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Indirect disaster effects cost the world nearly $2 trillion per year, Guterres says on International Day

·October 14, 2025·2 min read

Most of the exorbitant costs of disaster are preventable with proper funding and planning —one of the main messages for this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, themed Fund Resilience, Not Disasters, observed on Monday. “Every dollar invested in resilience saves many more in avoided losses and protects the...

Indirect disaster effects cost the world nearly $2 trillion per year, Guterres says on International Day

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·October 14, 2025·2 min read

Most of the exorbitant costs of disaster are preventable with proper funding and planning —one of the main messages for this year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, themed Fund Resilience, Not Disasters, observed on Monday. “Every dollar invested in resilience saves many more in avoided losses and protects the...

Bold, diverse and unstoppable: Girls speak out amid a world in crisis

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·October 13, 2025·2 min read

Alongside senior officials from the UN community, they commemorated the International Day of the Girl Child through declarations, dialogue and a show of solidarity for their peers in Afghanistan and elsewhere, whose voices have been silenced. Nafisa from Ghana, 16, spoke up for girls “whose dreams are shaken by crisis”,...

World News in Brief: Deadly attacks in Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant update, first humanitarian flight for Syrians in Libya

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·October 10, 2025·2 min read

Substations, power plants and oil depots were damaged in Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Donetsk, temporarily cutting off electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in those regions. “As colder weather sets in, strikes on critical infrastructure are deepening humanitarian needs,” warned Mr. Dujarric. “Despite growing challenges, we, along...

World News in Brief: ‘Trust crisis’ impacts vaccine rollouts, Cyberspace must ‘serve the common good’, Türk calls for lasting truce in Lebanon

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·October 2, 2025·2 min read

And because healthcare spending is also under pressure around the world, it should be a priority to develop so-called combination vaccines, the panel insisted. WHO immunisation chief Dr. Kate O’Brien, stressed that the combination MMR jab that protects against measles, mumps and rubella, is safe for children. ‘Significant risks’ “What is really...

The world is failing Gaza’s starving children, aid teams warn

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·October 1, 2025·4 min read

A total of 151 children have perished through acute malnutrition in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war – and the majority in 2025 – according to the latest figures from the Palestinian health authorities. Announcing Jana’s death in an online video message, UNICEF Communication Manager Tess Ingram...

‘Do not submit to a world ruled by brute force,’ Denmark urges world leaders at UN

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·September 30, 2025·1 min read

She stressed that the UN is “as essential as ever,” even as conflicts intensify, extreme poverty grows, and respect for international law and norms erodes. Since 1945, she noted, “more than a billion people have been lifted out of poverty,” life expectancy and living standards have risen, and a global...

World News in Brief: New declaration on NCDs and mental health, Khartoum shelter crisis, WFP lifeline in Ukraine, South Sudan rights update

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·September 29, 2025·3 min read

The text, negotiated over five months, will go before the General Assembly for approval in just a few weeks’ time. It was adopted at a high-level meeting at UN Headquarters late on Thursday, where heads of State, government leaders and health ministers stressed the urgency of coordinated action. NCDs such as...

Current world order ‘reflects a bygone era,’ says Cuban Foreign Minister

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·September 28, 2025·1 min read

Mr. Parilla began by expressing solidarity with Palestine and condemning what he described as the “genocidal extermination and ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians by Israel. He said that, at a time when “a handful of countries and individuals have amassed more wealth than the vast majority of all other countries combined,”...

Post-war Somalia proves multilateralism can make the world a better place, says President

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·September 26, 2025·1 min read

Somalia’s story is one of “real national effort supported by truly committed international partners,” he said, referring to the country’s transition from all-out civil conflict beginning in 2012. “In fact, Somalia is evidence that multilateralism and global solidarity can make the world a better, safer and progressive place.” He affirmed...

We have no choice but to fight, Ukraine’s Zelenskyy tells world leaders

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·September 25, 2025·2 min read

“No one but ourselves can guarantee security,” he said. “Only strong alliances. Only strong partners. And only our own weapons.” He argued that international law does not work without the backing of “powerful friends” and, ultimately, military backup. Those with “weapons decide who survives,” he said, calling it a “terrible”...

‘Warring world is crying out for peace’ says UN chief as leaders gather in New York

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·September 22, 2025·1 min read

“Lives are being ripped apart, childhoods extinguished, and basic human dignity discarded, amidst the cruelty and degradations of war,” Mr. Guterres said in a message for the Day. “All they want is peace.” He stressed that conflict today is not confined to battlefields, with its impacts rippling across borders, fuelling...