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While 2023 is not yet over, a provisional report from the UN World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that it is set to be the warmest on record, with global temperatures…
According to the UN refugee agency (UNCHR) and the World Health Organization (WHO), the children were refugees living in nine camps in Sudan’s White Nile state. UN refugee chief Filippo…
“Human rights in Afghanistan are in a state of collapse,” he told the Human Rights Council, before sounding the alarm over ongoing reports of extrajudicial killings, torture and ill-treatment and…
The UN agency has issued its latest Food Price Index (FPI), which tracks the monthly international prices of cereals, vegetable oil, dairy, meat and sugar. The Index averaged 123.9 points…
In the African country of Cameroon, 16 people, including children and women, were killed and many were injured after a building collapsed. According to foreign media, the accident happened in…
Chronic underfunding over the past decade, and resultant severe austerity measures, mean UNRWA is already operating with a $75 million shortfall, putting its lifesaving programmes across the Middle East at…
Hopes are running high of an end to the intense fighting between a Saudi-backed coalition standing alongside Government forces, and Houthi rebels and their allies, which since 2015 has led…
Photo: Social Media Two people were killed when two residential buildings collapsed after an explosion in the French city of Marseille. According to the foreign news agency, 5 people have…
Screen grab A coal mine collapsed after a landslide in northern China, killing 6 people. According to Chinese media, 6 people have been rescued in the accident while 47 people…