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Australia has reiterated support for Palestinian determination in the face of an international court ruling about Israel's illegal occupation after a UN vote.

General assembly votes overwhelmingly in favour of Palestinian resolution after ICJ ruling in July

UN member states were set to vote Wednesday on a push by the Palestinians to formally demand an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months.

The U.N. General Assembly is considering a Palestinian resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the West Bank within a year

UN member states will debate Tuesday a push by the Palestinians to formally demand an end to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories within 12 months.

Cameroon’s former prime minister has taken over the presidency of the U.N. General Assembly and called for nations to unite and to address global challenges from climate change and poverty to conflicts and armed violence

Palestinians propose UN resolution for Israel to withdraw from Gaza and West Bank, met with Israeli rejection. Escalating violence in the region amid dispu...

The Palestinians have circulated a draft U.N. resolution demanding that Israel end its “unlawful presence” in Gaza and the West Bank within six months

Sierra Leone’s president says Africa cannot wait any longer to get a bigger voice in the United Nations’ most powerful body, the Security Council

Cutting-edge telescopes, gravitational waves, black holes and our solar system’s central star, the Sun, are just a few of the topics that will be on the table in Cape Town, South Africa, for an event that’s a scientific version of the Olympic Games – though the world’s leading astronomy researchers…

United Nations General Assembly elects Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama, and Somalia to U.N. Security Council for two-year terms. Challenges and need for ...