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Palestinians collect their belongings from their damaged house after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Israeli airstrikes kill 13 in Rafah after Netanyahu rejects Hamas’ cease-fire terms

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

From left, member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Philip Jaffe, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Ann Skelton, and Vice-Chair Bragi Gudbrandsson, present its findings on Bulgaria, Congo, Lithuania, Russia, Senegal and South Africa, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. A panel of U.N.-backed experts that focuses on children's human rights called Thursday on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government's “political and military agenda,” including over the war in Ukraine. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

UN experts take Russia to task over deported Ukrainian children and a ‘military agenda’ in schools

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) chief Filippo Grandi speaks to The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. After a week visit in East Africa, listening to people whose lives have been shattered by Sudan's civil war. "Europe may soon have to deal with a flow of Sudanese migrants if a cease fire deal is not signed between the country's warring factions and relief efforts bolstered". Grandi said. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

About 13 children die each day at a camp in Sudan for displaced people, medical charity MSF says

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Palestinians carry a a body of a person killed in the Israeli bombardment at a building of an UNRWA vocational training center which displaced people use as a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

U.N. agencies rally around agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza as some top donors cut funding

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Palestinian demonstrators stand in front of the gate of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), demanding that the agency fulfil promises to compensate them for losses to their homes during the 2014 war, in Gaza City, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023. The protest revealed public desperation amid ongoing efforts to alleviate Gaza's housing crisis, including an Egyptian-funded project that aims to complete 1,400 apartments by the end of this year. Arabic reads "We demand the UNRWA to pay the compensation that we signed with the agency.", "We demand UNRWA to pay compensation for the 2014 aggression.", "Eight years of suffering while we are waiting for our compensation, which is a legal right for every affected refugee." - Victims of the 2014 aggression". (AP Photo/Adel Hana, file)

U.N. Relief and Works Agency perpetuates Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Sean Durns

$FILE - An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on May 8, 2021. Only a small fraction of needy people in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region are receiving food aid, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press, more than one month after aid agencies resumed deliveries of grain following a lengthy pause over theft. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)$

Millions urgently need food in Ethiopia’s Tigray region despite the resumption of aid deliveries

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Rafah on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Document spells out allegations against 12 U.N. employees Israel says participated in Hamas attack

By TIa Goldenberg, Najib Jobain and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Palestinian medics treat a girl wounded in the Israeli bombardment at a building of an UNRWA vocational training center which displaced people use as a shelter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Ramez Habboub)

Live updates | UN aid agency serving Palestinians in Gaza faces more funding cuts amid Oct 7 claims

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip walk through a makeshift tent camp in Rafah on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

U.N. chief calls for resumed funding of Palestinian aid agency after allegations of militant ties

By Najib Jobain and Wafaa Shurafa and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip sit on the beach in Rafah on the border with Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

What is UNRWA, the main aid provider in Gaza that Israel accuses of militant links?

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

FILE - John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the United States, left, listens to Xie Zhenhua, Special Envoy for Climate Change for China, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, May 24, 2022. Kerry and Xie are stepping down from their roles, marking a generational shift in the world of international climate negotiations. Activists and scientists hope that the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases continue finding ways to collaborate to prevent the planet from heating up to catastrophic levels. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Kerry and Xie exit roles that defined generation of climate action

By Chris Megerian and Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

Israelis visit the site where revelers were killed and kidnapped on Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas militants at the Nova music festival near Kibbitz Reim, southern Israel, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

U.N. relief agency fires Gaza employees accused of joining Hamas massacre

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A protester waving the Palestinian flag stands outside the Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice, or World Court, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations' top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Top U.N. court orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza but stops short of ordering cease-fire

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Chen Xu, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of the China to the UN Geneva, who is leading China's delegation, addresses his statement, during the U.N. Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group meeting to review China's human rights record, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Western countries press China on Hong Kong law, minority rights as U.N. body reviews its record

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. A U.N. report says the Taliban are restricting Afghan women's access to work, travel and healthcare if they are unmarried or don't have a male guardian, a mahram. The Taliban have banned women from education, most jobs and public spaces like parks since seizing control of Afghanistan in 2021. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban enforcing restrictions on single and unaccompanied Afghan women, says U.N. report

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Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, right, meets with patrons during a campaign stop at Mary Ann's Diner in Derry, N.H., Sunday, Jan. 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Nikki Haley tries to draw New Hampshire’s independents without alienating voters who backed Trump

By Holly Ramer - Associated Press

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Qatar and France send medicine for hostages in Gaza as war rages on and regional tensions spike

By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

An Israeli border police officer stands guard at the site of a Palestinian car-ramming and stabbing attack at a bus stop in Ra'anana, Israel, Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Israeli police say a car-ramming and stabbing attack by Palestinians killed a woman and wounded at least 12 others north of Tel Aviv. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Live updates | Israeli soldiers exchange fire along the border with Egypt as regional tensions rise

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Palestinians look at the destruction after an Israeli strike at a residential building in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

After over 100 days of war, Palestinians fight in hard-hit areas of Gaza and fire rockets at Israel

By Najib Jobain, Samy Magdy and Melanie Lidman - Associated Press

A Ukrainian APC fires towards Russian positions near Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, April 28, 2023. The United Nations is appealing for $4.2 billion to help people in Ukraine and displaced outside the country this year. It said Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, that people on the front lines have “exhausted their meager resources” and many refugees also are vulnerable. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

United Nations seeks $4.2 billion to help people in Ukraine and refugees this year

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