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U.S. Strikes Iranian Targets Along Strait of Hormuz Ahead of Midterm Elections as Diplomatic Talks Stall
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, November 4 (IPS) - On November 2, the United States launched a series of limited, defensive strikes on Iranian targets on Qeshm Island and strategic areas along the Strait of Hormuz. Fired in response to earlier strikes from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on U.S. aircraft and drones over the Strait, U.S. President Trump noted that the operation does not signal a broader escalation of hostilities and that a diplomatic solution could still be reached.
‘This is not about politics. This is about people’: UN warns of impact of deadly drone strikes in Sudan
- UN News
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.
Married off at 14: In Yemen’s war, women and girls suffer ‘devastating consequences’
- UN News
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.
World News in Brief: Children killed in Myanmar strike, new violence flares in Mozambique, an Internet affordability milestone
- UN News
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.
Haiti gang leader seeks UN talks as El Salvador sends 2,000 troops to hunt for missing soldiers
- UN News
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.
Air raid alerts and attacks on schools: the devastating face of education in Ukraine
- UN News
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.
World News in Brief: healthcare crisis in Yemen’s Taiz and Afghanistan, Western Sahara mission's phased closure
- UN News
The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is worsening, particularly in the southwestern city of Taiz, which is being encircled by paramilitary Iran-backed Houthi forces.
Ukraine: WFP provides hot meals to Oleshky evacuees as UN pushes to restore power before winter
- UN News
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is providing emergency food assistance to more than 400 people who were able to leave the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky, in Ukraine’s Kherson region, during a brief local ceasefire.
Ethiopia: Violence in the north is pushing health system to the brink, WHO chief warns
- UN News
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) called on Monday for greater protection for civilians caught in conflict in northern Ethiopia following deadly drone strikes this past weekend.
Western Sahara: UN ‘stands ready’ to keep supporting peace efforts as MINURSO mission ends
- UN News
The UN remains committed to supporting a just, lasting and mutually acceptable political solution in Western Sahara that provides for the self-determination of its people, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sunday, as the UN peacekeeping mission there began to wind down.
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