UN aid chief Tom Fletcher has demanded that Israel provide evidence for its accusations that staff with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs were affiliated with Hamas, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Friday. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

SCOOP: In early July, the US embassy in Pretoria asked Washington if non-whites can apply for Trump’s refugee program geared towards white South Africans. In response, State Dept’s top refugee official said the program was intended for white people. W/Ted Hesson

The United Nations food aid agency needs quick approvals by Israel for its trucks to move into Gaza if it is to take advantage of Israel's planned humanitarian pauses in fighting, a senior World Food Programme official said on Sunday.   reuters.com/world/middle-e…

UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said some movement restrictions appear to have been eased by Israel in Gaza on Sun after Israel decided to “support a one-week scale-up of aid.” He said initial reports indicate over 100 truckloads collected from crossings.. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Dozens of ministers will gather at the United Nations on Monday for a delayed conference to work toward a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians, but the U.S. and Israel are boycotting the event. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Famine is "playing out" in the Gaza Strip, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued on Tuesday as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly worsening conditions in the Palestinian enclave. With Michelle Nichols reuters.com/business/healt…

A worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in Gaza and immediate action is needed to end fighting and allow unimpeded aid access, a global hunger monitor warned on Tuesday, saying failure to act now would result in widespread death. reuters.com/business/healt…

Saudi Arabia and France on Tuesday called on countries at the United Nations to support a declaration that outlines "tangible, timebound, and irreversible steps" towards implementing a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear that he wants a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine by August 8, the United States told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. reuters.com/world/europe/t…

Trump administration officials told Congress that Israel agreed to match a U.S. award of $30 million to the GHF, sources told Reuters, a previously unreported contribution to the controversial aid operation. w/ Jonathan Landay Reuters Hümeyra Pamuk reuters.com/world/middle-e…

A United Nations report seeking ways to improve efficiency and cut costs has revealed: U.N. reports are not widely read. reuters.com/world/un-repor…

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Israel and Russia on Tuesday that he has significant concerns about patterns of certain forms of sexual violence by their armed and security forces, according to a report seen by Reuters. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

In an interview with Reuters, Prince said his company, Vectus Global, had reached a 10-year agreement with the Haitian government to fight the country's criminal gangs and set up a tax collection system. reuters.com/world/americas…

The United Nations Security Council started negotiations on Monday on a French-drafted resolution to extend a long-running peacekeeping mission in Lebanon and signal an intention to work on an eventual withdrawal of the U.N. troops. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Today is World Humanitarian Day. The UN said a record 383 aid workers were killed in 2024. So far in 2025 the UN said more than 260 humanitarians have been killed and at least 160 injured or abducted. A throwback to BEYONCÉ marking the day at the UN: youtu.be/i41qWJ6QjPI

Israel’s military announced the first steps of an operation to take over Gaza City on Wednesday and called up tens of thousands of reservists while the government considered a new ceasefire proposal to pause nearly two years of war. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

A 58% majority of Americans believe that every country in the United Nations should recognize Palestine as a nation, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, as Israel and Hamas considered a possible truce in the nearly two-year-long Gaza war. reuters.com/world/americas…

MOSCOW - Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters. reuters.com/world/china/pu…

Gaza City and surrounding areas are officially suffering from famine, and it will likely spread, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday, an assessment that will escalate pressure on Israel to allow more aid into the Palestinian enclave reuters.com/world/middle-e…

The hunger crisis in Gaza is at a tipping point, with critically low supplies of fortified milk and special nutritious pastes exacerbating food shortages and pushing greater numbers of children into starvation, according to aid agencies, experts and UN reuters.com/world/middle-e…