I strongly condemn the serious escalation represented by the large-scale attack launched on Israel by Iran.

I call for an immediate cessation of these hostilities.

Neither the region nor the world can afford another war. un.org/sg/en/content/…

'The matter can be deemed concluded,' the Iranian mission to the UN says, while telling the US to 'stay away'

Israel's envoy to the UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן has made it a strategy to tear down the organization where he serves—an increasingly risky and dissonant approach as the Palestinian death toll continues to rise

Iain Marlow and I looked at his tactics. 🎁 link:
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Outside of Gaza, the other battleground in the Israel-Hamas war has been at the United Nations. For Bloomberg Politics, Augusta Saraiva and I spoke to Israel's outspoken envoy, Gilad Erdan, who has hit back at the country's many critics from his perch in New York.

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US Ambassador to the UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield is traveling to the Demilitarized Zone with North Korea next week — the first top US official to visit the border in almost two years bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Magnitude 5.5 struck struck New York and New Jersey. It was felt in UN Security Council, where cameras shook. Save the Children CEO Janti Soeripto, who was addressing the UNSC on Gaza, stopped speaking. Palestinian UN envoy Riyad Mansour quipped: “You’re making the ground shake.”

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he’s “deeply troubled” by reports that Israel used AI in its military campaign in Gaza, saying the practice puts civilians at risk and blurs accountability

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NEW: The US is stepping up pressure on Russia to support a UNSC resolution that would warn countries against placing nuclear weapons in orbit

WH spox: 'We look forward to Russia voting in favor of this resolution. There should be no reason why not.'
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Israel’s military offensive in Gaza has destroyed about $18.5 billion in infrastructure from housing to water, health and education structures, per new joint UN and World Bank report

via Eric Martin
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Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to extend a panel of experts that has reported on North Korea’s development of its nuclear arsenal for 15 years

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BREAKING: The UN Security Council approved a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, marking the first time the council has agreed to do so in the nearly six months since the Israel-Hamas war began

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza and an “ironclad commitment” by Israel for access to humanitarian aid during a visit to Rafah

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Russia and China vetoed the strongest move yet by the US to pressure Israel at the UN, saying that a resolution backing a truce in Gaza was still too weak

The draft cited “the imperative of an immediate and sustained ceasefire” while failing to demand one
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NEW: The US and Japan proposed a UN Security Council resolution that would warn that countries “should not develop nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction designed to be placed in orbit,” according to a draft seen by Bloomberg

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The US has introduced a UN General Assembly resolution promoting “safe, secure and trustworthy” AI systems, an effort to align global regulations amid growing legal, national security and human rights concerns over its rapid expansion bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

A measure of how well and how long people live offers fresh evidence of a growing split between rich and poor countries, according to the UN, which warned widening global inequality risks stoking polarization and gridlock

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Haiti’s PM to support a political process that would lead to fresh elections, signaling the US has lost faith in his ability to manage the country’s latest crisis

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Scoop: US is preparing a UN Security Council resolution that would warn against deploying nuclear weapons in space, per sources, as Biden admin seeks to dissuade Russia from potential plans to put a warhead in orbit. Alberto Nardelli Peter Martin Augusta Saraiva