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The UN's Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), MONUSCO, has announced that they rescued five civilians late last week during operations in the DRC's Ituri province, in the north-east of the country. A Rescue The five civilians that were rescued, which included a woman and two children, had been kidnapped near the town of Dyamba in the Ituri...

What's Happening The UN Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) has issued a review of the UK in which it urges the nation to abandon its plan to deport illegal migrants and illegal asylum seekers from the UK to Rwanda. The UNHRC said they "regretted" the UK's plan, as well as the UK's "efforts to adopt the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration)...

What's Happening Japan has announced that they are going to be reinstating funding to the UNRWA, the UN organization which handles UN operations for Palestinians, including within Gaza. Japan joins a growing list of nations and groups that have reinstated funding to the UNRWA, with Canada, Sweden, and Finland also having recently reinstated funding. The Japanese announcement comes after Japan's Foreign...

What Happened Yet another ceasefire resolution in the UN Security Council (UNSC) has failed to pass after both Russia and China exercised their veto rights in order to veto the US proposed ceasefire resolution. Russia and China stated that their reason for the veto was the language which the US resolution used. They said that since the proposal said it was...

What Happened: The 27 leaders across the EU had previously been deeply divided and had failed to unify the EU's official response. After talks on Thursday, after a long conversation on creating a statement that all 27 leaders agreed with, leaders announced that they are shocked by the "catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza and its disproportionate effect on civilians" as...