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At least 16 people were killed and more than 200 injured Thursday when a school used as a United Nations shelter came under fire in Gaza.

The situation in the occupied Gaza Strip is critical for the civilians living there and requires urgent attention.

After a week of direct actions protesting privatization and water service shutoffs, the people of Detroit reject a Wall Street-dictated world, decry commodification of the commons and push back …

A severe water crisis in financially bankrupt Detroit has prompted several NGOs to appeal for UN intervention.

Activists in Detroit have appealed to the United Nations over the cityu2019s move to shut off the water of thousands of residents.

The Millennium Development Goals will expire in 2015 and be replaced with the Sustainable Development Goals, which are intended to strengthen the international communityu2019s engagement with eradicating poverty and …

The UN's foremost expert on extrajudicial killing has called for international restrictions on the use of armed drones.

Homelessness in San Francisco has reached record highs, but the city provides multimillion-dollar tax breaks to companies like Twitter as it deems permanent supportive housing for the homeless too …

In Angelou's poem “A Brave and Startling Truth,” we can sense the poet's yearning for a more peaceful and loving future.

In this week's On the News Segment: The largest food companies are big polluters, and more.