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‘Where do we go?’: How Israel’s ‘yellow line’ is closing in on Palestinians
- UN News
Ola Ishtiwi sits with her children in front of the remains of her home in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, a few metres away from a series of painted cement blocks Israel has placed to mark what has become known as the “yellow line”.
At Hammarskjöld’s Grave, Sixty-Five Years After Ndola
- Inter Press Service
Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent.
He died sixty-five years ago this month, on 18 September 1961, in an aircraft crash near Ndola, in what is now Zambia. He was fifty-six, on his way to seek a ceasefire in the Congo, where the secession of the mineral-rich province of Katanga had drawn a newly independent country into conflict and great-power rivalry.
Leaving the cemetery, I found myself thinking about the office he held and about a practice he helped build that the organisation has praised ever since but never fully sustained.
Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors mark 9/11 with counter-terrorism push on AI and drones
- UN News
The Security Council met to mark 25 years since the 9/11 attacks, with a briefing on counter-terrorism as ambassadors take stock of a threat that has morphed dramatically since resolution 1373 built the council's counter-terrorism machinery in 2001. Briefers are expected to zero in on militants' growing use of artificial intelligence, drones and encrypted platforms for recruitment and attack planning. Members are also set to adopt a presidential statement – the Council's first on terrorism in five years – after reportedly tense talks over references to specific groups and new tech language.
Terrorist propaganda is outpacing global efforts to stop it, UN report finds
- UN News
Terrorist groups are recruiting, raising money and even planning operations through propaganda that is now “embedded” in every stage of their work, a new UN report warns – and governments are struggling to keep pace.
Ukraine: Drone attacks on Chornobyl are ‘gambling with the safety of millions of people’
- UN News
A drone strike on the protective structure at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant could have endangered the safety of millions of people, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Alexander De Croo told reporters via video link from Kyiv on Thursday.
‘An assault on humanity itself’: Guterres pays tribute to 9/11 victims, survivors and first responders
- UN News
Twenty-five years ago, the heinous terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 against the United States claimed thousands of lives and represented “an assault on humanity itself”, the UN chief said on Thursday.
Security Council LIVE: Fresh attacks prompt emergency meeting on Yemen
- UN News
On the heels of reported Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday and the capture of another key port by the militants on Yemen’s Red Sea coast – including the seizure of eight UN vehicles from a key aid hub there – the Security Council is meeting on Thursday at 3pm in New York to discuss the latest developments.
Human cost of violence in South Sudan ‘continues to grow’
- UN News
Independent human rights investigators voiced deep concern over growing risks to both civilians and South Sudan’s political transition following their latest fact-finding mission to the world’s youngest nation – their 14th in a decade.
UN hails Libya election deal as Security Council urges Libyans to seize the moment
- UN News
The UN Security Council has welcomed a breakthrough agreement between Libya's rival political blocs, calling it ‘an important step’ towards the country's first national elections in over a decade – while pressing all sides to move quickly from paper to practice.
Guterres urges leaders to invest in peace as conflicts deepen
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General appealed on Wednesday for world leaders to invest in peace as violence, division and conflict exacerbate suffering worldwide.
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