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More than half of the staff who died in action worked in Gaza, the UN chief said at the commemoration

“This tragedy weighs heavily on all of us and should shock the conscience of the whole world,” said Antonio Guterres. “Let me be clear. UN personnel should not be targeted. Attacks on peacekeepers and humanitarian workers are a violation of international lawincluding international humanitarian law.” Most recently, a UNIFIL peacekeeper was killed in Lebanon last week – the seventh since …

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House Cites Agencies Over $19M Airport Drug Bust

By Bridgett Milton & Kruah Thompson Capitol Hill, June 12, 2026 – The House of Representatives has summoned leaders of the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA), Liberia Immigration Service (LIS), Customs, and airport authorities to answer questions about a drug seizure valued at more than US$19 million at Roberts International Airport (RIA). The decision was made on Thursday after Bong …

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Court jails five men for 25 years each for supplying weapons to the Boko Haram network

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday sentenced five men to 25 years in prison each for their roles in a cross-border arms trafficking ring that allegedly supplied arms to Boko Haram-linked operatives in Niger State. The convicts – Yusuf Muhammad (alias Bature), Goni Ibrahim Bindi (alias Goni Mutuwa), Sani Tukur (alias Danladi), Mubarak Ibrahim and Musa Alhaji …

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A new attack in Tire killed eight people, while the UN put Lebanon’s destruction bill at $365 million, and rising

That evaluationcarried out by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in coordination with Lebanon’s National Council for Scientific Research and other partners, also estimated that the damage produced nearly 649,000 cubic meters of debris. The findings come amid renewed concern over the rising death toll and humanitarian suffering in Lebanon. According to media reports, Israeli airstrikes hit the southern coastal …

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