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Four people are killed and damage is reported in a crowd crush and shooting after hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations food warehouse in an attempt to get food in Gaza City, Palestine.
2025-05-28

The United Nations says that the Ethiopian government is blocking aid from going to 2.3 million people in non-government-controlled rural areas in Tigray who are in dire need of assistance.
2021-02-6

Fiji's ambassador to the United Nations Peter Thomson is elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly for its 71st session.
2016-06-13

The United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration rules in favour of Bangladesh in a border dispute with India over the Bay of Bengal.
2014-07-8

The United Nations says that they have discovered a mass grave containing 75 bodies in Unity State, and two other mass graves have been reported in Juba.
2013-12-24

The United States Senate fails to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, with the motion failing to win the two-thirds majority.
2012-12-4

Aid workers and the United Nations raise concerns about rising food prices and increased cholera in Haiti, where Hurricane Sandy has killed at least 52 people.
2012-10-30

A United Nations expert panel reports that although the two governments deny it, Rwanda and Uganda continue to support the March 23 Movement.
2012-10-16

Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. and Arab League special envoy for the Syrian civil war, arrives in Damascus; fighting goes on in the east of the capital. [http:--main.omanobserver.om-node-109577 ("Oman Observer")]date=August 2019
2012-09-13

Actor Don Cheadle is appointed as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations environment agency during a ceremony in Rwanda to mark World Environment Day.
2010-06-5