The Latest Breaking News from Stephane Dujarric

Israel has been pounding Gaza with airstrikes since Hamas militants carried out the brutal and unprecedented cross-border attack that killed more than 1,300

THE Israeli military have confirmed for the first time that ground troops have been operating inside the Gaza Strip.

More than 400,000 in Gaza were already internally displaced before Israel’s evacuation order, UN humanitarian office says

An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza on Thursday killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens more, said Gaza health authorities. As Gazans braced for a likely ground offensive, the Israeli army said they had bombarded the besieged enclave with…

Condolences and offers of support pour in from around the world after Morocco’s deadly earthquake.

A group of senior military officers in Gabon seized power in the early hours of Wednesday, shortly after the country's election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term. The United States, the UK, France and others condemned what appeared to be the eighth military coup in west…

Soldiers who overthrew the democratically elected president in July have quickly entrenched themselves in power.

The United Nations is warning that violence in eastern Congo has escalated significantly

The U.N. Security Council has failed to approve either of two rival resolutions authorizing the delivery of humanitarian aid to Syria’s rebel-held northwest from neighboring Turkey, officially ending the U.N. cross-border operation which had been vital to helping 4.1 million people

The United Nations is warning of a new threat to global food security

The United Nations is concerned about the continuous slowdown of the implementation of a Black Sea grain export deal between Russia and Ukraine, spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday.