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PublishedDecember 22, 2023
UN approves watered-down resolution on aid to Gaza without call for suspension of hostilities
The revised text was negotiated during a week and a half of high-level diplomacy by the United States, and the United Arab Emirates on behalf of Arab nations and others.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2023
UN says more than 1 in 4 people in Gaza are starving because of war
A report from the U.N. finds that more than half a million people in Gaza are starving because of not enough food entering the territory since the outbreak of war more than 10 weeks ago.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2023
Agreement on UN resolution on critical aid for Gaza is ‘very close’ and vote expected, sponsor says
The U.S. has been struggling to change the text’s references to a cessation of hostilities in the Israel-Hamas war, but the key sticking point is the inspection of aid trucks entering Gaza to ensure they are only carrying humanitarian goods.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2023
UN General Assembly set to vote on nonbinding resolution calling for a ‘humanitarian truce’ in Gaza
The assembly’s emergency special session on Israeli actions, which began Wednesday, continued Friday with U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield echoing Israel’s envoy in calling the resolution to be voted on.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2023
U.S. vetoes UN resolution condemning all violence against civilians in Israel-Hamas war
The resolution sponsored by Brazil had wide support and would have condemned all violence against civilians, including 'the heinous terrorist attacks by Hamas' against Israel.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2023
Zelensky: Russia is weaponizing food, energy and abducted children in its war against Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took to the world stage at a sensitive point in his country’s campaign to maintain international support for its fight at the U.N. General Assembly’s annual top-level meeting.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2023
Biden exhorts world leaders at the UN to stand up to Russia, warns not to let Ukraine ‘be carved up’
He implores the leaders to stand up to 'this naked aggression today to deter other would-be aggressors tomorrow.'
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2023
At Davos, Zelensky urges allies to speed up the push against Russia
Ukraine's president spoke after U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the world as being in a 'sorry state' because of interlinked challenges including climate change and Russia's war in Ukraine.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2022
Russia ‘shamelessly violated’ UN charter in Ukraine, Biden tells world leaders
The president also pledges $2.9 billion in global food security aid to address shortages caused by the war and the effects of climate change, in a speech to the UN General Assembly.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2022
Putin announces Ukraine military operation, explosions heard
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a military operation in Ukraine and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences they have never seen.”
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