GENEVA - UNICEF said on Tuesday essential items including syringes to vaccinate children and bottles for baby formula are being denied entry into Gaza by Israel, preventing aid agencies from reaching those in need in the war-devastated territory.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. https://t.co/bF8s6foHdU

The World Bank backs language in a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on Gazathat would authorize a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body, according to a letter to the United States seen by Reuters. https://t.co/FecNhqv1M2

Two Reuters employees - a journalist and a security adviser accompanying her - were among those injured in the attack by the men who wielded sticks and clubs and hurled large rocks, in an area close to the Palestinian village of Beita. https://t.co/KuW3WS24DG

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The U.S. Army aims to buy at least a million drones in the next two to three years and could acquire anywhere from a half million drones to millions of them annually in the years that follow, Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll told Reuters in an interview. w/@idreesali114.

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The United Nations Security Council removed sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.

The UN Security Council on Thursday will start negotiations on a US-drafted resolution to endorse Trump's Gaza peace plan, said a senior U.S. government official, and authorize a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body and stabilization force.

The US will share a draft resolution on Trump's Gaza peace plan with the 10 elected UNSC members later on Wednesday, a U.S. official said. Representatives for Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE will join the U.S., "showing clear regional support," the official added.

The United States has proposed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution that would lift sanctions on Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, who is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.

The United States has drafted a United Nations resolution that approves a two-year mandate for a Gaza transitional governance body and an international stabilization force in the Palestinian enclave, according to the text seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

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The United States will in the coming days ask a U.N. Security Council committee to impose sanctions on seven ships suspected of violating U.N. sanctions on North Korea, a State Department official said on Monday.

President Donald Trump says he’s asked the Pentagon to prepare for possible military action in Nigeria if the Nigerian government "continues to allow the killing of Christians."

The United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday stating that genuine autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty could be the most feasible solution to Rabat's 50-year conflict with the Algeria-backed Polisario Front.

Men shot by the hundreds, disappeared after Sudanese city falls to paramilitaries, witnesses say https://t.co/YzIVO1tG2N

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The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on Friday on a resolution stating that genuine autonomy for Western Sahara under Moroccan sovereignty "could constitute a most feasible solution" to the 50-year-long conflict - with @AhmedEljechtimi