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Asia: Lives upended by cyclones, ‘extreme’ rainfall on the rise, warn UN agencies

·December 2, 2025·2 min read

World Meteorological Organization (WMO) spokesperson Clare Nullis told reporters in Geneva that Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam are among the countries most affected by what she described as “a combination of monsoon-related rainfall and tropical cyclone activity”. “Asia is very, very vulnerable to floods,” Ms. Nullis...

Nigeria: Hundreds abducted in the north as insurgent attacks rise

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·November 30, 2025·1 min read

At least 402 people, mainly schoolchildren, have been kidnapped in four states in the north-central region – Niger, Kebbi, Kwara and Borno – since 17 November, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday. Only 88 have reportedly been freed or escaped from captivity. Call for justice “We are shocked at the recent surge in mass abductions in north-central Nigeria,” OHCHR Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said in Geneva....

Ukrainian civilian casualties rise 27 per cent compared to last year

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·November 13, 2025·1 min read

“The number of casualties for the first ten months of 2025 (12,062) has already exceeded the total for all of 2024 (9,112)”, said the report by the United Nations Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU). In total there have been 53,006 civilian casualties, including 14,534 deaths, since the full-scale invasion of...

Safeguarding clean water access as climate threats rise

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·November 10, 2025·1 min read

“Healthcare facilities are where the vulnerable seek healing. Yet, without adequate water, sanitation and hygiene, for too many people, expected care can become inadvertent harm,” said Dr. Hans Kluge, the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Regional Director for Europe. Emphasizing that healthcare is “being tested as never before”, Dr. Kluge insisted that bolstering them is an investment in withstanding crises. As part of this...

Record rise in carbon dioxide levels during 2024: UN weather agency

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·October 15, 2025·1 min read

The surge was driven by continued human emissions, more wildfire activity and weakened absorption by land and ocean “sinks” – a development that threatens to create a vicious climate cycle. Tripling since the 1960s The WMO’s latest Greenhouse Gas Bulletin shows that CO₂ growth rates have tripled since the 1960s,...

Air pollution is on the rise – but not everywhere, says UN weather agency

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·September 5, 2025·2 min read

“Air quality respects no boundaries,” said Lorenzo Labrador, Scientific Officer at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). “The smoke and the pollution that issues from the wildfires in this record-breaking season in the Iberian Peninsula has been detected over Western Europe already [and]…can travel basically throughout the rest of the European...

Cooling La Niña could be back, but global temperatures set to rise: WMO

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·September 2, 2025·1 min read

Latest data shared by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) indicates a 55 per cent likelihood that sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific will cool to La Niña levels from September to November. About 90 per cent of the excess heat from global warming is stored in the ocean, making ocean heat content a critical indicator...

From dough to dough: Bahraini chefs rise with sweet, spicy success

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·August 17, 2025·5 min read

What started as a simple joy of making cookies for family and friends soon blossomed into Brown Sugar, a brand that embodies both her love for desserts and her journey towards independence. “I used to love eating sweets,” Eman Fareed, a mother and retired civil servant, told UN News while...

UN warns of steep rise in sexual violence during conflict

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·August 14, 2025·2 min read

According to the annual Report of the Secretary-General on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, both State and non-State actors were responsible for violations in 21 countries, with the highest numbers recorded in the Central African Republic (CAR), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Haiti, Somalia and South Sudan. Women and girls...

Global demand for meat and dairy set to rise, but climate and nutrition gaps remain

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·July 16, 2025·3 min read

However, persistent nutritional gaps and mounting environmental pressures reveal a complex path ahead, according to a new study by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – an influential international policy forum. The Agricultural Outlook 2025-2034, released on Tuesday, projects a...

Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny

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·June 21, 2025·3 min read

With more than 5.5 billion people connected online – nearly all of them active on social media – digital platforms have become central to how people interact, UN Women highlights. However, they are also being weaponised to spread misogyny and hate. Once confined to fringe internet forums, the manosphere now...

Songs of hope rise from Gaza’s ruins

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·May 31, 2025·2 min read

Among them is Ahmed Abu Amsha, a music teacher who has become something of a humanitarian troubadour. Fleeting moments of joy Living in a worn tent with his family, he refuses to let despair drown out hope. Instead, he teaches music to displaced children, helping them find moments of joy...