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World
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International
6/29/2024 9:28:56 AM
War and funding shortfalls have hampered progress toward the United Nations' flagship development goals which include action to combat climate change, the organization's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday.
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World
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War in Sudan
6/27/2024 2:52:37 PM
Some 25.6 million people, or more than half of Sudan's population, are facing high levels of "acute food insecurity", a report cited by the United Nations said Thursday.
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Business
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Tech
6/27/2024 11:41:13 AM
Fully autonomous cars are still years away from hitting the streets, but internationally-agreed rules on their use could be ready by mid-2026, the United Nations has said.
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World
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Region
6/26/2024 8:46:26 PM
The outgoing United Nations humanitarian chief warned Wednesday that a spread of the Israeli war on Gaza to Lebanon would be "potentially apocalyptic", as fighting raged on in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Opinion
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6/26/2024 1:49:15 PM
Six months ago, at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai (COP28), the world transcended geopolitical divides – something few believed possible – and united behind a realistic plan, known as the UAE Consensus, to promote sustainable prosperity and address the threat of climate change.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/26/2024 10:17:47 AM
The United Nations is confirming that it urged Israel to protect humanitarian staff and facilitate aid deliveries in Gaza but said it “will not turn its back on the people of Gaza.”
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/25/2024 3:02:26 PM
Almost half a million people are still experiencing "catastrophic" hunger in Gaza, with famine still a high risk, a United Nations-backed assessment found Tuesday.
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World
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International
6/24/2024 7:54:29 PM
The United Nations on Monday published principles for fighting online disinformation, including an overhaul of the advertising model of social media networks.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/24/2024 2:11:09 PM
Egypt has coordinated with the United Nations to facilitate the entry of 2,272 trucks into the Gaza Strip over the past three weeks through the Karm Abu Salem crossing, a high-level source told Egyptian news channel Al-Qahera News on Monday.
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Business
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Economy
6/21/2024 3:30:35 PM
Worldwide foreign direct investment fell for a second consecutive year in 2023 amid a global economic slowdown, coupled with swelling trade and geopolitical tensions, the United Nations said Thursday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/19/2024 5:35:42 PM
Egypt refuted claims that it has approved the deployment of forces to Gaza as part of an alleged joint Arab task force under the United Nations, which would follow the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation troops from the Palestinian strip.
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World
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International
6/18/2024 5:51:42 PM
A United Nations agency is warning that developments in artificial intelligence could spawn a new surge in Holocaust denial.
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World
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International
6/16/2024 12:47:20 PM
Taliban authorities will attend the third round of United Nations-hosted talks on Afghanistan in the Qatari capital, a government spokesman told AFP on Sunday, after snubbing an invitation to the previous round.
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World
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Region
6/15/2024 3:38:01 PM
France, Germany and Britain on Saturday condemned Iran's "latest measures", after the United Nations atomic watchdog said the country was expanding its nuclear capacities.
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World
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War in Sudan
6/14/2024 12:04:49 PM
The United Nations envoy charged with reporting on violations against children in conflicts around the world said late Thursday that first and foremost she is worried about what’s happening to youngsters in war-torn Sudan, followed by Congo and Haiti.
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World
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Region
6/13/2024 10:29:49 PM
The heads of six United Nations agencies and three international NGOs issued a joint call Thursday for the release of their staff detained by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
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World
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War in Sudan
6/12/2024 8:08:55 PM
The United Nations has added Sudan's army and rival paramilitary forces to a blacklist for harming children in war, as the organisation decried a "shocking" rise in such violations around the world, according to a UN report obtained by AFP.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
6/11/2024 12:57:38 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi is attending today the “Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza” Conference jointly organised by the United Nations, Egypt and Jordan on the Dead Sea coast on Tuesday.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/11/2024 9:36:20 AM
Hamas said late Monday that it "welcomes" the United Nations Security Council vote adopting a US-drafted resolution supporting a ceasefire plan in Gaza.
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World
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International
6/10/2024 10:50:54 PM
The United Nations' refugees chief denounced Monday the politicisation of migration in European elections, warning that demonising refugees would only make the issue more difficult to deal with.
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