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Haiti wonders what's next as gang violence surges and UN peacekeeping mission flops

Nov. 24, 2024 00:25 AM EST

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — When Kenyan police arrived in Haiti as part of a U.N.-backed mission earlier this year to tackle gang violence, hopes were high. Coordinated gang attacks on prisons, police stations and the main international airport had crippled the country’s capital...

A $300B a year deal for climate cash at UN summit sparks outrage for some and hope for others

Nov. 23, 2024 20:46 PM EST

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — United Nations climate talks adopted a deal to inject at least $300 billion annually in humanity’s fight against climate change, aimed at helping developing nations cope with the ravages of global warming in tense negotiations. The $300 billion will go to...

Here's what to know about the new funding deal that countries agreed to at UN climate talks

Nov. 23, 2024 19:20 PM EST

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — In the wee hours Sunday at the United Nations climate talks, countries from around the world reached an agreement on how rich countries can cough up the funds to support poor countries in the face of climate change. It's a far-from-perfect arrangement, with...

Nations at UN climate talks agree on $300B a year for poor countries to curb and adapt to warming in a compromise deal

Nov. 23, 2024 17:51 PM EST
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Nations at UN climate talks agree on $300B a year for poor countries to curb and adapt to warming in a compromise deal.

Key UN committee adopts resolution paving the way for a first-ever treaty on crimes against humanity

Nov. 23, 2024 01:08 AM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A key U.N. General Assembly committee adopted a resolution late Friday paving the way for negotiations on a first-ever treaty on preventing and punishing crimes against humanity after Russia dropped amendments that would have derailed the effort. The...

Middle East latest: Israeli strikes kill a hospital director in Lebanon and wound 9 medics in Gaza

Nov. 22, 2024 22:14 PM EST

Israeli airstrikes killed a hospital director at his home in northeastern Lebanon and six others, while at least five paramedics were killed by Israeli strikes in the country's south on Friday, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. In Gaza, Israeli strikes hit Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of...

UN expert: Myanmar's desperate military ramps up attacks including beheadings, rapes and torture

Nov. 22, 2024 18:16 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Myanmar’s desperate military junta is ramping up attacks on villages that have fallen to opposition groups, carrying out beheadings, gang rapes and torture, with women, children and the elderly among the victims, the U.N. independent human rights investigator for Myanmar...

A proposed deal on climate cash at UN summit highlights split between rich and poor nations

Nov. 22, 2024 16:28 PM EST

BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — A new draft of a deal on cash to curb and adapt to climate change released Friday at the United Nations climate summit pledged $250 billion annually by 2035 from wealthy countries to poorer ones. The amount pleases the countries who will be paying, but not those on the...

Many in Gaza are eating just once a day, as hunger spreads amid aid issues

Nov. 22, 2024 11:16 AM EST

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Yasmin Eid coughs and covers her face, cooking a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and scrap paper in the tent she shares with her husband and four young daughters in the Gaza Strip. It was their only meal Wednesday — it was all they...

More aid workers have been killed in 2024 than in any other year, UN says

Nov. 22, 2024 06:03 AM EST

GENEVA (AP) — More aid workers, health care staffers, delivery personnel and other humanitarians have been killed in 2024 than in any other single year, the United Nations reported Friday. Bloodshed in the Middle East has been the single-biggest cause of the 281 deaths among...