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This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
UN humanitarian official tells the Security Council that aid to starving Sudanese is being blocked
A U.N. humanitarian official tells the Security Council that life-saving supplies are “ready to be loaded and dispatched” to a famine-stricken displacement camp in Sudan but the civil war’s combatants won’t let them through.
 
FILE - A motorist passes by a flag of the Islamic State group in central Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, on July 22, 2014. The U.S. Central Command said Wednesday, July 17, 2024 that the Islamic State group is trying "to reconstitute” as the number of attacks in Syria and Iraq is on track to double those of the previous year. (AP Photo, File)
UN envoy warns that threat of terrorism is `resurging’ with attacks by Islamic State extremists
The top U.N. envoy for Syria told the Security Council the threat of terrorism is “resurging” with attacks by Islamic State extremists set to double this year, endangering civilians already facing a “protracted state of displacement and dire humanitarian conditions.”
 
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a press conference at the Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, July 22, 2024. (Roberto Schmidt/Pool Photo via AP)
US ambassador announces $60 million in aid and new resources for police during visit to Haiti
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has announced $60 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Haiti during a trip to the troubled Caribbean country. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield also says the U.S.
 
FILE - Smoke rises over Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, June 8, 2023, as fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces continues. The United Nations was hosting closed-door talks in Geneva Thursday July 11, 2024 involving Sudan’s warring sides about how to protect civilians and ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid. (AP Photo, File)
US announces $203 million in new aid to war-torn Sudan amid major humanitarian crisis
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has announced nearly $203 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Sudan.
 
FILE - Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Yekaterinburg, Russia, June 26, 2024. The U.S. Ambassador told Russia’s foreign minister on Tuesday, July 16, that President Vladimir Putin should release detained Americans, singling out Gershkovich and ex-Marine Paul Whelan and accusing the Russian leader of continuing to treat “human beings as bargaining chips.” (AP Photo, File)
Russian minister says US ‘isn’t helping’ by bringing up prisoner swap talks on reporter Gershkovich
Russia’s foreign minister blamed “the Americans” for publicly bringing up a possible prisoner exchange involving imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, which he said “isn’t helping.”
 
FILE - An unidentified representative of the junta waves from a military vehicle as Malians supporting the recent overthrow of President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita gathers to celebrate in the capital Bamako, Mali, on Aug. 21, 2020. The coup-hit nations of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso were meeting on Saturday, July 6, 2024 in their first regional summit that officially sets them apart from the West Africa regional bloc after earlier announcing they were leaving the bloc. (AP Photo/File)
Terrorism and organized crime rampant in Sahel and spilling into West Africa coastal states, UN says
A U.N. envoy says terrorism and organized crime by violent extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State are a “pervasive threat” in Africa’s volatile Sahel region.
 
FILE - Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, speaks after a meeting of the United Nations Security Council Thursday, Aug. 24, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. The United States has signed a memorandum with several of the world’s biggest social media companies aimed at preventing the use of their platforms for the distribution of synthetic drugs. Thomas-Greenfield told the signing ceremony Thursday, July 11, 2024, that “Technology companies have a critical role to play in both stopping the illegal manufacturing, trafficking and marketing of synthetic drugs, and just as importantly, educating the public.” (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
US signs agreement with 3 social media giants aimed at preventing distribution of synthetic drugs
The United States has signed a memorandum with several of the world’s biggest social media companies aimed at preventing the use of their platforms for the distribution of synthetic drugs. U.S.
 
FILE - Somali refugee children cover themselves as a dust storm moves across the Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya, July 13, 2023. The U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, declared 2025 to 2034 the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms — extreme weather events that are increasing and threatening health and economies from central Africa to northern China. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
UN declares 2025 to 2034 the decade to combat increasing sand and dust storms from Africa to China
The U.N. General Assembly has declared 2025 to 2034 the United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms — extreme weather events that are increasing and threaten health and economies from central Africa to northern China.
 
This is a locator map for Yemen with its capital, Sanaa. (AP Photo)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels could free a rival political leader held incommunicado since 2015, UN says
Yemen’s Houthi rebels could free a political leader with ties to the internationally recognized government who has been detained for nearly a decade, under a preliminary prisoner swap deal announced by the United Nations.
 
A Kenyan police officer patros an area near the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, July 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
Haiti’s prime minister says Kenyan police are crucial to controlling gangs, early days are positive
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping control the country’s gangs and moving toward democratic elections.
 
UN launches global road safety campaign in US with goal of halving the number of victims by 2030
The United Nations has launched its global road safety campaign in the United States, which aims to halve the number of road-related victims worldwide by 2030.