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Palestinian leaders stay the course as crises mount

 In three decades of failed peace efforts, the Palestinians have never faced a more hostile US administration, a more self-assured Israel or a more ambivalent international community. But even as their hopes for statehood have never seemed so dim, there's no indication their aging...

Lebanon rejects reform of UNIFIL force on Israel border

Lebanon Tuesday rejected an Israeli call to reform a UN peacekeeping force patrolling the border between the two countries days before a UN Security Council vote to renew its mandate. Lebanon and Israel are still technically at war, and the United Nations force, UNIFIL, is tasked with...

UN council rejects US demand to `snap back' Iran sanctions

The president of the UN Security Council Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s demand to restore all U.N. sanctions on Iran, a move that drew an angry rebuke from the US ambassador who accused opponents of supporting "terrorists." Indonesia’s ambassador to the UN, Dian Triansyah...