Gaza: Strikes on houses and tents responsible for over half of deaths this week
629 Palestinians were reportedly killed over the past week, according to OHCHR in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. At least 358 were killed because of attacks...
Hurricane Melissa: Caribbean braces for destructive winds and ‘catastrophic rainfall’
“Destructive winds, dangerous storm surge, and catastrophic rainfall” are due to hit the region, warned UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric.Continuing to work closely with Resident...
Post-war order facing ‘greatest test since its creation’: UN relief chief
Tom Fletcher was addressing the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) which was set up by the UN General Assembly in the early 1990s as a...
Myanmar: Rights investigators reveal ‘systematic torture’, sexual violence
In its annual report released on Tuesday, the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (IIMM) said it had made “important progress” documenting crimes and identifying...
World News in Brief: Fighting intensifies in Syria’s Aleppo and South Sudan’s Jonglei state,...
Clashes between government troops and Kurdish forces have intensified in recent days and tens of thousands of people have been displaced. Representatives of the Office of the...
Science180 Reveals Mathematical Proof of God’s Existence that Atheists, Freethinkers, Rationalists, and Believers Will...
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Where have you ever read that the Earth was formed 2.82 days, the Moon 3.32 days, and the Sun 3.69 days...
World News in Brief: Gaza aid crisis worsens, South Sudan clashes, Ecuador oil spill...
“It has now been a month and a half since any supplies were last allowed through the crossings into Gaza,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric...
UN rights chief decries US treatment of migrants, as deaths in ICE custody rise
In a news release on Friday, High Commissioner Volker Türk said individuals suspected of being undocumented migrants are being surveilled, arrested and detained –...
‘Our kids cry for food’: Most Gaza families survive on one meal a day
The meals which families are able to obtain are nutritiously poor — thin broths, lentils or rice, one piece of bread or sometimes just...
Lebanon crisis: Health workers and facilities ‘targeted or hit’
The UN aid coordination office, OCHA, reported that ambulances and relief centres had been “targeted or hit in Lebanon, causing further casualties”, adding that...
‘Fear of war’ causing speech problems in Gaza
In a modest tent in a makeshift camp for displaced people west of the town of Al-Zawaida in Deir al-Balah governorate in Gaza, children...
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...
Aid cuts leave refugee agency unable to shelter six in 10 fleeing war in...
Globally, $1.4 billion of the agency’s programmes are being shuttered or put on hold, UNHCR said in a new report.“We can't stop water, you...
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: Families in ‘survival mode’ amid Russian strikes and deadly cold
“Families have actually reverted to stuffing even soft toys to their windows to block some of the freezing cold,” said Munir Mammadzade, UNICEF Country...
US cuts mean ‘essential’ UN mental health teams in Ukraine risk closure
A young mother, five children in tow, steps off a train in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, holding a small bag. She is...
‘Justice is long overdue’: Guterres calls for reparations for enslavement and colonialism
“Africa is a continent of boundless energy and possibility. But for too long, the colossal injustices inflicted by enslavement, the transatlantic slave trade and...
Parent, technician, farmer, merchant: What more can a teacher be?
On World Refugee Day, marked annually on 20 June, meet some of the multi-talented teachers and principals of migrant learning centres in Thailand along the border...
Guterres calls on US to exempt development and humanitarian funds from aid ‘pause’
President Trump’s executive order a week ago called for all foreign aid to be re-evaluated to ensure that it complies which his new foreign...
UN rights body sounds the alarm over South Sudan crisis
The arrest of First Vice President and main opposition leader Riek Machar, alongside mounting military clashes and reported attacks on civilian populations, signals a...
Sudan war: Life-saving cholera vaccination campaign begins in Darfur
The World Health Organization (WHO)’s Deputy Representative to the country Hala Khudari reported on Tuesday that the outbreak, which started in July 2024 in...
Dozens more migrants die after boat capsizes off the coast of Yemen
With many victims believed to be Ethiopian nationals, this heartbreaking incident highlights the “urgent need to address the dangers of irregular migration along the...
‘Giving help and giving hope’, an aerial lifeline to the world’s most isolated
The WFP’s Executive Director Cindy McCain said the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS), which is managed by the UN’s food agency, enabled humanitarians to...
Amid massive destruction of Gaza City, UN chief renews ceasefire call
“It is vital to reach immediately a ceasefire in Gaza,” the Secretary-General told reporters on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development...
