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The UN General Assembly on Monday overwhelmingly adopted a resolution calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reverse their escalating oppression of women and girls and to dismantle all terrorist organizations operating within the…
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Millions fleeing Sudan’s ongoing civil war are at growing risk of hunger and malnutrition as they seek refuge in neighboring countries already struggling with food insecurity, the United Nations warned Monday. The World Food Programme…
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The United Nations’ peacekeeping chief issued a stark warning on Thursday about the growing risk of Sudan’s ongoing war spilling over into the Central African Republic (CAR), threatening fragile stability and fueling paramilitary activity…
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The United Nations reported on Monday that its ability to provide essential wheat flour to Gaza has been severely limited since Israel lifted its aid blockade three weeks ago. Most of the flour delivered has either been looted by armed…
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India has called Pakistan a “rogue state” at the United Nations, highlighting Pakistani defence minister Khwaja Asif's “open confession” to training and funding terrorists, days after the Pahalgam terror attack that claimed 26 lives. In a…
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A man claiming to be a descendant of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar has written to the United Nations seeking protection of Aurangzeb's tomb in Maharashtra's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar which has been at the eye of a storm lately.…
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Cuts to aid budgets are threatening to undermine years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, and could lead to a rise in deaths, the United Nations has warned. Globally, there was a 40 percent…
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Half of Yemen’s children under 5 are acutely malnourished and more than half a million suffer from potentially fatal food deprivation, the UN said on Tuesday. The children’s agency UNICEF warned that a decade of conflict had stolen…
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Cuts in international aid could bring an end to decades of progress in fighting child mortality, and even reverse the trend, the United Nations warned Monday. Although the annual report from UNICEF, the World Health Organization and the…
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The world risks returning to the worst days of the global AIDS pandemic following the sudden halt to US foreign aid funding, the UN's top AIDS official said Monday, warning millions would die. The United States has historically been the…
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