Israel Takes Control of Rafah Border Crossing, Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: UN Warning

Israel Takes Control of Rafah Border Crossing, Worsening Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: UN Warning

AFPChildren wait for food in Rafah (archive) NOS news•today, 9:18 p.m In the short term, the outlook is bleak for hundreds of thousands of starving Palestinians in Gaza. The two main supply points for emergency aid have been closed from Israel Today he captured the Rafah border crossing. The crossing at Kerem Shalom, in the … Read more

Russia Blocks Monitoring of North Korean Sanctions in UN Security Council Vote

Russia Blocks Monitoring of North Korean Sanctions in UN Security Council Vote

AFPNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a missile exercise NOS Nieuws•gisteren, 21:03 In the UN Security Council, Russia has blocked monitoring of sanctions against North Korea. When voting on the annual renewal of monitoring by a group of experts, Russia vetoed it. The sanctions against North Korea remain intact, but the regulators have now lost … Read more

UN General Assembly Votes Overwhelmingly for Gaza Ceasefire, Netherlands Abstains Again

UN General Assembly Votes Overwhelmingly for Gaza Ceasefire, Netherlands Abstains Again

AFPThe outcome of the vote in the UN General Assembly NOS News•today, 00:43•Adjusted today, 00:58 The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly in favor of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, but the Netherlands again abstained from the vote, just as it did at the end of last month. According to outgoing minister Bruins Slot, the … Read more

UN Secretary General António Guterres Appeals to Security Council for Ceasefire Resolution in Gaza

UN Secretary General António Guterres Appeals to Security Council for Ceasefire Resolution in Gaza

EPAUN Secretary General António Guterres during the Security Council meeting The relationship between the United Nations and Israel has reached an all-time low. Yesterday, UN chief António Guterres made a rare appeal to Article 99 of the organization’s charter to bring the situation in the Gaza Strip to the attention of the Security Council. Guterres’ … Read more

UN Chief invokes Article 99: implications for Gaza crisis and global security

UN Chief invokes Article 99: implications for Gaza crisis and global security

ReutersVN chief António Guterres NOS Nieuws•vandaag, 12:13 United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has invoked Article 99 of the organization’s charter in response to the situation in Gaza. He did this in a letter to the UN Security Council. A special call, since Article 99 is rarely cited. Anyone who opens the 1945 UN Charter and … Read more

Data shows Vietnam dispatches ship to monitor Chinese vessel enforcing control over Russian gas field in EEZ.

Data shows Vietnam dispatches ship to monitor Chinese vessel enforcing control over Russian gas field in EEZ.

Tensions between Vietnam and China have once again escalated as Vietnam announced the deployment of a ship to track a Chinese vessel patrolling a Russian gas field within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). This move comes amid increasing disputes between the two countries over territorial claims in the South China Sea. With geopolitical tensions on … Read more

The Significance of Having a Bank Account Stressed by Máxima During her Tour in Morocco

The Significance of Having a Bank Account Stressed by Máxima During her Tour in Morocco

NOS News•today, 20:21 Samira Jadir correspondent Morocco Samira Jadir correspondent Morocco Queen Máxima paid a four-day visit to Morocco for her position at the United Nations. The international organization is committed to the financial digitization of the North African country, where most people still prefer to pay with cash. Máxima started in Casablanca, the economic … Read more

Mass graves with dozens of bodies found in Congo

Mass graves with dozens of bodies found in Congo

AFP NOS News•today, 01:27 In northeastern Congo, United Nations soldiers have discovered two mass graves containing the bodies of 49 people. The graves were found in Ituri province, a UN spokesman said. According to the organization, rebels from the armed group Codeco carried out attacks on civilians in that region last weekend. After soldiers from … Read more

Angelina Jolie quits her job at the United Nations refugee agency

Angelina Jolie quits her job at the United Nations refugee agency

EPA ANNOUNCEMENTS•today, 1:43 pm After more than twenty years, Angelina Jolie resigns from her job for the UNHCR, the United Nations agency for refugees. The American actress remains committed to humanitarian affairs and human rights issues, she says in her a joint statementbut Jolie says she would now like to do it from a different … Read more