The UN had plans to build a city that would serve as its headquarters and the world's capital. A World War II Scituate spy base was key.

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Kathrin Meyer, departing cretary-general of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said she considers Holocaust ...

The current conflict in the DRC is not just a crisis of governance or ethnic tensions but a direct continuation of a colonial ...

JERUSALEM — Israel and Hamas were set to carry out their third hostage-prisoner exchange on Thursday, with three Israelis and ...

Donald Trump’s return to the US Presidency was disruptive and dishonest, demonstrating disregard for the truth, the rule of law, and domestic and international conventions. Fact-checking organisation ...

Iman Helles, a displaced mother sheltering in a facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza, fears that ...

Israel has formally banned the main United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees from operating on its territory despite heavy diplomatic backlash ...

Bill Deere, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNWRA), discussed ...

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