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Gazans identify loved ones killed in 18 March airstrikes.

3-week Gaza aid ban ‘collective punishment’: UNRWA chief

The tight Israeli blockade of humanitarian supplies is pushing Gaza closer to an acute hunger crisis, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA), said on Sunday.

The UN Security Council is considering the impact of AI on peace and security.

Mind your language: The battle for linguistic diversity in AI

A UNICEF team delivers health and nutrition supplies, including vaccines, to communities in northeast Ethiopia.

Children, refugees pay hefty price of global aid funding crisis

The looting of critical supplies from a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, risks worsening the humanitarian crisis in the region. (file photo)

UNICEF condemns looting of lifesaving supplies for children in Sudan

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Running to bomb shelters, nothing new for Ukraine’s schoolchildren

Middle East crisis spirals amid mounting civilian deaths, aid blockade

WORLD WATER DAY: The ‘cold hard truth’

‘The poison of racism continues to infect our world’, Guterres warns on International Day

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WHO gives clean bill of health to cities taking action on preventable diseases

Activists rally in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (file)

‘What’s next?’ Women-led movements fear for the future

Members of the Mulanje Teen Club enjoy a debate around some of the challenges facing youth in Malawi.

WOMEN’S DAY LIVE: ‘Equality is the gamechanger’

People advocate for action at a global meeting on climate change in Baku, Azerbaijan.

‘Let us never lose hope’: Young leaders on the frontlines of climate action

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Iceland’s Glacier Graveyard: A Warning from a Melting World

Airstrikes in Gaza leave hundreds dead

1 million people displaced inside Syria are planning to return home

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Waad Al-Kateab stands in front of a bombed-out building in Syria with her daughter in her arms.

‘Is this just a long, beautiful dream?’: Syrian filmmaker Waad Al-Kateab on her country’s future

Peace and Security For Waad Al-Kateab, the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria in December 2024 felt almost unreal. “I thought the ending of my story was dying in exile,” she told UN News. “And it just happened out of the blue.”

‘Anxiety, paranoia, fear’: The consequences of digital violence against women

Sufyan Al-Majdalawi inspects the rubble of his home in Jabalia in northern Gaza.

‘This is our land’ – Building Gaza’s future from the wreckage of war

Wisam is among many children returning to school in Port Sudan amid the ongoing war.

Packed with promise: Wisam’s journey back to school in Sudan

Olena stands in front of her damaged home in Kharkiv, hit during a May 2024 attack (file)

Ukraine three years on: Pain, loss, solidarity and hope for a better future

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People living in areas recently liberated by Ukrainian forces receive aid.

Ukraine: Keeping the lights on during the darkest times

The 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia has had an indelible effect on the civilian population, displacing millions, straining the economy and inflicting physical and mental trauma. During these dark years, the UN has stayed alongside the Ukrainian people, providing aid, necessities and healthcare, and restoring energy supplies.

UN peacekeeping’s long history of support to DR Congo

UN peacekeepers patrol the eastern DR Congo.

‘Massive response’ needed following Gaza conflict’s ‘horrific toll’ on children

Hot meals are distributed to children in Khan Younis, Gaza.

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Palestinian children climb through rubble following airstrikes on 18 March.

Exhausted Gazans wake from another night of Israeli bombing: UN aid teams

Peace and Security Israel’s renewed bombing campaign and intensifying ground operation in Gaza are reversing gains achieved during the brief ceasefire, UN humanitarians inside the devastated enclave said on Friday.

Natural-colour satellite image of the margin of Matusevich Glacier in East Antarctica. (file)

End of eternal ice: Many glaciers will not survive this century, climate scientists say

Climate and Environment Glaciers in many regions will not survive the 21st century if they keep melting at the current rate, potentially jeopardising hundreds of millions of people living downstream, UN climate experts said on the first World Day for Glaciers.

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