BEIRUT — Two senior UN officials on Tuesday urged a ceasefire in Lebanon after witnessing the dire circumstances facing families and children due to the...

TEHRAN — Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations in New York rejected claims linking Tehran to Hamas’ October 7 surprise attack on Israel, the...

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military says Iran has fired missiles at Israel, and is warning Israelis to shelter in place. The announcement Tuesday followed warnings from a senior US administration official that Iran was preparing to “imminently” launch a ballistic missile attack on Israel. The US official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the intelligence, said the US is actively supporting Israeli defensive preparations. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a warning Monday to Iran, which backs Hezbollah and Hamas. “There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach,” Netanyahu said, just days after an airstrike south of Beirut killed the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, which is backed by Tehran. The Israeli military earlier warned several southern Lebanese communities near the border to leave their homes, shortly after starting what it called a limited ground operation against Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah’s acting leader, Naim Kassem, promised the group will fight on following the death of its long-time chief Hassan Nasrallah and several of the group’s top...

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations and its partners have vaccinated against polio more than 560,000 children under 10 in the Gaza Strip, UN humanitarians...

UNITED NATIONS — Citizens from around the globe will gather here on Friday to show the uniting power of yoga across boundaries and divisions as...

BERLIN — At least 670 people are feared to have been killed by a landslide in Papua New Guinea, an International Organization for Migration (IOM)...

TEL AVIV — The aid worker of the United Nations (UN) who was killed while travelling in a vehicle to a hospital in the Khan...

ROME — Women who run farms and rural households in poor countries suffer more from climate change and are discriminated against as they try to...

UNITED NATIONS — The spillover of the Israel-Hamas conflict to “the vicinity of India” with attacks on shipping by Houthi rebels has an impact on...

Read below: Israel attempting to deport Palestinians from Gaza: UN official JERUSALEM — Israel has declared the expansion of its ground offensive in the central...