World News in Brief: Shipwreck off Italy kills at least 27, anniversary of Taliban...
UNHCR is supporting at least 60 survivors who have been brought ashore, but the Italian coast guard warned more bodies could still be recovered....
UN agency rolls out three-year plan to safeguard Ukraine’s bread basket
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released its emergency response and early recovery plan, outlining priority measures to protect agricultural livelihoods, restore production...
Sudan emergency: We need more help to prevent famine, says WFP
“Over the past six months, WFP scaled up assistance and we are now reaching nearly one million Sudanese in Khartoum with food and nutrition...
Gaza: Hospitals rationing critical supplies, ambulances stalling
What little fuel remains is powering essential operations, but it is running out fast, and there are virtually no additional accessible stocks left, UN...
Gaza: 10,000 aid trucks reached enclave since ceasefire began
Announcing the development, the UN’s top aid official, Tom Fletcher, said that the trucks contained lifesaving food, medicine, and tents – all desperately needed...
Gaza: ‘Sickening normalisation’ of suffering, amid attacks on people and aid convoys
According to local media reports, 30 Palestinians were killed in the central Gaza area overnight on Friday due to airstrikes, said Louise Wateridge, Senior...
Field of Dreams: Football Breathes Life into Yemen’s Camps
The tournament is more than a sporting event. It’s a lifeline. In Ma’rib Governorate, where over 2.3 million internally displaced people have settled, families...
Historic first medal for Refugee Olympic Team
The 25-year-old was the first boxer to qualify for the Refugee Olympic Team, and now she is slated to win gold, silver or bronze later...
UN welcomes Black Sea talks, warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine
In a statement, Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for Secretary-General António Guterres, said the UN chief’s good offices remain available to support all efforts towards a...
The UN housing development which challenged 1940s’ segregated United States
In the United States of that period, laws in many states enforced separate schools, transportation and bathrooms based solely on race. The military was...
Sudan war: Displacement figures fall for first time
However, the country remains in the grip of one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with millions facing famine, disease and insecurity.IOM data shows...
Children’s lives ‘turned upside down’ by wars across Middle East, North Africa, warns UNICEF
Alarmingly, 110 million children in the region live in countries affected by war, with homes, schools and health facilities damaged or destroyed in fighting.
“A...
Myanmar: UN WFP pushes to reach flood-affected communities
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that initial reports indicated that hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland have been inundated. In the...
Ukraine in grip of third winter of escalating Russian attacks
In a scheduled update mandated by the Council in Geneva, Nada Al-Nashif said that these attacks had led to the deaths of 574 civilians...
Syria’s humanitarian needs remain high despite reduced violence, UN warns
Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, Rosemary DiCarlo, head of UN political affairs, and Joyce Msuya, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, said Syrians have made...
‘The people of Haiti are in a perfect storm of suffering,’ warns UN chief
Six million people are in need of humanitarian assistance, while 1.3 million people – half of them children – having been forced to flee...
DR Congo: Displaced people in South Kivu close to ‘utter desperation’, WFP says
That’s according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which announced on Tuesday that it is scaling up to deliver aid to more than 210,000 people displaced by the violence after a new...
Funding shortages threaten relief for millions of Sudanese refugees: WFP
In an alert, the UN agency warned that it faces having to make “drastic cuts” to life-saving food assistance, which may “grind to a...
He can assist scientists who haven’t understood the universe-origin properly
Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com).
Most people in the whole world are interested in understanding the origin of the universe, but most of them don’t know...
Gaza: 875 people confirmed dead trying to source food in recent weeks
“As of 13 July, we have recorded 875 people killed in Gaza while trying to get food; 674 of them were killed in the...
‘Keep the lights on’ for women and girls caught up in crisis
The UN’s reproductive health agency, UNFPA, has been working to assess the impact of recent steep funding cuts, warning that from the Democratic Republic...
One in four female genital mutilation cases now carried out by health workers
While the health sector worldwide plays a key role in stopping the abusive practice of FGM and supporting survivors, in several regions, evidence suggests...
Gaza: UN agencies calls for aid ‘surge’ as Israeli distribution plan begins
After nearly three months of complete blockade by Israel, a “vastly insufficient” amount of aid was finally allowed into the war-ravaged enclave in the...
Asia: Lives upended by cyclones, ‘extreme’ rainfall on the rise, warn UN agencies
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) spokesperson Clare Nullis told reporters in Geneva that Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam are among the...
