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The United Nations humanitarian relief chief is urging Israel to open up all entrances to Gaza to allow a surge of aid into the territory. Tom Fletcher, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief spoke to CBC News from El-Arish, Egypt after visiting the Rafah Crossing between Egypt and Gaza. CBC | World News
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UN’s top court says failing to protect planet from climate change could violate international law
In a landmark advisory opinion on Wednesday, the United Nations’ top court said countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change, and nations harmed by its effects could be entitled to reparations. CBC | World News
Read More »At least 7,000 have died in Congo this year, country’s PM tells UN’s human rights council
Some 7,000 people have died since January in fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the prime minister of the DRC told a high-level meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday, with combatants and civilians among the dead. CBC | World News
Read More »How the UN’s aid agency for Palestinians works — and why it’s under fire now
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Read More »Israel rejects ‘grossly distorted’ genocide allegations at UN’s top court
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Read More »U.S. and Israel to withdraw from UN’s cultural, educational agency
The United States and Israel announce they are quitting UNESCO after Washington accused the UN’s cultural agency of anti-Israeli bias. CBC | World News
Read More »Military action directed at North Korea ‘too horrific’ to consider: UN’s Guterres
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday the solution to containing North Korea as the regime conducts continued nuclear weapons tests “must be political” as the “potential consequences to military action are too horrific.” CBC | World News
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