United Nations

Palestinians travel in an animal-drawn cart as they flee Rafah after Israeli forces launched a ground and air operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in the southern Gaza Strip May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
Hamas-Israel war

More than 100,000 people have fled Gaza's Rafah: UN

Israel's military on Monday called for Gazans to leave eastern Rafah, which triggered widespread international alarm.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell attends a joint news conference in Paris, France, April 15, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo
Middle East

Spain, Ireland to recognise Palestinian state on 21 May, says EU's Borrell

FILE PHOTO: The United Nations headquarters building is pictured though a window with the UN logo in the foreground in the Manhattan borough of New York August 15, 2014. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES
World+Biz

UN agency says closing east Jerusalem HQ after arson by 'Israeli extremists'

File Photo: Collected
World+Biz

UN General Assembly set to back Palestinian bid for membership

File photo of UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Photo: Collected
Hamas-Israel war

UN chief urges Israel to halt escalation, crossings be re-opened

Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip May 7, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled
Hamas-Israel war

UN says its access to Gaza's Rafah crossing 'denied' by Israel

FILE PHOTO: Palestinian children inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, April 27, 2024. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled/ File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UN agencies prepare for Rafah incursion, warn of 'slaughter'

By engaging with audiences and being transparent about advocacy and reporting, media organisations can increase trust by proving their own trustworthiness. Photo: Reuters
World+Biz

70% of environment journalists report attacks, threats, pressure: UN

Police arrest a pro-Palestinian protester, during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas, US, 29 April 2024. Aaron E Martinez/American-Statesman/USA Today Network via REUTERS/File Photo
World+Biz

UN concerned by police action against US campus protesters

People work to move into a cemetery bodies of Palestinians killed during Israel's military offensive and buried at Nasser hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, April 21, 2024. REUTERS/Ramadan Abed/File Photo
Hamas-Israel war

UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals

Workers stand near a rescue vessel of the Spanish NGO Open Arms at the port of Larnaca, Cyprus March 9, 2024. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou
USA

US says a UN agency has agreed to help in distribution of aid to Gaza via sea route

A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows a woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
Africa

UN warns 800,000 people in Sudan city in 'extreme, immediate danger'

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during a news conference on the eve of the U.N. climate summit (COP25) in Madrid, Spain, December 1, 2019. REUTERS/Sergio Perez
Middle East

UN chief says Mideast 'cycle of retaliation' must stop