Mike Waltz faces confirmation hearing to be UN ambassador
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U.N. health officials have estimated that more than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year.
Senator Jacky Rosen, raising the salary issue, contrasted Waltz's actions with his vow to "root out waste and unnecessary overhead at the UN." Trump has aggressively cut US assistance overseas and pulled the United States out of several UN-backed bodies.
The three independent experts cited personal reasons and a need for change, in the first such group resignation since the Human Rights Council was founded.
The U.N. rights office said on Tuesday it had recorded at least 875 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and convoys run by other relief groups,
LONDON — More than 14 million children did not receive a single vaccine last year — about the same number as the year before — according to U.N. health officials. Nine countries accounted for more than half of those unprotected children.
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A U.N. official says the pace and scale of Afghans returning from Iran are overwhelming already fragile support systems.
A rescheduled United Nations conference this month will discuss post-war plans for Gaza and preparations for the recognition of a Palestinian state by France and others, France's foreign minister said on Tuesday.
The call from UN rights chief Volker Turk came the day after US President Donald Trump told Moscow to end the war within 50 days or face massive new economic sanctions. Trump also laid out plans for infusions of weaponry for Kyiv via NATO. In recent weeks ...