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The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has dismissed U.S. calls for a return to diplomacy and lambasted condemnations of the North’s recent spy satellite launch, vowing more launches in violation of U.N. bans

US and North Korean Ambassadors Clash at UN in Rare Verbal Exchange Amid Escalating Tensions

A walkout by one nation marred an otherwise undramatic summit, but the barriers to reconciliation between Nauru and the Pacific Islands Forum are not insurmountable.

More than 8,300 people killed in Gaza since Israel’s retaliatory military action aimed at ‘obliterating’ Hamas

More than 8,300 people killed in Gaza since Israel’s retaliatory military action aimed at ‘obliterating’ Hamas

The United Nations special envoy for Syria is warning that the Israel-Hamas war is spilling into the neighboring country

The head of the U_N_ agency for Palestinian refugees is telling a U_N_ emergency meeting “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire has become a matter of life and death for millions.”

The U.N. General Assembly has scheduled a vote on a nonbinding resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza leading to a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers

The U.N. Security Council has failed again to address the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza, rejecting rival United States and Russian resolutions

Washington rejects humanitarian pauses, prioritizes direct diplomacy

International responses to the October 7 Hamas attack were broadly split between the Global North and South over condemnations of the killings of just Israeli civilians in the terror attack or all civilians in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But as the Gaza humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate, divisions are increasing within…