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Afghanistan faces deepening humanitarian crisis amid sweeping rights restrictions

2026-11-06T04:00:00-08:00

Afghanistan stands at a “difficult crossroad” more than five years after the Taliban returned to power, a senior UN official said on Friday. Relative stability and security are being undercut by a fragile economy, sweeping curbs on rights and acute humanitarian need.

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World News in Brief: Civilians killed in DR Congo, Ukrainians wrestle with return, Guterres calls out ‘normalisation’ of force

2026-11-06T04:00:00-08:00

At least 30 civilians were killed overnight on Thursday in Beni Territory, North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to local sources cited by the UN aid coordination office (OCHA).

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Children at risk as war zone attacks on water and sanitation more than triple

2026-11-05T04:00:00-08:00

Attacks that damaged or destroyed water and sanitation systems in conflict zones tripled between 2021 and 2025, increasing children’s risk of exposure to disease outbreaks, malnutrition and violence.

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UN peacekeeping chief warns of ‘security vacuum’ as Blue Helmets leave Lebanon and Western Sahara

2026-11-04T04:00:00-08:00

The UN’s peacekeeping chief warned on Wednesday that the withdrawal of “Blue Helmets” from Lebanon and Western Sahara risks leaving a dangerous security vacuum, while the Security Council remains divided over what, if anything, should replace them.

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‘This is not about politics. This is about people’: UN warns of impact of deadly drone strikes in Sudan

2026-11-03T04:00:00-08:00

Intensifying drone attacks on civilian infrastructure across Sudan are disrupting electricity, water and fuel supplies, putting lives at risk and hampering the delivery of humanitarian aid, the UN’s top official in the country has warned.

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Married off at 14: In Yemen’s war, women and girls suffer ‘devastating consequences’

2026-11-03T04:00:00-08:00

Safa is 14. Her mother died earlier this year. She has no brothers or sisters. And a few weeks ago, as the crisis took hold, her father married her to an elderly man, afraid that if he were killed in the hostilities, no one would be left to protect her.

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World News in Brief: Children killed in Myanmar strike, new violence flares in Mozambique, an Internet affordability milestone

2026-11-03T04:00:00-08:00

A school in Myanmar has been hit in an airstrike, with three children reported killed and five others injured, according to UN Children’s Fund UNICEF.

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Haiti gang leader seeks UN talks as El Salvador sends 2,000 troops to hunt for missing soldiers

2026-11-03T04:00:00-08:00

A Haitian gang leader wanted by the United States has asked the UN to mediate, as El Salvador sends more than 2,000 troops into the country to search for four of its soldiers who went missing after a gang ambush.

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Air raid alerts and attacks on schools: the devastating face of education in Ukraine

2026-11-03T04:00:00-08:00

Ukraine has sustained almost 2,000 attacks on education since the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, with some 270 this year alone, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after a strike at a school being used to distribute aid.

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The UN Human Rights Council at 20: Credibility in Question

2026-11-02T05:26:36-08:00

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay / BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, November 2 (IPS) - On 13 October, Burundi won a second consecutive term on the UN Human Rights Council, the UN’s main human rights body. The CIVICUS Monitor rates civic space in Burundi as closed, the worst category. Its government has spent years silencing civil society, critics and opposition parties, including through extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances and torture.

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