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At the end of August, the Trump administration blocked Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and 80 other Palestinian officials from attending the UN general assembly meeting in New York, which runs between September 9 and 23. The US president’s decision to revoke the Palestinian officials’ US visas comes as various European…

As Europe urges Washington to honour its UN obligations over Palestinian visas, RFI spoke to international law professor François Dubuisson about the wider implications of the US administration's move to block the entry of Palestinian delegates onto American soil.

From Balfour declaration to Tony Blair, UK has struggled to drive meaningful progress towards peace in Middle East

COMMENT: In the decades since the 1917 Balfour Declaration, the UK has broadly supported official recognition of a state of Palestine. So why has it taken more than a century for a government to sign up to it, asks Donald Macintyre

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations at its headquarters in New York and at its far-flung global operations

In the late 1960s, the prevailing opinion among Israeli Shin Bet intelligence officers was that the key to defeating the Palestinian Liberation Organisation was to assassinate its then-leader Yasser Arafat.

Ancient artefacts from Gaza – amphorae, statues, mosaics, funerary steles and more – tell the story of 5,000 years of a civilisation, in a Paris exhibition that seeks to preserve a heritage on the brink of erasure.

Throughout his 2024 campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump made diplomatic resolution of the Ukraine-Russia war a major priority, suggesting that he could bring peace within “24 hours.” Even before Trump resumed office in January 2025, as president-elect he named envoys and held preliminary discussions with a variety of leaders.

Concern is growing within the Palestinian Liberation Organization that Israel might exploit Abbas’s departure.

As pressure mounts ahead of a key UN summit, France is weighing whether to recognise a Palestinian state – a move President Emmanuel Macron says could come within months. The two-state solution has been the guiding principle of French diplomacy in the Middle East for 70 years, and while the…

Donald Trump may have begun discussions with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over a possible end to the war in Ukraine, but there currently appears to be something of a stalemate.