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Emily Thornberry says recognition is vital step towards peace and without long-term solution war in Gaza will continue

UN officials say Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians at an aid convoy

The world's top court is poised to tell governments what their legal obligations are to tackle global warming, and possibly outline consequences for polluters that cause climate harm to vulnerable countries.

The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters' responsibilities towards the countries suffering most.

Today, business and human rights is a well-accepted field of study promulgated by academics, industry and civil society groups around the world. But in the mid-1990s, when a fledgling lawyer in England decided to sue a behemoth asbestos corporation in South Africa, the idea that corporations might have a responsibility…

Victims include 79 aid seekers who were gunned down in the north and 13 others killed in the south, medics say.

Barbie Reynolds, 76, and husband Peter, 80, have been held for five-and-a-half months without charge

Israeli forces open fire on hungry Palestinians near Gaza City in one of bloodiest incidents involving aid seekers

Iran's foreign minister has said the country France, Germany and the UK are looking to set a date for a meeting for nuclear talks, in what could be a step toward ending the protracted impasse over Iran's nuclear programme and Western concerns.