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As Haiti spirals deeper into crisis, gang violence killed nearly 200 people over the weekend. This takes the death toll in 2024 in Haiti to 5,000 people.

“A third of Pakistan flooded. Europe’s hottest summer in 500 years. The Philippines hammered. The whole of Cuba in a black-out."

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas appears at the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday to request an upgrade in the Palestinians' status at the world body.

Tuesday was the opening day of the UN General Assembly in New York City. President Obama opened the session. His speech was followed by addresses from a number of foreign dignitaries, including Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.

Countries need to step up assistance to Darfur, Sudan, or risk the situation getting much worse, says the United Nations' lead official on Humanitarian Crises. Jan Egeland says that after seeing improvements in 2005, more violence and more displacement have hurt the country.

The international body is following through on a resolution to memorialize the mass displacement of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 that coincided with the founding of Israel.

A U.N. report released Thursday evening concludes that high-ranking Syrian and Lebanese security officials were involved in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. A car bomb killed Hariri in Beirut in February 2005.

The United Nations Security Council has endorsed a U.S.-backed peace plan for Gaza, authorizing a temporary international force to help stabilize the enclave after two years of war.

The United Nations had viewed its 1999 intervention in East Timor as a success. That intervention allowed the installation of a democratically elected government in the tiny country. Recent violence has people questioning their assumptions about the intervention.

Iran has been suspended from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. This came as a reaction by the U.S. and other countries to Iran's crackdown on women's rights protesters.