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As cases of cholera rise worldwide, the WHO said on Friday that it has authorized a new, less complicated version of the oral vaccine. This should assist expand the number of doses that are available. With...

Without a comprehensive and durable ceasefire, humanitarian efforts in the Gaza Strip are doomed to fail, Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya told the UN Security Council meeting. “We have repeatedly warned that in...

United Nations officials said on Monday that six months of violence on the Israel-Lebanon border “must stop”, urging de-escalation “while there is still space for diplomacy”. Israeli forces and Lebanon’s powerful Iran-backed Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian armed group...

Japan’s government announced that it is getting ready to start providing cash again to the UNRWA, the crisis-hit Palestinian refugee organization that oversees almost all relief to Gaza. Japan, which was previously the sixth-largest donor to...

A UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs study states that at least 24 of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are not operating. (OCHA). “The health system in Gaza is collapsing due to...

A UN expert who concluded that Israel was carrying out genocide in Gaza stated on Wednesday that she had received threats because of her work, but that this had just strengthened her resolve to move forward....

On Thursday, the UN General Assembly will consider a resolution outlining the advantages and disadvantages of artificial intelligence, a potentially game-changing technology, and it will also urge for the creation of international standards. The document, which...

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said he is “alarmed” by reports of ongoing Myanmar military air strikes on villages in Rakhine state, where locals told AFP more than 20 people were killed on Monday. Since...

Israel has prevented him from accessing the war-torn and beleaguered Gaza Strip, where the UN has issued an imminent hunger warning, according to the head of the UN organization for Palestinian refugees, who made this announcement...

The United Nations employs stringent standards to declare a famine, and on Monday it issued a warning of a “catastrophic” food catastrophe for over a million people in Gaza. It depends on the Integrated Food Security...