Twitter won't block world leaders from posting

Twitter said it doesn't plan to block world leaders from posting tweets because they "play a critical role" in the "global public conversation."

First aid arrives in Yemen since blockade. Re-opening the port "alone will not meet the needs of 28 million Yemenis."

Humanitarian aid and workers arrived in Yemen on Saturday, the first help to the Middle East nation since a blockade began three weeks ago.

UN Urges Saudi Coalition to End 'Catastrophic' Yemen Aid Blockade

The UN on Tuesday urged the Saudi-led coalition to end a blockade of Yemen which has halted the flow of humanitarian supplies into the country, further threatening some seven million people facing famine-like conditions.

Editor-in-Chief promises RT will carry on with its work despite UK bank account freeze

RT will seek ways to continue its work despite the channel’s bank accounts being closed in the UK, the TV channel’s Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan told TASS on Monday.

UN agency ramps up for Gaza reconstruction push. (UNRWA has consistently called for the lifting of the blockade)

UN, 19 October 2014 – A week after a major conference in Cairo on the reconstruction of war-ravaged Gaza, and in the wake of recent visits to Gaza by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Rami Hamdallah and United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, the key UN agency on the ground there has begun scaling up its response to meet critical needs of people in the Strip.
In a press release, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) announced today that it is now focusing on providing food, water and sanitation services to over 40,000 displaced people in 18 of its installations, psycho-social support particularly for children, cash grants to the homeless for rent, as well as urgent repairs to 118 UNRWA installations, so that we can bring our services to full capacity.