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Sex trade to slavery: A UN agency says criminals reap $236B a year in profits from forced labor

Mar. 19, 2024 06:14 AM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — Illegal profits from forced labor worldwide have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year, the U.N. labor agency reported Tuesday, with sexual exploitation to blame for three-fourths of the take from a business that deprives migrants of money they can send home,...

UN reports a 35% increase in people affected by violence in South Sudan

Mar. 19, 2024 05:47 AM EDT

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The number of people affected by violence in South Sudan surged by 35% in the last three months of 2023, the United Nations reported. The U.N. Mission in South Sudan, or UNMISS, documented 233 incidents of violence affecting 862 people. Of that, 406 were...

Famine is said to be imminent in northern Gaza as Israel raids the main hospital again

Mar. 19, 2024 02:11 AM EDT

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Famine is imminent in northern Gaza, where 70% of people are experiencing catastrophic hunger, according to a report Monday that warned escalation of the war could push half of Gaza's total population to the brink of starvation. The report, by the...

Gambia lawmakers refer a repeal of the ban on female genital cutting to more committee discussions

Mar. 19, 2024 02:00 AM EDT

SERREKUNDA, Gambia (AP) — Lawmakers in Gambia referred an attempted repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions on Monday. Gambian activists fear a repeal would overturn years of work to better protect girls and women. The legislation was...

US and Japan seek UN resolution calling on all nations to ban nuclear weapons in outer space

Mar. 18, 2024 21:31 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the U.S. ambassador announced Monday. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a U.N. Security Council meeting that...

The Latest | Israeli military raids Gaza's main hospital, claiming Hamas is using it as a base

Mar. 18, 2024 20:50 PM EDT

Israeli forces launched a raid on Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Monday, accusing Hamas militants of using it as a base, while the U.N. food agency warned that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza. The military said it killed a Hamas commander who was armed and hiding inside...

Israel urges UN court to reject South Africa's request for more emergency orders in genocide case

Mar. 18, 2024 11:56 AM EDT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Israel has urged the top U.N. court to reject the latest request by South Africa for interim orders to prevent starvation in Gaza as part of a case accusing Israel of breaching the Genocide Convention with its military offensive against Hamas. In a...

UN food agency says ‘famine is imminent’ in northern Gaza, where 70% of the population likely faces catastrophic hunger

Mar. 18, 2024 07:05 AM EDT
CAIRO (AP) — UN food agency says ‘famine is imminent’ in northern Gaza, where 70% of the population likely faces catastrophic hunger.

AP reporters aboard a US military plane watch small batches of aid airdropped on a destroyed Gaza

Mar. 16, 2024 14:24 PM EDT

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) — As American military pilots closed in on the northern coast of Gaza, Associated Press journalists aboard the aid mission could hardly spot a single building left untouched by six months of brutal war. They watched as three tons of humanitarian...

North Korea's Kim enjoys a Russian luxury limousine gifted by Putin as the two nations expand ties

Mar. 15, 2024 23:04 PM EDT

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un used a Russian luxury limousine gifted by President Vladimir Putin, Kim’s sister said Saturday, praising the car’s “special function” and the two countries' deepening bilateral ties. In February, Putin sent Kim a...