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World News in Brief: Gaza winter storm, $7 billion UNICEF appeal, support for emergency response fund

·December 11, 2025·2 min read

Following two years of war, most of Gaza’s roughly two million residents are living in makeshift shelters. Humanitarians are working to deliver assistance to communities in flood-prone areas, including by scaling up distribution of winter clothes for children from 5,000 kits a day to 8,000. UN partners leading winter preparedness efforts reported that some 200 families have left shoreline communities for a new site identified by...

Syria at a crossroads: UN warns fragile transition needs global support

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·December 9, 2025·3 min read

The UN on Monday hailed the determination of Syrians working to rebuild their country but cautioned that sustained international engagement is essential to keep the transition from the chaos of a year ago on track – amid ongoing security and humanitarian challenges. “Syrians astonished the world by overcoming years of...

Iraq: UN mission ends, with pledge of continued support

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·December 3, 2025·3 min read

The Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Iraq, Mohammed Al Hassan, briefed members for the last time as the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) prepares to conclude its mandate on 31 December after more than two decades of service. “Today, indeed, is a great day for the international community and the United Nations to witness an honourable and dignified closure of a...

On International Day of Solidarity, UN urges greater support and aid for Palestinians

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·December 1, 2025·1 min read

“At least 67 children have been killed since the ceasefire,” Annalena Baerbock, president of the UN General Assembly, said on Tuesday at an event to mark the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. “The people in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, also endured unspeakable hardship amidst Israeli military operations, settler violence, settlement...

Despite ongoing discrimination, women entrepreneurs are reshaping the Global South, with crucial support from the UN

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·November 26, 2025·3 min read

As a young mother in a remote part of eastern Kenya, Norah Magero struggled to get her child reliable health care. “We faced lots of blackouts, and it was always a race against time to get her vaccinated.” Safely storing and transporting heat-sensitive medical products like vaccines, blood for transfusion...

Jamaica: International support ‘crucial’ to hurricane recovery says Guterres

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·November 3, 2025·2 min read

António Guterres spoke by phone to Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness earlier in the day emphasising afterwards in a statement that “international support is crucial” as the country deals with the effects of the category 5 storm which brought rain, storm surges and catastrophic flooding. “He calls for the mobilisation...

Caribbean nations receive life-saving support following devastation of Hurricane Melissa

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·November 1, 2025·2 min read

Torrential rain, storm surges, and landslides caused by the hurricane have left a trail of destruction across the region, with homes flattened, roads and bridges washed away, and vast areas still without power or Internet access and other telecommunications. The UN humanitarian affairs office (OCHA) said that aid supplies are...

Philippines earthquake: UN pledges support as Cebu death toll rises to 72

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·October 3, 2025·1 min read

The tremor struck off the coast of Bogo City at 9:59PM on Tuesday, 30 September, with the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) reporting a shallow depth of around 10 kilometers. Residents said the quake sent people fleeing into the streets. A tsunami warning was briefly issued and later...

Haiti: UN relief chief implores ‘we have to do better’ to support gang-ravaged nation

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·September 10, 2025·4 min read

“I’m ashamed on behalf of the world that we cannot find it in ourselves to be more compassionate, to be more kind, to recognise what people here are going through,” said Tom Fletcher, who heads the UN emergency relief agency, OCHA, during a visit to the Caribbean nation. “I listened...

UN provides urgent support after ‘massive’ Russian attack across Ukraine

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·September 8, 2025·1 min read

More than 800 drones were launched in waves designed to overwhelm Ukrainian air defences, according to news reports, and a Government building was hit in the capital Kyiv for the first time. Ukrainian authorities reported that four had been killed, with 44 injured. Air-raid sirens continued for 11 hours straight...

Despite Taliban ban, over 90 per cent of Afghans support girls’ right to learn

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·August 30, 2025·1 min read

Four years after the Taliban takeover in August 2021, the scale and severity of the women’s rights crisis continues to intensify. Afghanistan is the only country in the world where girls are prohibited to attend secondary school. Yet, in a nationwide door-to-door survey of over 2,000 Afghans, more than nine...

UN upholds readiness to support peace efforts in Ukraine

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·August 21, 2025·1 min read

Stéphane Dujarric was responding to a journalist’s question about the meeting held the previous day between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, his American counterpart Donald Trump, and several European leaders at the White House. It followed talks last week between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in...