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UN News Today 19 July 2024

UN News Today
  • Polio stalks Gazans as 'anarchy' spreads, humanitarians warn
  • In Afghanistan, with 33 of 34 provinces hit by natural disasters, the UN refugee agency steps up assistance
  • Fighting in Sudan holds up lifesaving aid deliveries in Darfur and Sennar state
Audio Duration
5'25"
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UN News Today 18 July 2024

UN News Today
  • ‘Largest’ displacements so far in Gaza’s war of attrition: UN aid agencies
  • UN calls for urgent action on human rights violations in Central African Republic's detention centres
  • UNFPA warns of maternal death crisis in Yemen: One woman dies every two hours
Audio Duration
5'10"
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UN News Today 17 July 2024

UN News Today
  • Over 1,000 attacks on healthcare facilities across Occupied Palestinian Territory since October
  • Haiti: Displaced women lack basic safety and services
  • UN chief marks 10 years since MH17 tragedy, urges accountability
Audio
4'8"
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UN News Today 16 July 2024

UN News Today
  • Gaza: Five UNRWA schools hit in 10 days, reports UN agency
  • Sudan: 800,000 still trapped in El Fasher warns WHO
  • Forced labour in North Korea is ‘widespread and institutionalized’: UN human rights office
Audio Duration
5'40"
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UN News Today 12 July 2024

UN News Today
  • The UN continues to mediate peace talks in Geneva between the warring factions in Sudan.
  • Conflict escalates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, sparking disease outbreaks.
  • And…an ambitious UN bid to connect every school in the world to the Internet by 2030…
Audio Duration
5'24"
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UN News Today 11 July 2024

UN News Today
  • Sudan: Conflict spreads, displacing another 136,000 people
  • World population to peak at 10.3 billion by 2080s, decline by 2100
  • UN humanitarians and partners launch $9 million response plan for Hurricane Beryl victims 
Audio
5'
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UN News Today 9 July 2024

UN News Today
  • Ukraine’s main children’s hospital likely received a direct hit when it was struck on Monday, say UN rights monitors
  • Gazans are continue to reel from intensified malnutrition and heat risks 
  • Arbitrary detentions and impunity are happening on a massive scale in Libya, the Human Rights Council hears
Audio
3'47"
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UN News Today 8 July 2024

UN News Today
  • After nine months of war in Gaza, another UN school is hit by an Israeli airstrike
  • Several Ukrainian cities have been hit during a new wave of Russian strikes, including a children’s hospital
  • The record temperature streak continues worldwide through June
Audio
3'58"