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Gaza: 100 per cent of basic food needs met for first time since 2023

·January 5, 2026·1 min read

“The January round is the first since October 2023, in which partners had sufficient stock to meet 100 per cent of the minimum caloric standard,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists on Monday. That’s compared to the end of 2025, when each family received just 50 to 75 per cent...

Security Council LIVE: ‘The power of the law must prevail,’ says Guterres

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·January 5, 2026·1 min read

The Security Council is meeting in emergency session in New York to address the US rendition of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro from Caracas, a move that has sent shockwaves through the region and beyond. The UN chief António Guterres told ambassadors there must be respect for national sovereignty, “political independence...

Yemen aid response buckling under funding cuts as needs keep rising

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·January 4, 2026·1 min read

According to the December humanitarian update from aid coordination office, OCHA, Yemen’s 2025 Humanitarian Needs and Response Plan is just 25 per cent funded, forcing agencies to scale back life-saving services across all sectors, despite worsening needs. Health and protection services have been particularly hard hit, exposing vulnerable communities to growing...

Security Council: New faces, old tensions as five nations take their seats

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·January 4, 2026·4 min read

Bahrain, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Latvia and Liberia have begun two-year terms as non-permanent members, replacing Algeria, Guyana, the Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone and Slovenia, whose terms ended last month. They join the other five non-permanent members – Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, Panama and Somalia – who...

‘Do not give up on children’: Displaced by violence, a Haitian girl finds hope at school

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·January 3, 2026·4 min read

A teenage Haitian girl who was forced to flee her home in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, due to gang violence has urged adults not to “give up on children.” Thirteen-year-old Dieussika was living peacefully with her family before armed violence and insecurity forced them to flee. “We had to leave our...

US actions in Venezuela ‘constitute a dangerous precedent’: Guterres

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·January 3, 2026·2 min read

US President Donald Trump made the announcement on social media, and the US Attorney General said Mr. Maduro and his wife would face “the full wrath of American justice on American soil, in American courts,” based on a 2020 narcoterrorism indictment during the first Trump administration in New York. The...

A woman dies from cervical cancer every two minutes, UN says

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·January 3, 2026·1 min read

“I felt betrayed by my body,” she told the World Health Organization (WHO) as part of an initiative to eliminate the disease. Cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer in women, took Jeanette’s life a year after she was diagnosed. In January each year, Cancer Awareness Month, WHO underscores that the illness...

Gaza aid lifelines under strain as winter worsens

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·January 3, 2026·3 min read

Since the fragile October ceasefire began as phase one of the US-led peace plan, thousands of tents and hundreds of thousands of tarpaulins have been distributed. Yet partners estimate that over one million people – around half of Gaza’s population – still urgently need shelter support. “The needs remain immense,...

Drop draft proposals on death penalty for Palestinians, UN rights chief urges Israel

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·January 2, 2026·1 min read

High Commissioner Volker Türk said the series of draft proposals before Israel’s Knesset raise grave concerns over discrimination, due process violations, and breaches of international human rights and humanitarian law. “When it comes to the death penalty, the United Nations is very clear, and opposes it under all circumstances,” he...

New year dawns amid rubble and resolve in Gaza

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·January 2, 2026·1 min read

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians remain uprooted, many living in makeshift tents pitched on bare ground or squeezed into damaged buildings without reliable access to water, electricity, healthcare or sanitation. Winter rains have compounded the hardship, flooding shelters and turning camp pathways into heavy mud. Fragile hope Yet, amid the...

Gaza battered by heavy rains as humanitarian response continues

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·January 2, 2026·1 min read

Heavy seasonal downpours are compounding an already dire humanitarian situation, as rainstorms cause war-damaged buildings to collapse, flood tents and soak people’s belongings, OCHA said. To respond swiftly to flood alerts, a coordinated system bringing together UN agencies and non-governmental organizations is distributing tents, tarpaulins, warm clothes, blankets and dignity...

General Assembly approves $3.45 billion UN regular budget for 2026

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·January 2, 2026·1 min read

The budget – approved by the 193-member General Assembly on Tuesday – authorizes $3.45 billion for the coming year, covering the Organization’s three core pillars of work: peace and security, sustainable development, and human rights. While the approved budget is roughly $200 million higher than the Secretary-General’s proposal prepared under...