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Palestine’s Permanent Observer Mission to the United Nations sends a statement to media organisations challenging the veracity of comments from Israel after the explosion.
2023-10-17

The World Meteorological Organization of the United Nations reports an average global temperature of about 1.15{{nbsp}}°C above pre-industrial levels in 2022, confirming that the last eight years were the highest temperatures recorded on Earth since records began.
2023-01-12

The Coast Guard of Libya stops nearly 400 migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean in five boats in the past two days, according to the office for migrants of the United Nations.
2020-05-25

At least 110 people have died of starvation in the drought-hit region of Bay, Somalia, in the past 48 hours, according to Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre. This comes as the United Nations and various non-governmental organizations are warning of potential famine in the country.
2017-03-4

The UN reports 232 civilians have been murdered in and near Mosul by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
2016-10-28

The United Nations launches an emergency appeal for almost U.S.$120 million in life-saving help for 750,000 survivors in Haiti at risk of starvation and-or cholera.
2016-10-11

Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands and United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud Lubbers is injured in a car accident and rushed to a hospital with minor injuries.
2013-03-8

Haiti police fire tear gas into a camp for internally displaced people in Port-au-Prince after riots over United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal allegedly bringing cholera into the country turn violent.
2010-11-18

The United Nations describes the ongoing 2010 Pakistan floods as the worst natural disaster in years - worse than the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake - as the number of people affected reaches an estimated 15 million and the waters and landslides continue to swamp the country.
2010-08-9

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