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After International Court of Justice orders Israel to prevent acts of genocide, its attacks kill hundreds more in Gaza.

The World Court’s interim measures could being relief for Israel, vindication for Palestinians or offer a bit of both.

The United States defended its veto of a call for the immediate suspension of hostilities in Gaza at a U.N. meeting and again faced demands by the Palestinians and many other countries for a cease-fire now in the Israel-Hamas war – as well as by a group of rabbis in…

By far the most significant decision the Howard government made in 2003 was to support the invasion of Iraq. Journalists and historians have long maintained there was no submission to full cabinet weighing the pros and cons of the Australian intervention. Cabinet papers from 2003 released today by the National…

Discover the latest escalation in the Ukraine-Russia conflict as an emergency Security Council meeting is called. Uncover the UN's possible involvement in ...

The United Nations named an outgoing Dutch minister its humanitarian coordinator for Gaza on Tuesday following last week's watered-down Security Council resolution which called for aid to be delivered to the strip "at scale."

US negotiated for days to weaken the language of the resolution to ensure there is no call for an immediate ceasefire.

The Israeli military on Saturday said it had arrested hundreds of alleged militants in Gaza over the past week and transferred more than 200 of them to Israel for further interrogation. Also on Saturday, an Israel-affiliated ship off India's west coast was struck by a drone, causing a fire, British…

Discover the behind-the-scenes negotiations and creative resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.