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Lebanon crisis: 90,000 displaced in last 72 hours, warns refugee …
WEB5 days ago — Lebanon crisis: 90,000 displaced in last 72 hours, warns refugee agency. Smoke billows from a site targeted by shelling in the southern Lebanese village of Zaita. A new humanitarian crisis is unfolding at Lebanon’s border with Syria as thousands of people flee Israeli shelling linked to the war in Gaza, UN humanitarians said on Thursday, just ...
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WEB4 days ago — UN News produces daily news content in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Kiswahili, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Hindi and Urdu. Our multimedia service, through this new integrated single platform, updates throughout the day, in text, audio and video – also making use of quality images and other media from across the UN system. We …
Women and girls in Sudan disproportionately impacted by …
WEB4 days ago — 27 September 2024 Peace and Security. Women and girls in the midst of the brutal conflict between rival militaries in Sudan are being disproportionately impacted, including 5.8 million who are now displaced, according to an alert released by UN Women on Friday. The need for gender-based violence-related services has increased 100 per …
Netanyahu defends Israel at UN; says he came ‘to set the record ...
WEB4 days ago — 27 September 2024 UN Affairs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he had originally intended not to come to the UN General Assembly this year but after hearing the “lies and slander” levelled against his country by other leaders, he decided that he should come and “set the record straight”. “I decided to come here to speak ...
‘We have failed the people of Gaza,’ Guterres tells ministers
WEB5 days ago — 26 September 2024 Peace and Security. The UN agency that supports Palestine refugees, UNRWA, is the only “outpost of hope” left in the hellscape that is Gaza, the UN Secretary-General told a high-level ministerial meeting on Thursday in New York. The world has “failed the people of Gaza”, he said. More than 41,000 people have been ...
Desperation grows in Gaza: At least 11 schools hit this month, …
WEB4 days ago — 27 September 2024 Humanitarian Aid. At least 11 schools being used as shelters by internally displaced Gazans have been hit so far this month, with nearly 100 deaths reported, said UN aid coordination office, OCHA, on Friday. Around 80 per cent of the Strip’s 2.3 million people have been displaced during Israel’s nearly year-long …
Ukraine: UN official deplores deadly double attack on hospital
WEB3 days ago — 28 September 2024 Peace and Security. The top UN aid official in Ukraine has condemned Russian attacks in the northeastern city of Sumy on Saturday which damaged a hospital and killed and injured several people. The medical facility was hit in twin drone strikes that morning and at least nine people were killed, according to media reports.
Indian minister says ‘we can change the world for the better’
WEB3 days ago — 28 September 2024 UN Affairs. India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the world stands fractious, polarized and frustrated amid war, unfair trade practices, climate change and food and health insecurity. Trust has eroded, processes have broken down and countries have extracted more from the …
As challenges mount across the globe, ‘the world needs the UN’, …
WEB3 days ago — Still, the world needs the UN to address a range of challenges from cybercrime and artificial intelligence to collective security. On the latter, maintaining peace and security is the raison d’être of the Organization, he said, regretting to note that some global agreements, including nuclear non-proliferation treaties, are being flouted.