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Russia, China veto US resolution calling for immediate cease-fire in Gaza fails
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (not pictured) following a meeting between the U.S. top diplomat and Arab envo...
Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News Mar 22, 2024

Israeli military warns Gazans to evacuate Al-Shifa Hospital as raid continues
Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images(TEL-AVIV, Israel) -- Displaced Gazans at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza were reportedly being told to evacuate immediately Thursday, as Israel's raid on t...
Mary Kekatos, ABC News Mar 21, 2024

Three London Clinic staffers investigated for trying to access Kate Middleton's medical records: Report
Police officers stand guard outside the London Clinic after the UK's Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton underwent planned surgery in London, United Kingdom on January 18, 2024. Princess of Wales will s...
Katie Kindelan, ABC News Mar 21, 2024

Sudan now ‘1 of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory:' UN
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Humanitarian organizations are sounding alarm over the crisis in Sudan, warning the conflict has created "one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory."Spea...
Emma Ogao, ABC News Mar 21, 2024

Gaza reaches 'tipping point,' doctors tell UN in plea for help
A woman and her daughter sit at a nutritional stabilization center in Gaza in March, in a photo supplied by MedGlobal. (MedGlobal)(UNITED NATIONS) -- At the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, fou...
Camilla Alcini, ABC News Mar 21, 2024

Famine-imminent conditions in Gaza 'unprecedented': UN official
Palestinians receive food rations at a donation point at a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Feb. 2, 2024, as fighting continues between Israel and the Palestin...
Jianna Cousin, ABC News Mar 21, 2024

US submits draft UN resolution for "immediate cease-fire tied to the release of hostages," Blinken says
pawel.gaul/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for "an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages," Secretary of State Ant...
Lauren Minore, ABC News Mar 21, 2024

US airlifts more than 30 citizens out of Haiti's capital amid gang rebellion: Officials
Diplomatic Security Services/X(WASHINGTON) -- As a gang-led rebellion continues to surge through Haiti, the U.S. on Wednesday orchestrated two helicopter airlifts from Port-au-Prince -- evacuating mor...
Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News Mar 21, 2024

'Most valuable treasure': $17 billion Spanish shipwreck from 1708 to be recovered
Bruce Yuanyue Bi/Getty Images(CARTAGENA, Colombia) -- Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially discovered, the estim...
Leah Sarnoff, ABC News Mar 20, 2024

Private US firm wants to coordinate aid boats to Gaza
MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A private U.S. advisory firm of former senior American military, CIA and humanitarian officials is proposing to operate the anticipated daily deployment...
Anne Flaherty, ABC News Mar 20, 2024
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