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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the ongoing conflict between the United States and Iran is putting millions of people at risk of hunger. In an analysis, the WFP said the continuation of the conflict’s effect on oil prices has “profound implications” for global food...

The United States has imposed a host of new sanctions related to Cuba, amid a months-long pressure campaign against the island nation. The sanctions on Thursday were announced hours after United Nations experts decried Washington’s effective fuel blockade of the island as tantamount to “energy...

Amnesty International has called for a United States air strike on a migrant detention center in Yemen to be investigated as a possible war crime. In a report released on Tuesday, the rights group said the strike on April 28, 2025, hit a detention facility in Saada in northwestern Yemen, killing at...

Israel and Lebanon on Thursday, April 23, extended a shaky ceasefire by three weeks, President Donald Trump announced on Thursday, April 23, as he voiced hope for a historic three-way meeting soon and a potential peace deal. Trump, at a standstill in negotiations with Iran, spoke in glowing terms of...

The Iran war will push more than 30 million people back into poverty, with the knock-on effects of the conflict likely to increase food insecurity in the coming months, the United Nations has warned. Disruption to fuel and fertilizer supplies due to the ongoing blocking of cargo vessels through the...

President Donald Trump on Tuesday, April 21, extended the US ceasefire with Iran to allow more time for talks, just hours before hostilities were set to resume, but he vowed to maintain a blockade of Tehran's ports. Trump indefinitely pushed back the end of the truce, crediting a request from...

Israeli and Lebanese officials have held their first direct negotiations since 1983, as Israel continues its deadly military campaign against Hezbollah. Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Lebanon has tested the fragile ceasefire struck on April 8, which paused the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran...

The United Nations secretary-general on Wednesday, April 8, warned that deadly Israeli strikes on Lebanon posed a "grave risk" to the fragile U.S.-Iran truce, his spokesperson said in a statement. "The ongoing military activity in Lebanon poses a grave risk to the ceasefire and the efforts toward a...

United States President Donald Trump has agreed to suspend his planned bombing of Iran for two weeks, following his threat that “a whole civilization will die tonight” if Tehran did not comply with his demands. On Tuesday evening, within hours of the planned attack, Trump took to his platform Truth...

The U.S.-Israel war on Iran has not paused. The strikes have not stopped from either side. However, diplomacy is now moving at a pace not seen since the conflict that affected Iran’s neighbors and rattled the world economy for a month. Two-day consultations of foreign ministers of Turkiye, Saudi...