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The United Nations reports that "anarchy" and societal breakdown is expanding across the Gaza Strip due to Israeli military destabilization, citing an increase in looting and extrajudicial killings of police and humanitarian workers.
2024-07-19

United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk calls for an international investigation on Israel after hundreds of bodies are discovered in mass graves near the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza.
2024-04-23

The United Nations announces that the conference of the parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity initially scheduled to take place in Kunming, China, later this year will be moved to Montreal, Canada, due to logistical complications caused by China's Zero-COVID policy.
2022-06-21

A high-level United Nations delegation led by Department of Political Affairs head Jeffrey D. Feltman travels to North Korea for talks this week. It will be the first such diplomatic visit in six years.
2017-12-4

Russia vetoes a UN resolution that would have condemned the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniaks as a genocide.
2015-07-8

The United Nations states that the death toll of the ongoing Syrian civil war has exceeded 100,000.
2013-07-25

United Nations report says that Israeli settlements must be immediately withdrawn without preconditions, to comply with article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
2013-01-31

The United Nations projects that the world's population will pass 7 billion on October 31, 2011.
2011-05-3

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a major United Nations gathering, meets in Japan to work out why governments have failed to stop the rapid rate of extinction and loss of habitats by 2010, as they vowed 8 years ago.
2010-10-18

The Texas Education Agency adopts controversial changes to the Texas public school curriculum, including dropping coverage of enlightenment thinker Thomas Jefferson and suggesting United Nations is a "threat to freedom". The proposal to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade" is not implemented.
2010-05-22