Lebanon war: Essential services in south facing collapse, warns UN
“Today, Israeli airstrikes hit the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, yet again... As the theatre and intensity of the exchanges of fire continue to...
Science180 Publishes Landmark Mathematical Framework Claiming Proof of God and Timelines for Cosmic and...
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Dr Nathanael-Israel Israel, an American researcher, states that he has mathematically calculated that Earth emerged 2.82 days after the universe began, followed shortly...
Aid continues despite winter hardship in Gaza and West Bank, UN says
That’s according to UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric, briefing journalists in New York on Thursday.Citing the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, Mr. Dujarric said humanitarian...
Syria: Effort to buttress human rights since Assad’s fall, ‘only the beginning of what...
OHCHR is calling for more action to end the violence and achieve justice.“While the interim authorities have taken encouraging steps towards addressing past violations, these steps are only the beginning of what needs...
Gaza: ‘Every day without a ceasefire will bring more tragedy’
Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini stressed that no place and no one in Gaza has been safe since the war began in October 2023.
“As the year...
World News in Brief: UNAMA concern over migrant deaths, ‘war tactics’ in the West...
The alleged attack occurred on 14 to 15 October in the Kala Gan border area of Iran’s Sistan Province near the Iran-Pakistan border. The organisation...
Gaza: Health system crumbles amid growing desperation over food, fuel
“Definitely, people get shot,” said Gaza-based medic Dr. Luca Pigozzi, WHO Emergency Medical Team Coordinator. “They are victim of blast injuries as well and...
Sudan: Civilian death toll triples in one week amid escalating hostilities
This figure represents a threefold increase from the previous week, when at least 89 civilians lost their lives amid the ongoing hostilities.The crisis is...
Human rights expert welcomes clemency for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier
The Executive Grant of Clemency, signed on Sunday just hours before Mr. Biden left office, commutes Mr. Peltier’s life sentences to home confinement, allowing...
World News in Brief: Famine spreads in Sudan, deadly attack in Myanmar, Venezuela update
The World Food Programme (WFP) provided lifesaving assistance to 7.8 million people, while the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reached nearly three million children with...
World News in Brief: Türk condemns ‘abhorrent’ attack in Sydney, UNHCR chief calls for...
Volker Türk said the “heinous” shootings targeting a Hannukah celebration on Bondi Beach exposed again that “antisemitism is real, and it is abhorrent.”Australia’s Prime...
UN support continues in Syria and Lebanon
Geir Pedersen has been meeting with French, German and Russian authorities, the UN reported on Monday, which includes engagement with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister...
Syria: Relative of Assad regime’s disappeared speaks of anguish in search for truth and...
Obeida Dabbagh’s brother Mazen, and nephew Patrick – both Syrian-French nationals – were arrested by Air Force Intelligence officials in November 2013.Held for years...
Tens of millions risk starvation as funding cuts deepen crises in DR Congo: WHO,...
The United Nations agency has received only $1.57 billion of the $21.1 billion required to sustain its operations this year, with donations slashed by...
UN humanitarian chief demands resumption of aid in Gaza
No aid has entered the enclave since Israel implemented a ban on 2 March and the entire population, more than two million people, is...
Sudan war: Hundreds of thousands flee renewed violence in North Darfur
Renewed attacks on camps – including Zamzam and Abu Shouk – that were sheltering those displaced by earlier violence have now forced an estimated...
Haiti gangs crisis: Top rights expert decries attacks on hospitals
William O’Neill, who reports to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, highlighted an attack on the Bernard Mevs Hospital in Port-au-Prince on 17...
Forty migrants, including children, perish in Tunisia shipwreck
The tragedy came amid concerns that worsening conditions for refugees and asylum-seekers in North Africa are pushing more families to embark on perilous journeys.The...
UN in Ukraine prepares for the worst, hopes for the best
Ukrainians continue to face near daily attacks, with air strikes consistently targeting civilian infrastructure, leaving families without homes, security and electricity. More than 10...
Lebanon crisis: UN launches $426 million aid appeal as ‘limited’ ground invasion reportedly begins
From the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, spokesperson Jens Laerke described chaotic scenes across Lebanon as people continued to flee airstrikes that have killed ...
Humanitarian system at breaking point as funding cuts force life-or-death choices
Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told reporters at a briefing in New York that the current crisis was the most severe challenge to...
Dreams amid the rubble: Gaza’s women speak of homes, loss and hungry children
In Gaza City, families living in tents reveal a shared, grim reality.Many have been forced to flee the fighting dozens of times. Most find...
Rising hunger and displacement pose growing economic risk, UN tells Davos
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has reported that an estimated 318 million people worldwide now face crisis levels of hunger or worse, with...
Another child dies in extreme conditions in Gaza: UNICEF
In a statement, the agency identified the latest victim as seven-year-old Ata Mai; he drowned on 27 December during severe flooding in an improvised...
