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WEBUN News Gaza: ‘Frightening increase’ in Hepatitis A cases UN agencies warned on Friday of the high risk of the further spread of infectious diseases in Gaza, amid chronic water scarcity and no...
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WEB3 days ago — The United Nations upheld the need to protect civilians in Ukraine as Russian attacks continue across the country, with at least seven people killed in Lviv on Wednesday, according to the World...
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WEB18 hours ago — We must do more to keep the air we breathe clean: UN weather agency. Unsplash/Matt Palmer. This year has seen more intense heat, droughts and wildfires, said the UN World Meteorological Organization, in its latest air quality bulletin. “Climate change means that we face this scenario with increasing frequency," it warned.
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WEB2 days ago — As the United Nations and its humanitarian partners prepare for a vaccination campaign in Gaza to deal with the polio outbreak, speakers in the Security Council urged Israel to refrain from...
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WEBAug 13, 2024 — The General Assembly today adopted three texts — including a resolution in support of the Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States — and conducted a debate on building peace,...
UN officials hail limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow polio ...
WEB1 day ago — Updated 3:27 PM PDT, September 4, 2024. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations officials on Wednesday hailed limited pauses in the fighting between Israel and Hamas to allow children’s polio vaccinations as rare moments of hope in the nearly yearlong war in Gaza. Top U.N. officials on peacebuilding …
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WEBNov 28, 2023 — The international community “seems incapable of coming together” to respond to intensifying crises, pushing the multilateral system into dysfunction and deadlock in a more fragmented world, the...
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WEBSep 21, 2022 — President Biden castigated President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in an address to the United Nations on Wednesday, accusing him of seeking to extinguish Ukraine and its people and of pushing...
U.N. General Assembly Biden Pledges to Work Toward ‘Peaceful ...
WEBSep 21, 2021 — President Biden delivered his debut address to the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday amid strong new doubts about his ability to vault the United States back...
Yemen: UN appeals for immediate release of staff held by de ... - UN News
WEB2 days ago — Six United Nations personnel who’ve been held on “spurious” accusations in Yemen for three months by the Houthi de facto authorities must be released immediately, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Tuesday. Issuing the appeal in Geneva on his behalf, Chief Spokesperson for his …