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Battles and bombardment pounded the Gaza Strip on Thursday, after Washington said Israel agreed to reschedule cancelled talks with tensions worsening between the allies.

Exclusive: Dfat official said there was ‘precious nothing in the public domain’ on claims against aid agency hours before pause announced

Israeli PM had cancelled officials’ US visit to discuss planned offensive in southern Gaza after the US refused to veto a UN security council vote on a ceasefire

Advocacy group condemns ‘heinous war crime’, and says Israel appears to ‘kill Palestinians on a whim’.

Judges at the International Court of Justice on Thursday unanimously ordered Israel to take all the necessary and effective action to ensure basic food supplies arrive without delay to the Palestinian population in Gaza. The move came amid reports of close combat around Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, where the armed…

Two-thirds of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are ‘non-functional,’ according to the UN.

The United Nations and the U.S. express concerns over escalating conflict in Congo's eastern region involving Rwanda, calling for peace efforts and withdra...

Australia's push to block people from countries that won't accept the return of asylum seekers will have a negative impact, a UN-related agency says.

The special U_N_ envoy for Congo says security in the African nation’s mineral-rich east has deteriorated since recent elections, with a rebel group allegedly linked to neighboring Rwanda making “significant advances and expanding its territory.”

"I appreciate the encouragement I've gotten to pursue a third party candidacy," Christie said.

The governing council that aims to oversee a political transition in Haiti vowed Wednesday to restore "public and democratic order," in its first statement to the Caribbean nation wracked by a worsening security crisis.