Middle East
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Syria’s humanitarian needs remain high despite reduced violence, UN warns
Humanitarian needs in Syria remain immense despite a year of reduced violence and political change, with millions still displaced, basic…
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Aid agencies warn Gaza response at breaking point as Israel urged to lift new restrictions
Humanitarian agencies working in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) have warned that life-saving aid operations risk collapse unless Israel immediately…
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Yemen on the brink: Guterres urges restraint, calls for release of UN detainees
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Yemen’s leaders to return to the path of peace and release all UN personnel…
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Gaza ceasefire still fragile as cold turns deadly, Security Council hears
The ceasefire in Gaza remains fragile, while humanitarians continue to face obstructions in delivering aid to the people, a senior UN official…
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New demolition order for West Bank camp is ‘more devastating news’
Israel has issued new demolition orders for the Nur Shams camp in the north of the occupied West Bank effective…
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‘We won’t stop’: Afghan women keep businesses alive despite sweeping rights abuses
In Afghanistan, where sweeping restrictions have pushed most women out of public life, thousands are refusing to give up on…
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Peace proves relative in Gaza with no let-up in deadly airstrikes
In Gaza, as airstrikes, shelling and gunfire continued to kill and maim Palestinians, UN human rights chief Volker Türk on…
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Gaza’s babies ‘scarred by war before first breath’ by malnutrition
Mothers who’ve been left starving in Gaza are now giving birth to underweight or premature babies who die in intensive…
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Syria at a crossroads: UN warns fragile transition needs global support
A year after the fall of the Assad regime opened the door to political and judicial reform, Syria’s future is…
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UN strongly condemns Israel’s unauthorised entry of UNRWA compound in East Jerusalem
The UN agency that assists Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said that Israeli police raided its compound in East Jerusalem early on…
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