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Israel Police examine kits suspected of containing liquid cocaine that UN employees allegedly tried to smuggle into Israel from Jordan on June 25, 2023. (Israel Police)
June 25, 2023, 8:03 pm
Police detain 3 UN employees for smuggling liquid cocaine into Israel from Jordan
Customs officers at border crossing catch workers who allegedly hid drug inside kits for preparing perfume
By ToI Staff
Ban Ki-moon, former UN secretary general, poses for a portrait in Tel Aviv, Israel, June 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
June 23, 2023, 10:20 am
Israel on verge of apartheid, hopes for peace ‘fading away,’ says former UN chief
Ban Ki-moon calls for military to exercise restraint amid uptick in violence; ex-Irish president says situation worse than under previous government, as the two visit Israel
By AP and ToI Staff
Water flows over the collapsed Kakhovka Dam in Nova Kakhovka, in Russian-occupied Ukraine, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo)
June 19, 2023, 3:00 pm
UN says Russia preventing aid workers from site of Ukraine dam collapse
After global body complains that it is being denied access to help flooded civilians, Russia claims area not safe because of shelling by Ukrainian forces
By susie blann
IS fighters parade in commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicles down a main road at the northern city of Mosul, Iraq, more than two weeks after taking over the country's second largest city, June 23, 2014. (AP Photo)
June 7, 2023, 10:52 pm
UN to launch central archives of Islamic State crimes in Iraq
8 million pages from terror group’s bureaucracy have been digitized so far, and are set to be stored at Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council
By AFP
A satellite image of the FSO Safer tanker moored off Ras Issa port, in Yemen, June 17, 2020. (Maxar Technologies via AP)
May 31, 2023, 10:04 am
UN vessel arrives at rusting oil tanker off Yemen’s coast as salvage op begins
Arrival of Ndeavor, which set off from neighboring Djibouti, is the first step in a weeks-long effort to avert a major oil spill
By AP
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File: A demonstrator shows her hands reading '1.5 to survive' at a protest advocating for the warming goal at the COP27 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 16, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. (AP/Peter Dejong)
May 17, 2023, 5:26 pm
Next five years expected to be hottest period ever recorded, UN warns
Annual global surface temperatures likely to exceed 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels, an internationally accepted threshold for limiting worst effects of climate change
By Robin MILLARD
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at a UN event commemorating the Palestinian 'Nakba,' in New York, May 15, 2023. (Screenshot: UN; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 15, 2023, 10:27 pm
Abbas calls on UN to oust Israel at world body’s first ‘Nakba Day’ commemoration
PA head claims Israel ‘lies like Goebbels,’ says he wants right to live in Safed; Foreign Ministry says it convinced dozens of nations to stay away; US boycotts ‘anti-Israel’ event
By Luke Tress
The UN General Assembly Fourth Committee votes on measures addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at UN headquarters in New York, November 11, 2022. (AP/Jeenah Moon)
May 14, 2023, 10:12 pm
Israel’s UN envoy urges other diplomats to stay away from Monday ‘Nakba’ event
Erdan claims some already convinced to shun commemoration, which he says promotes ‘Jew-hatred’ and ‘serves to inflame tensions’
By Luke Tress
Palestinians in Gaza City hold portraits of Khader Adnan, a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group who died in Israeli custody on May 2, 2023 after an 86-day hunger strike. (Mohammed Abed/AFP)
May 4, 2023, 3:20 am
Palestinian UN envoy lauds Islamic Jihad member who died on hunger strike
Riyad Mansour calls Khader Adnan a ‘hero prisoner,’ falsely says he was held under contentious administrative detention policy; UN investigators call for probe into his death
By Luke Tress
A woman looks at a picture of Iranian reporters Niloufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi posted on Twitter, in Nicosia on November 2, 2022. (Christina Assi/AFP)
May 3, 2023, 1:17 pm
Imprisoned Iranian journalists win top UN prize for exposing death of Mahsa Amini
Winners are Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who covered the death of woman in police custody, and Narges Mohammadi, one of the country’s most prominent activists
By AP
Police detain journalist Farida Rustamova holding a poster which reads 'Journalism Freedom,' during a protest outside the main headquarters of the country's top domestic security agency, the FSB, on Lubyanka Square in Moscow, Russia, Aug. 21, 2021 (AP Photo/Denis Kaminev, File)
May 3, 2023, 11:58 am
‘Freedom of the press is under attack’: UN sounds alarm over global assaults on media
Guterres stresses unfettered press is foundation of democracy, WSJ editor calls for Russia to free Evan Gershkovich; watchdog says 55 journalists, 4 media workers killed in 2022
By Amélie BOTTOLLIER-DEPOIS
Afghan women hold placards as they march to protest for their rights, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 29, 2023. (AFP)
April 29, 2023, 6:44 pm
Afghan women protest against potential Taliban recognition ahead of UN summit
International forum in Doha set to discuss steps forward, but demonstrators say any deal with country’s rulers means infringing on their rights
By AFP
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan (2R) and other Israeli delegates hold a moment of silence for terror victims brothers Yaakov and Asher Palley during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, at the United Nations headquarters in New York City on February 20, 2023. (Yuki IWAMURA/AFP)
April 25, 2023, 7:49 pm
Israel’s UN envoy walks out of Security Council to protest Memorial Day session
Gilad Erdan reads out names of fallen Israelis to council members, lights memorial candle in chamber, says UN rejected requests to move session to another day
By Luke Tress
A Samburu woman fetches water during a drought in Loolkuniyani Primary School, Samburu County, Kenya, Oct. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
April 21, 2023, 8:20 pm
UN climate report details growing toll of global warming in 2022
Past year plagued by killer floods, droughts and heat waves around the world costing billions of dollars, as global ocean heat and acidity levels hit record highs
By Seth Borenstein
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