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WHO calls for stepped up action to eliminate viral hepatitis

SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Gaza ceasefire is ‘increasingly fragile’, UN warns

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World News in Brief: More deaths in Ukraine, lengthy detentions in Egypt, AI governance, US postal tariffs

Since Friday, 11 civilians have been killed and more than 90 wounded, according to the authorities. Schools and energy infrastructure...

One in four still lacks access to safe drinking water and sanitation

The report from the World Health Organization (WHO) and children’s agency (UNICEF) issued as World Water Week gets underway, highlights persistent...

Thailand grants work rights to long-term refugees from Myanmar, UN welcomes resolution

Some 81,000 forcibly displaced people are hosted in temporary shelters along the Thai-Myanmar border where they have been living in...

Killing of journalists in Gaza hospital attack ‘should shock the world’: UN rights office

OHCHR Spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan said condemnation of the two strikes by Israeli forces on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis...

Gaza: UN calls for probe following deadly strikes on Nasser Hospital

At least 20 people were killed, including four health workers and five journalists, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus said in...

Putting water management at the centre of the climate change fight

Currently underway in Stockholm from 24 to 28 August, the 35th World Water Week meeting highlights the crucial link between...

UN urges renewed solidarity eight years after forced exodus of Rohingya

More than 700,000 of them fled to neighbouring Bangladesh after armed attacks by a militant group against Myanmar security forces...

Driven by hunger in Gaza, amputees are part of the collateral damage

“I was going to buy falafel,” says Mohammed Hassan. “On the way home, I looked up and saw a rocket...

DR Congo: The doctor who couldn’t leave Goma

Gunfire tore through the dark. Night after night, the 44-year-old physician from Guinea clung to the hope that the besieged...

International Day for Remembrance of Slave Trade: ‘Time to abolish exploitation once and for all’