United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for mediation in the eastern Congo ahead of two meetings to address the Rwandan-backed M23 rebel group's offensive across the region.
A third contingent of Kenyan police have arrived in Haiti to help repel violent gangs as officials brushed off concerns of a halt in some U.S. funding to the U.N.-backed mission.
Fantasies of swift solutions are so much simpler than the hard work of temporarily housing Gazans while reconstruction commences, and negotiations proceed towards some form of Palestinian homeland.