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Four years after the coup, Myanmar remains on the brink
Myanmar’s Enduring Polycrisis: Four Years into a Tumultuous Journey, launched on Wednesday, points to the bleak picture of a nation...
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UNAIDS welcomes US decision to keep funding life-saving HIV treatment
The move from the UN agency dedicated to ending the disease came in response to an immediate 90-day funding pause...
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DR Congo crisis: A public health ‘nightmare’ is unfolding, warns WHO
The internet also remains down in the provincial capital and only mobile phone networks are functioning, with M23 fighters apparently in...
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DR Congo crisis: ‘The violence must end now’, UN Security Council told
Vivian van de Perre, Deputy Head of the UN Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO), provided a detailed briefing from...
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DR Congo: Battle for Goma continues as ‘volatile’ crisis unfolds
In a briefing on Monday, Mr. Lacroix told journalists in New York that some staff from the UN’s Stabilization Mission...
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World News in Brief: Children killed in Darfur hospital attack, date set for US climate pact withdrawal, WHO leads call to fight neglected diseases
The children were among the patients being treated in the hospital's emergency ward for injuries from previous bombings in the...
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Guterres calls on US to exempt development and humanitarian funds from aid ‘pause’
President Trump’s executive order a week ago called for all foreign aid to be re-evaluated to ensure that it complies...
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DR CONGO CRISIS: Live updates for 28 January as Security Council meets
The Security Council will be holding a meeting at UN Headquarters in New York at 3pm local time as the...
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Israel UNRWA ban will undermine Gaza ceasefire, Security Council hears
Briefing ambassadors in New York on Tuesday, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini warned that the laws passed in October last year...
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‘Hold fast to our common humanity’: UN marks 80 years since death camps were liberated
More than 15 months on from the 7 October terror attacks by Hamas in Israel, António Guterres said the UN will...
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