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MIDDLE EAST LIVE: Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in Doha ‘potentially opens a new and perilous chapter’

·September 12, 2025·1 min read

The UN Secretary-General has condemned an Israeli strike targeting Hamas leaders in Doha, the capital of Qatar, on Tuesday, while highlighting the “very positive role” played by the country in achieving a ceasefire in Gaza and securing the release of hostages....

Israeli strike in Doha marks ‘alarming escalation’, warns top UN official, in call to uphold diplomatic norms

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·September 11, 2025·2 min read

Rosemary DiCarlo described Tuesday’s strike in a residential area of the Qatari capital – which targeted Hamas’s political leadership killing several affiliates along with a Qatari security officer – as potentially opening a “new and perilous chapter in this devastating conflict, seriously threatening regional peace and stability.” The attack occurred...

Nepal crisis: Army deployed as death toll rises amid political turmoil

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·September 11, 2025·1 min read

The unrest began Monday as a self-styled “Gen Z protest” against corruption, nepotism and restrictions on social media. It quickly escalated after security forces opened fire on the crowds. By Tuesday, protesters had stormed and torched parliament, the Supreme Court and multiple government offices, including Singha Durbar – the central...

‘Shift the narrative’ on suicide to prevent loss of 720,000 lives annually

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·September 11, 2025·2 min read

Speaking on World Suicide Prevention Day, which is marked annually on 10 September, WHO’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “each life lost leaves a profound impact on families, friends, colleagues and entire communities.” All age groups are affected by suicide and was the third leading cause of death among 15–29-year-olds globally in...

Gaza: Ceasefire urgently needed as civilians left with ‘no safe place’ to go

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·September 11, 2025·1 min read

“We are witnessing a dangerous escalation in Gaza City, where Israeli forces have stepped up their operations and ordered everyone to move south,” said the Humanitarian Country Team in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. “Nearly one million people are now left with no safe or viable options – neither the north...

Haiti: UN relief chief implores ‘we have to do better’ to support gang-ravaged nation

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·September 10, 2025·4 min read

“I’m ashamed on behalf of the world that we cannot find it in ourselves to be more compassionate, to be more kind, to recognise what people here are going through,” said Tom Fletcher, who heads the UN emergency relief agency, OCHA, during a visit to the Caribbean nation. “I listened...

Nuclear watchdog chief announces breakthrough on Iran monitoring

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·September 10, 2025·1 min read

“Indispensable” monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ended in June, agency chief Rafael Grossi said, when Israel and US-backed airstrikes targeted Iran’s nuclear power installations. At the time, the Iranian authorities confirmed that the Natanz enrichment site had been “impacted” without affecting existing radiation levels, the top IAEA...

Peacekeeping: A lifeline for millions seeking a ‘future without fear’

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·September 10, 2025·3 min read

Governments and civil society organizations have so far submitted more than 60 contributions to a review process mandated under the Pact for the Future, agreed by Member States last year. The UN has an 80-year legacy that includes deploying multidimensional peacekeeping operations that combine police, troop and civilian personnel; special...

‘No ordinary session’: Baerbock opens UN General Assembly with call for courage and reform

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·September 10, 2025·4 min read

This will be “no ordinary session,” she pledged, with the multilateral system beset by overlapping crises and heightened disunity. A former foreign minister of Germany, Ms. Baerbock becomes only the fifth woman in history to preside over the General Assembly. In a symbolic gesture linking past to present, she swore...

Sudan’s people tortured and killed in ‘slaughterhouses’, rights probe says

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·September 10, 2025·2 min read

Shortly after presenting a mandated report to the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, insisted that both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia had carried out atrocity crimes. Among the testimonies gathered for the...

Ukraine: Russian strike on village kills over 20, mostly pensioners

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·September 9, 2025·2 min read

The attack on Yarova injured nearly 20 others. Many elderly civilians have decided to stay at home in frontline communities, despite the escalating danger from Russia’s continuing offensive, said Assistant Secretary-General Matthias Schmale, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country. “This lasting violence continues to tear lives apart. In recent...

Afghanistan quake: ‘Communities are struggling with basic survival’

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·September 9, 2025·3 min read

Briefing correspondents in New York via video link, Shannon O’Hara spoke from Jalalabad on the conditions in Afghanistan just days after the magnitude 6 earthquake and its devastating aftershocks. “We saw families whose lives had been shattered just within a few minutes,” the head of strategy for OCHA in Afghanistan...