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Residents displaced by violence in Cité Soleil, Haiti, rest in a makeshift shelter in Drouillard.

Haiti sanctions renewed: Starving the gangs of bullets

Haiti is living through one of the world’s most acute security crises.

Armed gangs control large parts of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and are pushing into rural areas, terrorising communities, killing people, committing rape and other sexual assaults, kidnapping for ransom and extorting individuals and businesses.

Elevated view of Bogotá's urban landscape with modern blue and green high-rises, dense low-rise buildings, and Andean mountains under a clear blue sky.

Colombia: UN independent experts call for Ecopetrol to provide reparations to victims of armed conflict

A man stands in front of his shelter on a stormy beach in Gaza.

World News in Brief: Gaza braces for winter amid attacks, joint patrols in CAR, 90 cities commit to sustainable development

A woman and a young child sit on a bed in a simple room. The woman, wearing a patterned dress and headwrap, looks at the camera while holding the child, who is resting against her.

DR Congo: Cholera cases spike amid fight against Ebola

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Health workers tackle taboos over drinking with new AI tool

Security Council LIVE: Libya in the spotlight amid ‘encouraging progress’

Yemen: WFP warns of potential ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as fighting blocks aid delivery

WHO calls for urgent health action across the Eastern Mediterranean

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Green rice paddies bordered by brown irrigation canals under a partly cloudy sky in Ca Mau, Mekong Delta.

In the Mekong Delta, a push to grow food with saltwater

Climate and Environment For generations, farming in Viet Nam’s Mekong Delta has depended on a delicate bargain. The river flooded, retreated and flooded again, carrying freshwater and sediment across a flat landscape whose vast fields helped turn the country into one of the world’s leading rice exporters.

A collection of open medicine bottles containing various pills and capsules, alongside empty blister packs and plastic bags, all placed together on a surface.

When streets become pharmacies: Booming illicit markets in Central Africa

Two African elephants touch trunks and tusks in a savanna setting.

Uganda’s UN-supported wildlife forensics lab turns ivory seizures into convictions

Severe riverbank collapse exposes tangled tree roots and threatens a building shielded by green mesh netting along a sandy shoreline, with open water and a distant city skyline visible in the background.

In Tanzania, the sea is moving inland – and taking livelihoods with it

A man in a grey suit and glasses speaks at a green marble desk in the UN General Assembly hall, while a woman in a red top works on a laptop beside him.

The Takeaway Day 6: General Debate ends with call to turn words into action

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres speaks from a podium in the United Nations General Assembly Hall during the opening of the eighty-first session, with delegates seated and his image on two screens.

110 leaders, 18,000 delegates: Inside the UN’s busiest week of high-stakes diplomacy

The busiest week of the year at the UN got underway at the organization’s New York Headquarters on Monday.

Reaching the most vulnerable: Frontline teams support earthquake-hit Venezuela

Photo by UNOCHA/Veronique Durroux showing search and rescue operations near the earthquake ground zero in La Guaira, Venezuela, on June 29, 2026. A CAT backhoe loader is positioned in the foreground amidst rubble, with several rescue workers visible on top of the collapsed building structure.

UN ramps up ceasefire support to hungry and war-weary Gazans

A smiling young girl, Shereen, carries a large pot of rice and chickpeas in Al-Mawasi, Khan Younis, while other children and adults stand near tents in the background.

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A barefoot boy holds plastic bottles as a girl sits and a woman bends over a container at a white storage tank surrounded by canvas tents in a Yemeni displacement camp.

Yemen: Houthi siege, cholera outbreak and aid cuts put civilians in the crosshairs

Peace and Security Yemen’s southwestern city of Taiz is facing a “devastating” humanitarian crisis as escalating tensions are dramatically driving up food prices and causing shortages of supplies, the UN Spokesperson said on Tuesday.

A young woman in a hijab focuses on an accounting software program on her laptop during a training session at a UNICEF-supported center in Jaramana, Damascus, Syria, aimed at improving employment opportunities for youth.

800 million young people face a future without jobs

Economic Development Approximately 800 million young people entering the labour market in developing economies over the coming years will not find jobs unless countries act, the head of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) warned on Tuesday, as the agency launched two initiatives to boost investment and employment.

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