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      Adla Massoud

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      Adla Massoud is The National’s New York and United Nations correspondent, where she reports on diplomacy, politics and the Middle East’s shifting conflicts. Also a documentary filmmaker, she was recognised in 2022 by the Arab Film and Media Institute as one of six “Rising Arab Women in Filmmaking.”
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      Displaced Palestinians receive food packages from a US-backed foundation pledging to distribute humanitarian aid in western Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2025. AFP
      What is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation?

      US-backed group faced chaotic scenes on first day of operations

      USMay 27, 2025
      Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud speaks at the UN Headquarters. Mr Hmoud, Jordan’s ambassador to the UN, was unanimously elected by the Security Council on May 27 to the International Court of Justice based in the Netherlands. Getty Images
      Mahmoud Daifallah Hmoud of Jordan elected to International Court of Justice

      Court is composed of 15 judges elected to nine-year terms by the UN General Assembly and Security Council

      NewsMay 27, 2025
      Pro-Palestine protesters demonstrate outside the UN headquarters in December 2023. AFP
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      France and Saudi Arabia call for action on two-state solution at June UN conference

      Paris could recognise a Palestinian state at the gathering

      MENAMay 23, 2025
      Destroyed buildings in the northern part of the besieged Gaza Strip on May 22. AFP
      Israel has authorised only a 'teaspoon' of aid into Gaza, says UN chief

      UN has enough aid to fill nearly 9,000 lorries but can't get it into Palestinian enclave

      USMay 23, 2025
      Palestinians queue at a food distribution point in a displacement camp near Gaza City's port on Thursday. AFP
      Eighty UN member states issue demand for protection of civilians in conflict

      Joint statement comes amid growing concerns over thousands of Palestinians in Gaza threatened with starvation

      NewsMay 22, 2025
      Pro Palestine protesters demonstrate outside UN headquarters prior to a vote at the General Assembly in New York City on December 12, 2023. AFP
      UN preparatory meeting in New York to lay ground for Palestinian statehood talks

      Diplomatic relations between Israel and France have become increasingly tense

      NewsMay 22, 2025
      Displaced families return to their village in Kafr Sijna, south of Idlib, after more than five years in the Atmeh camps near the Syrian-Turkish border. AP
      Fragmentation and renewed war still loom large for Syria, UN envoy warns

      About 16.5 million Syrians, nearly 70 per cent of the population, require protection and humanitarian aid, says Geir Pedersen

      MENAMay 21, 2025
      An Italian navy frigate escorts a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden, where Yemen's Houthi rebels have frequently attacked commercial ships. Photo: EUNAVFOR
      Maritime security deteriorating as piracy surges, warns UN chief

      Contested boundaries, depleting natural resources and escalating geopolitical tension driving conflict and crime at sea, says Antonio Guterres

      MENAMay 20, 2025
      Doctors said the cancer has spread to the bones of former US president Joe Biden. AFP
      Play01:10
      Former US president Biden has 'aggressive form' of cancer diagnosed, his office says

      Joe Biden was seen last week by doctors after showing symptoms and a prostate nodule was found

      USMay 18, 2025
      US Envoy Steve Witkoff said the US will not accept any uranium enrichment by Iran and aims to resolve the issue diplomatically. AFP
      US has 'very clear red line' on Iran enrichment capability, warns Witkoff

      The two sides are expected to meet in Europe this week

      USMay 18, 2025
      Israel's UN ambassador Danny Danon. EPA
      Israel says 'shocked' by top UN official's Gaza 'genocide' remark

      Danny Danon calls Tom Fletcher's comments 'outrageous and unfounded'

      MENAMay 16, 2025
      Ruby Chen, the father of hostage Itay Chen, during a visit to the Hostages Square in Tel Aviv. Reuters
      Play01:39
      We deserve closure, father of Gaza hostage says

      Ruby Chen, whose son Itay was taken into Gaza during attacks on October 7, 2023, tells The National the war 'has gone on far too long'

      USMay 16, 2025
      Soldiers from the Libyan National Army take part in a military parade in Benghazi city on May 7, 2018. AFP
      Libya recognises authority of ICC to investigate war crimes on its territory

      Chief prosecutor Karim Khan says progress made in uncovering 'black box of suffering on the Mediterranean coast'

      USMay 15, 2025
      Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 78th Session of the U. N. General Assembly in New York City, U. S. , September 21, 2023. REUTERS / Brendan McDermid
      Palestine's Abbas urges more action to end Gaza war at UN Nakba event

      World body passed historic resolution in 2022 to recognise mass displacement of Palestinians in 1940s

      MENAMay 15, 2025
      A distraught Palestinian child receives food cooked by a charity kitchen, in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip, on May 8. Reuters
      UK rejects any Gaza aid distribution plan that endangers vulnerable civilians

      US and Israel have announced plans for a new distribution procedure in the enclave, bypassing UN-led channels

      MENAMay 13, 2025
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