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Israel

UN chief to make visit amid Israel-Palestinian tensions

JERUSALEM (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a surprise visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Tuesday, in a high-profile gambit to bring an end to the monthlong wave of violence that has plagued the region. The visit comes amid unrest that erupted in Jerusalem a month

Israel

UN chief to Knesset speaker: ‘Iran deal is not perfect’

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met in New York on Friday with visiting Israeli Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and told him that while the nuclear deal with Iran was "good," it was "not perfect." "There are no perfect agreements," Ban told Edelstein.

Barack Obama

Experts: ISIS atrocities are genocide

Written by Brian Pellot (RNS) A multifaith group of religious freedom advocates this week called on President Obama and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to declare "that the Islamic State's actions against religious and ethnic minority populations in the Middle East is genocide."