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23.08.2025 14:00 Finland's Foreign Ministry has summoned Israel's ambassador to Helsinki in response to Israel's illegal plans to occupy Gaza City and construct new settlements in the occupied West Bank.

23.08.2025 14:00 The Foreign Secretary has issued a statement in response to the famine declared in the Gaza Governorate as determined by the Famine Review Committee.

23.08.2025 14:00 An international rights group has urged the United Nations General Assembly to invoke a historic resolution allowing it to bypass the world body's Security Council and deploy a peacekeeping force to the Gaza Strip.

23.08.2025 14:00 The international charity Oxfam says the UN-backed food security body's declaration of famine in Gaza City confirms what the charity and its partners have been documenting for months across the besieged Palestinian territory.

23.08.2025 14:00 Yemen's Armed Forces have fired a hypersonic ballistic missile and several armed drones past the Israeli regime's interception systems, hitting critical enemy targets in their latest pro-Palestinian operation.

23.08.2025 14:00 A new round of United States sanctions against two judges and two deputy prosecutors of the International Criminal Court are a direct assault against the independence of the tribunal and a devastating blow to victims worldwide, UN experts* warned today.

23.08.2025 14:00 China has deployed an array of armed coast guard forces near the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea — one in a series of Chinese actions that the Philippines' defense chief on Friday called "a matter not only of concern but of condemnation."

23.08.2025 14:00 The Philippine Navy is not intimidated by the increased presence and activities of Chinese vessels in Ayungin Shoal in the West Philippine Sea , saying there is nothing new to it.

23.08.2025 14:00 Brutal attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on the besieged city of El Fasher and the adjoining Abu Shouk camp for displaced persons in North Darfur, Sudan, resulted in the killing of at least 89 civilians over a 10-day period up to 20 August.

23.08.2025 14:00 On 1 July, in accordance with paragraph 18 of resolution 2731 , the Panel of Experts on South Sudan transmitted its final report to the President of the Security Council . The report is available on the Committee's website via the following link: https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/sanctions/2206/panel-of-experts/reports.

23.08.2025 14:00 US and Qatari diplomatic efforts to bring a lasting peace to the Democratic Republic of the Congo have not yet led to improved conditions on the ground, where the security situation remains dire, the UN Security Council heard on Friday.

23.08.2025 14:00 Light of Diplomacy Dimmed by Rising Violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Delegate Tells Diplomatic gains fall short without a genuine ceasefire in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a senior United Nations official told the Security Council today, warning that the country is facing one of the most acute humanitarian emergencies worldwide.

23.08.2025 14:00 Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

23.08.2025 14:00 Entrusted by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, members of a central delegation on Thursday visited local officials and residents in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region.

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