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Latest stories
- Backing for UN call to end Cuba embargo falls to 20-year low
- UN human rights chief urges better protection of civilians in conflicts
- Civilians in Sudan’s El Obeid trapped between drones and incarceration
- Protecting the storytellers: Women journalists on the frontline of conflict
- Ending conflict is ‘number one thing’ to reduce world hunger, new WFP chief says
- DR Congo: WHO urges sustained efforts as Ebola cases top 10,000
- Ocean’s ability to absorb carbon is weakening as climate change intensifies, UN warns
- Record heat-related deaths in 2023, WHO-partnered report finds
- World News in Brief: ‘No safe place in Ukraine’, IAEA calls for Iran nuclear inspections, Kenya hosts thousands of Ethiopians fleeing clashes
- Four in five domestic workers lack formal job protections, UN finds
- Security Council LIVE: Women and girls face greater dangers in war
- Gaza: Families brace for fourth winter in tents as aid operations remain stymied
- General Assembly weighs US embargo against Cuba ahead of 34th vote
- Record carbon dioxide levels will impact us for centuries, says UN weather agency
- Kenya: 20 Ebola contacts released from quarantine
- World News in Brief: Ethiopians flee to Kenya amidst renewed conflict, new head of UN’s food programme, UN mission in Somalia concludes
- Women and girls’ share of civilian war deaths doubles since 2021
- West Bank: Hebron crackdown displaces thousands, Türk warns of ethnic cleansing
- Ukraine: Investigators find Russia committed war crimes by targeting civilians
- Ebola: UN officials condemn killing of nurse in DR Congo
- In Egypt, Guterres warns against Iran-US escalation
- Security Council LIVE: Children and war, ‘each one is a life’
- Why do planes keep circling before landing? The UN has a plan to fix it
- Women ‘first to suffer’ under siege, first to step up as frontline responders in Sudan
- UN marks 81 years of global cooperation
- Blood brothers: WHO chief joins ENHYPEN to celebrate drive success
- World News in Brief: Iran nuclear inspections, deadly church attack in Jordan, El Fasher – one year on
- West Bank: Guterres alarmed as Israel imposes sweeping closures after deadly Hebron attack
- Sudan: Drone strikes killed at least 306 people in three weeks
- Soil mapping aims to boost agricultural production in Kenya
- ‘Burden and loss’ builds in DR Congo, as Kenya strengthens Ebola containment
- Yemen: Deepening concerns for Taiz City as aid is blocked from entering
- World News in Brief: Russian attacks intensify, UN team tours West Bank, ‘unlawful’ elderly deaths
- First human case of Shamonda virus reported in France as patient dies
- Nepal’s deadly glacier flood a ‘defining moment’ for the international community
- Mothers get nearly eight times more paid leave than fathers – and women pay the price
- DR Congo: Ebola responders under pressure as outbreak expands
- ‘Connect the dots’ between street protests and global turmoil, urges Guterres
- Fate unknown of many returned to DPR Korea from China: UN independent experts
- ‘Ominous start’ to West Bank olive harvest amid settler attacks
- World News in Brief: Aid for Ethiopia, Abyei drone strikes condemned, extreme heat and newborn health
- Migrants paid up to $500 million in smuggling fees on European sea routes
- Summit in Samarkand, a boon for child wellbeing and health
- UN agencies appeal for help to protect weakest from unprecedented El Niño
- Sudan conflict: Peace efforts resume to end ‘drone war’ fuelling humanitarian crisis
- WHO supports Nigeria after first Ebola case confirmed
- Global warming will breach 1.5°C – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back
- AI on track to ‘crowd out’ human decision-making in warfare
- As Sudan war spills into Central African Republic, UN warns against early peacekeeper exit
- Bangladesh: UNICEF chief calls for an end to child marriage
- ‘One step away from famine’: Inside Afghanistan’s hunger crisis
- Yemen war continues to force families from homes amid hunger and disease
- UN condemns deadly wave of drone strikes in war-torn Sudan
- Hunger is ‘an avoidable tragedy’ in a world of plenty: Türk
- Haiti: Elections on hold as gangs adapt to security crackdown, Security Council hears
- ‘Season of fear’: Escalating Israeli attacks on West Bank olive farmers, deadly strikes on Gaza
- Guterres honours Indonesian troops who paid ‘ultimate sacrifice’
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