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UN officials say Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians at an aid convoy

UN experts demand that the Taliban immediately transfer Barbie and Peter Reynolds to a hospital

Deaths reported as Israeli tanks move in on area IDF believes Hamas are holding some hostages

The U.N.'s children's agency says the war in Gaza has left over 650,000 students without access to education

Scores of people have been killed by the IDF trying to access one of 25 trucks filled with aid from the UN's World Food Programme.

The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly outline consequences for polluters that cause climate harm to vulnerable countries.

The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters' responsibilities towards the countries suffering most.

Today, business and human rights is a well-accepted field of study promulgated by academics, industry and civil society groups around the world. But in the mid-1990s, when a fledgling lawyer in England decided to sue a behemoth asbestos corporation in South Africa, the idea that corporations might have a responsibility…

Victims include 79 aid seekers who were gunned down in the north and 13 others killed in the south, medics say.

Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, have been held for five-and-a-half months without charge

Israeli forces open fire on hungry Palestinians near Gaza City in one of bloodiest incidents involving aid seekers