Photo
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Israel orders evacuation of part of Gaza humanitarian zone as war’s toll passes 39,000 Palestinians
FILE - A Palestinian man displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, walks at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
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Ottawa says it has ‘taken note’ of UN court call for end to Israeli settlements
A picture shows new buildings and a planned expansion site in the Israeli settlement of Elon Moreh built on lands of the Palestinian village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank on July 19, 2024. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN says up to ‘occupying power’ Israel to restore order in Gaza for aid
FILE - Palestinians storm rucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a new U.S.-built pier, in the central Gaza Strip, Saturday, May 18, 2024. A persistent breakdown in law and order is rendering an aid route in south Gaza unusable, the UN and NGOs say, days after Israel's military said it would pause combat there to help aid reach desperate Palestinians. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana, File)
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UN adopts a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of a Darfur city
FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Thursday, June 13, 2024, demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control where more than a million people are reportedly trapped. The resolution, which was approved by a vote of 14-0 with Russia abstaining, expresses “grave concern” at the spreading violence and credible reports that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are carrying out “ethnically motivated violence” in El Fasher. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
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United Nations’ investigators probe 14 Gaza aid staffers Israel had tied to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
FILE - Palestinian children who fled with their parents from their houses in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh, gather in the backyard of an UNRWA school, in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 12, 2023. An independent review released Monday, April 22, 2024, of the neutrality of UNRWA, the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees, has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011. The review was carried out after Israel alleged that a dozen employees of the agency had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari, File)
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Shipping industry urges UN to protect vessels after Iran’s seizure of container vessel
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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U.S. stops UN from recognizing a Palestinian state through membership
A general view shows a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters, Thursday, April 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
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World leaders call on nations to swiftly ratify U.N. ocean treaty
This handout photograph taken by Greenpeace Greece on April 14, 2024 shows a message reading 'Our Ocean Is Not For Sale' projected by Greenpeace Greece activists onto the SNFCC conference centre in Kallithea, near Athens. Greenpeace Greece activists project a series of ocean protection messages onto the Acropolis Hill and other sites around Athens to call for the protection of the oceans from corporate greed, ensuring justice for coastal communities, stopping deep sea mining and ratifying the UN High Seas Treaty. (Photo by Handout / GREENPEACE GREECE / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / GREENPEACE GREECE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVE (Photo by HANDOUT/GREENPEACE GREECE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Artist and curators refuse to open Israel pavilion at Venice Biennale until ceasefire, hostage deal
Italian soldiers stand guard in front of the Israel's pavilion during the pre-opening of the Venice Biennale art show, on April 16, 2024 in Venice. The artist representing Israel at the Venice Biennale called for a ceasefire in the war with Hamas and said her exhibit would remain closed until the hostages were released. Ruth Patir's video installation "(M)otherland" was due to open on April 20 at Israel's national pavilion at the international art show, but the day before a media preview, she said it would remain closed for now. (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS / AFP) (Photo by GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP via Getty Images)
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