The UN mission in Libya has issued a statement calling on warring sides to implement a week-long humanitarian ceasefire starting from Monday, the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Libya.

Palestine says a ceasefire agreement has been reached with Israel, after 25 people were killed in three days of Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza enclave, which were responded to with homemade rockets from Palestinian groups.

A United Nations team has regained access to grain in Yemen that could feed more than 3.7 million people for a month, in a country "gripped with the world's largest humanitarian crisis" but the cereal is partially infested and must first be fumigated, UN officials say.

The United States has backed Israel’s deadly airstrikes and shelling of the Gaza Strip, describing the attacks as an act of self-defense.

The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) hailed Sunday the consensus reached between the country's warring parties to extend the period by six months to form a power-sharing government.

A flare-up of violence in the Gaza Strip has entered its third day with deadly Israeli airstrikes and retaliatory Palestinian rocket attacks, prompting the United Nations (UN) to raise alarm at the “dangerous escalation.”

European parties to Iran nuclear deal have criticized recent US decisions to restrict oil trade with Iran and to limit the extension of waivers for nuclear non-proliferation projects.

The US State Department has approved a possible $6 billion worth of weapons sales to Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in three separate packages, the Pentagon announced on Friday after notifying Congress of the certification.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says nearly 400 people have been killed and a lot more injured since Libya’s renegade general Khalifa Haftar launched a major military offensive to seize the Libyan capital of Tripoli last month.

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Friday it was alarmed by reports that migrants and asylum seekers who are being held in Hungarian detention centres are being “deliberately deprived of food in contravention of international laws and standards”.