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Escalating hostilities and limited access to medical supplies are exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza depriving civilians of shelter, food and medicine, the UN warns.
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Dire humanitarian crisis engulfs Gaza Strip, displaced people swell: UN 

HQ Team April 17, 2025: Escalating hostilities and limited access to medical supplies are exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza depriving.

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The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40% decline in maternal deaths as one maternal death occurred every two minutes worldwide in 2023.
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Maternal mortality rates may fail UN goal, global aid cuts the main culprit 

HQ Team April 9, 2025: The United Nations has warned that “unprecedented” global aid cuts could derail a three-year trend of a 40%.

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Sudan’s humanitarian crisis and security situation remain “dire and worsening,” with a famine looming on the horizon, according to a UN official.
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Sudan heading for famine as fighting ravages Darfur, UN warns

HQ Team April 2, 2025: Sudan’s humanitarian crisis and security situation remain “dire and worsening,” with a famine looming on the horizon, according.

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Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to funding cuts and shortages, with 1.9 million children dying in 2023 on account of stillbirths.
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Funding cuts ‘severely’ bleeding UN’s child survival, stillbirth programs

HQ Team March 25, 2025: Progress in slowing child mortality and stillbirth deaths has received a severe blow due to global funding cuts.

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Forty-nine bodies, likely of migrants, were found in two mass graves in Libya, according to the UN agency, the International Office of Migration.
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UN says 49 bodies of possible migrants found in two Libyan mass graves

Forty-nine bodies, likely of migrants, were found in two mass graves in Libya, according to the UN agency, the International Office of Migration.

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Negotiators at a global climate conference signed a $300 billion-a-year deal to finance emissions reduction — that developing nations say falls way short of their expectations.
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Global warming on backburner; vexed financing deal sees light at COP29 

Global representatives at a climate conference signed a $300 billion-a-year deal to finance emissions reductions — a move developing nations say falls way.

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UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to finance climate change.
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Tax fossil fuel extraction, aviation, shipping: UN chief says at COP29

UN Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres outlined a three-point plan to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030, including new ways to.

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An international body of technical experts in the field of food security has issued an alert about an “imminent” and “substantial” likelihood of a famine occurring in the conflict-ridden Gaza Strip
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Famine in Gaza Strip is ‘imminent,’ likelihood ‘substantial’: FRC

An international body of technical experts in the field of food security has issued an alert about an “imminent” and “substantial” likelihood of.

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The World Health Organization has for the first time activated its emergency health network in eight countries affected by the mpox outbreak, including the worst-hit Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi.
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WHO activates emergency health network in mpox-hit nations for first time

The World Health Organization has for the first time activated its emergency health network in eight countries affected by the mpox outbreak, including.

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Exiting plans to combat climate change “fall miles short” of what’s needed to stop global heating from destroying every economy and wrecking billions of lives and livelihoods across every nation, a UN climate official said.
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Global heat to cripple economies, wreck billions of lives: UN official says

Exiting plans to combat climate change “fall miles short” of what’s needed to stop global heating from destroying every economy and wrecking billions.

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