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UN agencies warn humanitarian system in Sudan ‘could collapse’
- UN News
UN aid agencies on Monday said they may be forced to scale back humanitarian aid in Sudan – home of the world’s worst hunger and displacement crisis – due to funding shortfalls.
Civilians bear the brunt, with deadly US strikes in Iran and thousands displaced in Yemen
- UN News
Independent UN human rights investigators called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on Monday following a series of United States airstrikes on Iran in recent weeks that have killed civilians as tensions ripple through the region.
IAEA chief underscores commitment to nuclear safety and verification
- UN News
The Director General of the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, opened its 70th General Conference on Monday in Vienna with a message full of optimism, stressing that despite the many difficulties and tensions the world is witnessing a “common spirit of dedication” still guides the work of the UN agency.
‘Where do we go?’: How Israel’s ‘yellow line’ is closing in on Palestinians
- UN News
Ola Ishtiwi sits with her children in front of the remains of her home in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in eastern Gaza City, a few metres away from a series of painted cement blocks Israel has placed to mark what has become known as the “yellow line”.
Central Asia Marks 20 Years of Its Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone With Renewed Call for Disarmament
- Inter Press Service
TOKYO, Japan, September 11 (IPS) - Twenty years after five Central Asian states signed a landmark treaty banning nuclear weapons across their region, their foreign ministers have used the anniversary to warn that faltering arms-control agreements, nuclear modernization and deepening international mistrust are placing global security under growing strain.
At Hammarskjöld’s Grave, Sixty-Five Years After Ndola
- Inter Press Service
Late in August I stood at Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave in Uppsala. It is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent.
He died sixty-five years ago this month, on 18 September 1961, in an aircraft crash near Ndola, in what is now Zambia. He was fifty-six, on his way to seek a ceasefire in the Congo, where the secession of the mineral-rich province of Katanga had drawn a newly independent country into conflict and great-power rivalry.
Leaving the cemetery, I found myself thinking about the office he held and about a practice he helped build that the organisation has praised ever since but never fully sustained.
Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors mark 9/11 with counter-terrorism push on AI and drones
- UN News
The Security Council met to mark 25 years since the 9/11 attacks, with a briefing on counter-terrorism as ambassadors take stock of a threat that has morphed dramatically since resolution 1373 built the council's counter-terrorism machinery in 2001. Briefers are expected to zero in on militants' growing use of artificial intelligence, drones and encrypted platforms for recruitment and attack planning. Members are also set to adopt a presidential statement – the Council's first on terrorism in five years – after reportedly tense talks over references to specific groups and new tech language.
Terrorist propaganda is outpacing global efforts to stop it, UN report finds
- UN News
Terrorist groups are recruiting, raising money and even planning operations through propaganda that is now “embedded” in every stage of their work, a new UN report warns – and governments are struggling to keep pace.
Ukraine: Drone attacks on Chornobyl are ‘gambling with the safety of millions of people’
- UN News
A drone strike on the protective structure at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant could have endangered the safety of millions of people, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator Alexander De Croo told reporters via video link from Kyiv on Thursday.
‘An assault on humanity itself’: Guterres pays tribute to 9/11 victims, survivors and first responders
- UN News
Twenty-five years ago, the heinous terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 against the United States claimed thousands of lives and represented “an assault on humanity itself”, the UN chief said on Thursday.
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