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Lorry loads of aid, including flour and baby food, are picked up after Israel eased an 11-week-long blockade.
A heated debate was sparked after the United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said that 14,000 babies in Gaza would die within 48 hours unless aid reached them.
A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,
The mishap is a major setback to the North Korean leader’s dream of modernizing his country’s outdated naval fleet.
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NBC News made a misleading social media post claiming thousands of Palestinian babies were in imminent danger of dying the day before an anti-Israel radical allegedly gunned down two Israeli
More now from UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who says the UK and their French and Canadian allies are “horrified by the escalation from Israel”. Speaking in the House of Commons, he repeats the government’s demand for a ceasefire as the “only way to free the hostages” and says that humanitarian assistance to Gazans must be scaled up.
The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain range face “physical and cultural” extinction.
Global momentum to prohibit and regulate “killer robots” seems to be building, as evidenced by numerous countries’ participation in the first United Nations General Assembly meeting on autonomous weapons systems.
Tom Fletcher tells the BBC five aid trucks allowed into Gaza yesterday have not yet reached people on the ground.
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Two women who fled North Korea have been telling the United Nations about the plight of people still living in the country and urging the world body to hold North Korea’s leader accountable for gross human rights violations.