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Israel accused the United Nations Wednesday of seeking to "block" Gaza aid distribution, as the global body said it was doing its utmost to gather the limited assistance greenlighted by Israel's authorities.

Updated death toll comes amid condemnation of US-backed aid delivery scheme and Israeli bombing across the enclave.

Hundreds of Palestinians storm a UN food warehouse, leaving four people dead; Australia has highest bowel cancer rate in the world for under-50s

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As hunger grows in Gaza, hundreds of Palestinians stormed a United Nations warehouse on Wednesday in search of food. A day earlier, a crowd was fired upon while overrunning an aid distribution site set up by a new foundation backed by Israel and the United States. The U.N. has rejected…

Classing grievous acts of environmental harm as crimes against peace may hold states and corporations to account

Three open coffins, one adult-sized, one medium and one child-sized, lay inside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture in a northern Ukrainian city

Aid workers fear arrest and worsening of hunger crisis that already threatens millions of people.

A new report by U.N. experts on the criminal drug trade says the illicit trade in methamphetamine and other dangerous drugs is growing by leaps and bounds in Southeast Asia

A cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed 172 people, with more than 2,500 others becoming ill over the past week

Palestinians living in Gaza "deserve more than survival," the United Nations envoy for the Middle East told the Security Council on Wednesday, as Israel's war there enters its 600th day.