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UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left) and Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), in Paris ahead of the opening of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games.

UN urges peace and respect for Olympic Truce as Paris Summer Games begin

As the Summer Olympics and Paralympics get underway in Paris on Friday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for global respect of the Olympic Truce – a custom of halting all hostilities from before to after the Games.

People in Gaza are living in increasingly unsanitary conditions, amid the looming threat of deadly diseases.

‘Endless nightmare’ of death and destruction in Gaza, UN officials tell Security Council

Parents carry their children as they walk on a flooded street in Quezon City, Philippines.

Oil tanker sinks, hundreds of thousands affected as ‘super typhoon’ batters Philippines

Floor mosaic inside the monastery of Saint Hilarion.

World News in Brief: Historic Palestine monastery on World Heritage in Danger List, rights office condemnation as Ghana upholds anti-gay law, free jailed Russian activist

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Global education fund announces $2.5 million grant for Haiti

Gaza: Evacuation orders displace thousands, disrupt aid operations

WHO to send one million polio vaccines to Gaza to protect children

Deadly Atlantic shipwreck shows victims’ desperation, says UN refugee agency

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Máximo Torero, chief economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The world must look to South America’s success in reducing hunger

A girl sitting on the steps to her home in the Al Biddawi camp for Palestine refugees in northern Lebanon.

Exclusive: A look into the lives of Palestine refugees in Lebanon awaiting a solution to their plight

Trucks transport food aid into northern Gaza (file)

UNRWA stresses need to protect humanitarians after convoy hit in Gaza

Aristides de Sousa Mendes' house in Cabanas de Viriato, Portugal, has been transformed into a memorial museum.

The life of Aristides de Sousa Mendes: An example for us all

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Local displaced and homeless Haitians gather for free medical treatment at an IOM mobile clinic in Place Clercine in Tabarre, Port-au-Prince.

‘Entire social fabric’ unravelling in Haiti as displacement continues

Humanitarian Aid The entire social fabric of families is unraveling in Haiti as displacement in the country reaches record numbers due largely to insecurity and gang-related violence, according to Abdoulaye Sawadogo, head of the UN’s humanitarian coordination office, OCHA, in the Caribbean island nation.

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed meets young children at a refugee camp in Chad.

Sustainable development: ‘Be leaders and inspire’ UN deputy chief urges, as 2030 deadline nears

Toto Aquino in his bedroom at home in Manila.

First Person: Filipino elderly ex-prisoner’s joy of ‘sleeping and eating’

Scammers who do not meet their quotas are often tortured

Southeast Asia: Torture rooms and karaoke bars in gang-run ‘scam farms’

Girls study science at a school in India.

Time running short as 2030 deadline looms for UN blueprint for a fairer future

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Many Gazans who fled to Rafah are now on the move again.

Searching for safety in Gaza

Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are fleeing from escalating violence in the north and south in the seven-month-long war that has killed nearly 36,000 Palestinians, leaving behind a looming famine and trails of rubble in the besieged enclave.

PHOTO STORY: 6 months of Gaza conflict leaves many close to famine

On 5 March 2024, UNICEF and partners delivered 23 incubators to hospitals in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.

Ukraine: War and restoring a sense of home

A single mother of three children is rebuilding her home with help from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR.

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Construction workers walk along a road in Daan Hari, Philippines.

The heat is on: We must rise to the challenge of rising temperatures, urges UN chief

Climate and Environment The UN chief on Thursday issued an urgent call to action to better protect billions around the world exposed to crippling effects of extreme heat, as global temperature rise continues unabated.

Palestinian families on the move in response to the latest evacuation orders from the Israeli military.

Gaza: Hunger fears persist as Israeli operations further harm enclave’s farmers

Peace and Security As President Biden on Thursday prepared to meet Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss progress on a Gaza ceasefire and the release of all hostages still held in the enclave, the spectre of further hunger and malnourishment continued to loom over Gazans, as UN humanitarians warned that farming and even small-scale gardening remain suspended.

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