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Activists disrupt Amazon boss at UN over AI services to Israel

Pro-Palestinian activists have disrupted Amazon Vice President Werner Vogels' speech at the UN's 'AI for Good' summit

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Vanessa Frazier says growing impunity, weak accountability and a lack of political will are fuelling unprecedented violations against children in conflict, warning that even war has rules that states are increasingly failing to uphold.
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'Even war has rules': UN children envoy calls out state impunity

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Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (OCHA) Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher holds the Global Humanitarian Overwiew 2025 report during a press conference in Geneva on December 3, 2024.
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07 July, 2026
Women and children queue to receive free food being distributed in al-Mohayra camp for displaced people, near the city of El-Obeid in the southern Kordofan region
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Human rights catastrophe unfolding in Sudan's El Obeid: Turk

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
03 July, 2026
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Somalia peacekeeping mission at risk as US blocks UN support

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02 July, 2026
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UN chief slams 'relentless' Israeli settlement expansion

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Albanese says she 'pities' UN Watch chief over sanctions push

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Over 13 million acutely food insecure in Syria: UN

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23 June, 2026
Displaced Palestinians collect food from a community kitchen in the grounds of al-Faluja School in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip
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UN probe: Israel's targeting of children part of Gaza genocide

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23 June, 2026
Bedouin and tribal fighters deploy at the western entrance of Syria's Druze heartland of Sweida on July 18, 2025.
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Syria makes 'no progress' repairing Druze relations: UN

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23 June, 2026
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UN rights chief expresses concern at EU migration crackdown

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Gaza 'ceasefire' is a 'deadly illusion': UNICEF

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Sudan drones killed over 1,000 in first five months of 2026

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
15 June, 2026
The World Bank estimated in 2023 that there were up to 435 million online gig workers worldwide who largely fell outside regular labour protections. [Getty]
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World's first gig economy treaty adopted at the ILO

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12 June, 2026
A Yemeni man looks at artworks depicting the Yemen's Houthi groups' ban on Israeli and US linked ships amid the ongoing Israeli blockade of aid into the strip, placed alongside the wall of a main street on October 1, 2025 in Sana'a, Yemen.
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UN chief calls for release of personnel detained by Houthis

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
11 June, 2026
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UN's Guterres warns of risk of return to 'full war' in region

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
10 June, 2026
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What’s in a Name? How language legitimises Israeli oppression

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10 June, 2026
Food is distributed to displaced familes at a displacement centre in a school housing hundreds of displaced families fleeing fighting in the South of Lebanon
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UN doubles appeal for Lebanon aid to nearly $640 million

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05 June, 2026