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The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Friday published a report accusing all parties to the messy civil war in the Congo of “violations of international humanitarian law that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.”

Days of heavy rainfall produced a devastating landslide in the Central Darfur region of Sudan on Sunday, wiping out a village called Tarasin and killing over a thousand people.

President of Argentina Javier Milei will reportedly withdraw his country from the U.N. Human Rights Council.

The Trump administration has directed American consular posts worldwide to halt approvals of nearly all visitor visas for holders of Palestinian passports, a policy that took effect August 31, 2025, and expands recent restrictions targeting Palestinian travel to the United States.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned France, Germany, and the United Kingdom for invoking the “snapback” provision of the Iran nuclear deal, beginning a 30-day countdown for United Nations sanctions to resume against Iran.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed Friday that the U.S. was “denying and revoking” the visas of senior Palestinian leaders who were set to have attended the opening of the United Nations General Assembly next month.

Rafael Grossi, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), confirmed this week that he would campaign to become the next secretary-general of the United Nations in 2026.

Russia is reportedly prepared to use its position as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) to protect Iran from “snapback” sanctions, which European leaders are threatening to invoke because Iran has failed to comply with its obligations under former president Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal.

Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil on Tuesday called for U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to help “restore common sense” and stop the United States’ ongoing efforts to combat drug cartels in Caribbean international waters — which the Venezuelan narco-state deems a “threat.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said on Monday that his government has no intention of deploying troops to help secure the borders of Ukraine.

During an interview with Maine Public Radio’s “Maine Calling” on Monday, Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) said that in Gaza, it’s “well-documented” that “a lot of the aid that is being distributed is being either given to Hamas or taken by

Former Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh described Hamas’s October 7 terrorist massacre as a “courageous and unprecedented operation” that marked “an important crossroad in the history of the Palestinian struggle,” while simultaneously calling for the terror group to join the Palestine Liberation Organization under unified Palestinian leadership.

President Donald Trump announced Saturday he will nominate Tammy Bruce, currently the State Department’s spokeswoman, to serve as Deputy U.S. Representative to the United Nations with the rank of ambassador.

Businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr took over as head of Haiti’s transitional government on Thursday, a few hours after infamous gang boss Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier told residents of Port-au-Prince to stay out of the way while his forces overthrow the government.

A Brazilian hotel in downtown Belém recently went viral on social media after it “rebranded” for the upcoming COP30 climate alarmism summit and made its rooms 100 times more expensive – defying government efforts to solve the city’s exorbitant lodging prices ahead of the event, the outlet G1 reported on Thursday.

The legal and judicial system of Afghanistan has been “weaponized” by its brutal Taliban terrorist rulers to oppress women and girls in what amounts to “crimes against humanity,” a U.N. investigator on human rights reported Thursday.

The United Nations has admitted that 88% of the aid trucks it brought into Gaza since mid-May were looted, or “diverted,” either by Hamas and other armed groups, or by mobs of Palestinian civilians.

A United Nations report commissioned to discover ways to improve efficiency and cut costs at the globalist institution has revealed one insight: U.N. reports are not widely read. If at all.

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder on Friday praised what he called a “welcome moment of moral clarity” as Arab League nations for the first time condemned the October 7 massacre and demanded Hamas disarm and relinquish control of Gaza.

The United Nations is continuing to struggle to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza, leaving hundreds of truckloads of material at the border, while the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) continues to succeed.

Representatives from 25 countries invited to the United Nations’ COP30 climate alarmism summit are pressuring the government of radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to relocate the event out of the city of Belém due to “exorbitant” lodging prices, Brazilian outlets reported on Thursday.

President Donald Trump’s administration slapped sanctions on the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for seeking statehood outside of a formal agreement with Israel, per U.S. law.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Source,” Hani Almadhoun, Senior Director of Philanthropy for UNRWA USA, responded to Israel pointing to statistics from the United Nations itself showing vast amounts of aid in Gaza has been intercepted by saying that Israel

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Arena,” CNN Senior Political and Global Affairs Commentator, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel discussed the situation in Gaza and stated that the United Nations is “not driving

The Trump administration delivered a forceful rejection of international efforts to pressure Israel into accepting Palestinian statehood, with the State Department declaring it “will not participate in this insult” as over 100 countries gathered at the U.N. in New York to push the failed two-state solution.

Video and photos emerged Monday of Gazans looting aid trucks provided by the United Nations and other aid agencies — a contrast to the trucks of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which have private security.

Rights chief slammed Britain’s ban on activist group Palestine Action as a “disturbing” misuse of UK counter-terrorism legislation.

The United Nations (UN) rejected an offer Wednesday from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to transport its aid, sitting idle after crossing into Gaza, for free, despite its claims Palestinians face starvation.

The United Nations’ top court ruled Wednesday that countries harmed by the effects of “climate change” could be entitled to reparations from countries that fail to “take appropriate action to protect the climate system.”

The administration of President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that it would withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), a global body most commonly known for keeping a catalogue of the world’s most culturally significant places.

The United States is severing ties with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) — the cultural engagement arm of the United Nations (U.N.) — citing the agency’s drift from its founding mission and embrace of radical ideologies such as globalist priorities, anti-Israel bias, and the admission of the “State of Palestine” as a Member State as incompatible with American interests.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says that the United Nations is no longer capable of delivering aid to Gaza, partly because its trucks are looted — and partly because some of its drivers work with Hamas.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi suggested in a letter to senior United Nations leaders, Iranian media reported on Monday, that the heads of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom “be held to account in international criminal tribunals as defendants for complicity in war crimes” for their support of Israel.

United Nations “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese made a public appearance on Tuesday in Bogotá, Colombia, following the State Department announcing sanctions on her for years of pro-Hamas, antisemitic rhetoric, delivering a speech calling for the destruction of Israel’s economy.

Nations agreed to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran by the end of August if there has been no concrete progress on a nuclear deal.