Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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This Week @UN: Haitians stuck in Mexico; seeking the right UN SecGen; US battles women’s rights; Security Council condemns Iran; triumphing over sexual harassment. Plus: Mass displacement in Lebanon; SecGen in Türkiye & Lebanon; Gaza/West Bank/Israel; drone deadfare in Sudan; …
- Arthur Bassas
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This Week @UN: US/Israel avoid condemnation; Taliban’s gender apartheid; Melania Trump mum on killed Iranian children; counterterrorism mystery money; Swedish-Epstein pen pals. Plus: Mideast; peacekeepers attacked; Afghanistan/Pakistan; “killing with impunity”; 2 new UN secretary-general candidates Stay abreast of UN & …
- Arthur Bassas
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This Week @UN: NYC backs Turtle Bay; prosecuting Russia’s war; US abstains on Ukraine. Plus: No peace in Ukraine; Gaza amputees; US 1st Lady gavels; World Food Program boss leaving; Palestinian pulls candidacy; Pakistan’s fresh fighting with Taliban. • Stay …
- Arthur Bassas
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This Week @UN: Fixing e-waste economies; US cuts counterextremism funding; UN Security Council’s doubts about Trump’s Board of Peace. Plus: Gaza/West Bank miseries; Jesse Jackson @UN; Board of Peace debut; defending Francesca Albanese; more Epstein “atrocities”; AI dignity; 1 country/4 …
- Arthur Bassas
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The United Nations Security Council, like the rest of the world, will be watching the inaugural meeting on Feb. 19 of President Trump’s Board of Peace, the new entity established by a Council resolution to implement the US-led 20-point peace …
- Damilola Banjo
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This Week @UN: UK’s women’s rights agenda; battling for a woman SecGen; Board of Peace’s only Palestinian woman. Plus: West Bank encroachments; South Sudan’s volatility; Ukraine’s front line; France lashes out; Haiti’s gang recruitments; #1 olive oil producer. • Stay …
- Arthur Bassas
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In Gaza, Hana al-Tarazi has spent years as a lawyer working on cases that turn on the details of both civil law and Islamic jurisprudence in courtrooms where women still fight to be heard. These include personal-status disputes that can …
- Arshi Qureshi
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James Kariuki, Britain’s chargé d’affaires to the United Nations, says his country will continue to push the ambitions of the women, peace and security agenda as a permanent member and rotating president of the Security Council this month. It remains …
- Damilola Banjo
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This Week @UN: Nuke treaty to the rescue; UN candidate’s 3 Latin backers; deadbeat donors; call DT!! Plus: Rafah crossing opens; Norwegian diplos & Epstein; Israeli threats in Lebanon; no oil for Cuba; Nigeria massacre. Stay abreast in real time: …
- Arthur Bassas
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This Week @UN: Trump to UN: Drop Dead; a female/feminist SecGen; a UN-merger risk. Plus: Gaza/West Bank/Israel; Holocaust remembrance; UN-Haiti updates; Guterres’s priorities in 2026; UN death spiral. Follow us in real time on Blue Sky, Twitter (X), Facebook, Instagram …
- Arthur Bassas
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This Week @UN: A crimes against humanity treaty; Latvia finds its voice; Israel’s UN attack; UN pension review; Gazans adapt to South Africa. Plus: Trump & Gaza; UNDP relos; Greenland/Denmark; Microsoft’s AI push; Syria’s Al Hol camp. Stay current (& …
- Arthur Bassas
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The United Nations on Tuesday condemned Israel’s demolition of the headquarters compound of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in East Jerusalem, describing the move as an attack on the world body itself. Farhan Haq, the …
- Damilola Banjo
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STRUISBAAI, South Africa — Two years ago, Abdul Haddad* spent the Christmas season living in a tent on a beach in Gaza amid the horrendous conditions of the Israeli onslaught on the Palestinian territory. Like hundreds of thousands of other …
- Anton Ferreira
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This Week @UN: Fighting for postwar justice; European backlash on human rights; the case against military growth; where are the SecGen candidates? Plus: Rage in Iran; Myanmar clashes; Guterres’s final priorities; Trumpland v Greenland; US Board of Peace; UK hoopla. …
- Arthur Bassas
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The Israeli government continues to solidify its relationship with the breakaway region of Somaliland despite condemnation from the United Nations and as Somalia, which has internationally recognized rights over the semi-autonomous area, leads the Security Council in January. Gideon Saar, …
- Damilola Banjo
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