Peace and Security
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World News in Brief: Half of Haiti’s displaced are children, alarm over low immunisation rates, aid to East Africa
A breakdown in law and order and a wider humanitarian emergency across Haiti have displaced more than 700,000 people –…
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: End ‘sickening cycle’ of escalation across the Middle East, Guterres urges
Security Council members met in emergency session on Tuesday morning in New York with the Middle East on the brink…
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UN rights chief adds voice to urgent calls for Middle East de-escalation
Hours after Iran fired a reported 200 missiles at Israel in response to Israeli military incursions in southern Lebanon raising…
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Russia ‘can only be forced into peace’ says Zelenskyy
The UN Security Council is meeting for a high level briefing on the Ukraine war. The UN Secretary-General told foreign…
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UN’s Guterres urges global solutions as uncertain world edges toward a ‘powder keg’
The world is locked in a “purgatory of polarity” with a growing number of governments and others feeling entitled to…
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Lebanon escalation: Have we learned nothing from Gaza, UN humanitarians ask
As Lebanon mourns the victims of a wave of Israeli airstrikes believed to have left hundreds dead, UN humanitarians warned…
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Sudan crisis must not be forgotten by world leaders, says UN food agency
Ongoing heavy fighting in Sudan has continued to kill and uproot the country’s people who global leaders should remember as…
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Torture ‘a common and acceptable practice’ in Ukraine war, UN investigators say
Russian authorities are using torture “with a sense of impunity” in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the UN Human Rights…
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Guterres condemns death of 6 UNRWA staff and 12 others in Israeli strike, calls for independent probe
The UN chief on Thursday described the continued lack of effective protection for civilians in Gaza during the ongoing war…
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Over 22,500 have suffered ‘life-changing injuries’ in Gaza: WHO
More than 22,500 people – a quarter of those wounded in Gaza since Israel’s offensive began – have life-changing injuries,…
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