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Palestine's United Nations envoy says that Palestinians are in danger of mass ethnic cleansing.
2023-10-14

In a resolution drafted by the UAE and Japan, the UN Security Council unanimously condemns the Taliban administration's ban on Afghan women working, including for the United Nations in Afghanistan, and calls on Taliban leaders to lift the ban immediately.
2023-04-27

Mali accuses its former ally France of arming jihadist terrorist groups in order to destabilize the country. Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop tells the United Nations that French aircraft are violating the country's airspace and dropping "arms and ammunition" to terrorist groups on the ground. France denies the accusations.
2022-08-18

The United States will contribute $64 million to the United Nations' famine prevention effort in Afghanistan.
2021-09-13

The United Nations MONUSCO reports that 20 Chowe-Pende community members have been killed in clashes with the Lulua-Luba community in Kasaï-Central, Democratic Republic of Congo.
2017-04-26

The official death toll exceeds 5,000 with the United Nations estimating that 1.4 million people in the region need emergency food assistance.
2015-04-28

A French court clears oil company Total S.A., its chief executive and over a dozen defendants of corruption charges related to the United Nations oil-for-food programme in Iraq.
2013-07-8

The government of Bahrain pledges to adopt most of the recommendations in a United Nations report on the country's human rights situation.
2012-09-20

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

The United Nations and Pan American Health Organization estimate that the number of cases in the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak could reach more than 200,000 in the next three months.
2010-11-24