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UN Security Council condemns Jammu and Kashmir terror attack

·April 26, 2025·1 min read

In a press statement issued on Friday, Council members expressed their deepest sympathy and condolences to the families of the victims, as well as to the Governments of India and Nepal. They also extended wishes for a speedy and full recovery to those injured in Tuesday’s attack in which a...

UN denounces deadly Palm Sunday attack in Ukraine

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·April 15, 2025·1 min read

The two missiles struck a busy street in the city centre, damaging residential buildings, an educational facility and civilian vehicles, as people were out celebrating Palm Sunday, a major religious holiday in Ukraine. UN Secretary-General António Guterres was deeply alarmed and shocked to learn of the attack his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said...

Israeli attack puts Gaza City hospital out of service

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·April 14, 2025·2 min read

“Al Ahli Hospital is out of service,” WHO spokesperson Dr Margaret Harris told UN News, after the airstrike early on Sunday morning. “The pharmacy was destroyed, many of the different buildings and services were destroyed.” Some 40 patients whose condition is too critical to be moved from the health facility are continuing...

UN rights chief urges probe into Russian attack that killed nine children in Ukraine

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·April 6, 2025·2 min read

Volker Türk issued a statement expressing shock at the attack, which occurred on Friday evening in a residential area. A team from the UN Human Rights Office in Ukraine visited the impact site the following day, documented the damage, and established the names and identity of the children who were...

UN deplores deadly attack on city in central Ukraine

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·April 5, 2025·1 min read

Matthias Schmale said he was outraged by reports of yet another Russian attack on the city, which is located in the Dnipro region. “This attack follows a deeply disturbing pattern of repeated attacks on populated areas across Ukraine that continue to kill and maim civilians,” he said, noting that the...

Scores killed in ‘abhorrent attack’ on UN helicopter in South Sudan

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·March 8, 2025·1 min read

More than two dozen members of the South Sudanese military, including an injured General, were also reportedly killed when the UN mission (UNMISS) helicopter came under fire in Nasir, Upper Nile State. According to news reports, the helicopter later landed safely. The extraction was being carried out at the request...

World News in Brief: Children killed in Darfur hospital attack, date set for US climate pact withdrawal, WHO leads call to fight neglected diseases

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·January 29, 2025·2 min read

The children were among the patients being treated in the hospital’s emergency ward for injuries from previous bombings in the area, said the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF. “This heinous attack is a blatant violation of children’s rights. Children are being killed and injured in the very places where they should...

DR Congo emergency: Fears that regional capital Goma faces attack

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·January 24, 2025·3 min read

“We are deeply alarmed at the heightened risk of an attack by the M23 armed group on Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo…Any such attack on Goma risks catastrophic impacts on hundreds of thousands of civilians, putting them at heightened exposure to human...

Ukraine: Zaporizhzhia attack marks highest civilian casualties in nearly two years

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·January 12, 2025·2 min read

Thirteen civilians were killed, and 110 injured, when two aerial bombs struck an industrial facility in the southern city. This marks the largest number of casualties the HRMMU has recorded since a residential building in Dnipro city was struck on 14 January 2023, and the deadliest since a supermarket in...

World News in Brief: Famine spreads in Sudan, deadly attack in Myanmar, Venezuela update

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·January 11, 2025·3 min read

The World Food Programme (WFP) provided lifesaving assistance to 7.8 million people, while the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reached nearly three million children with essential nutrition support. This was done in the face of an escalating crisis resulting from the brutal war between rival militaries which erupted in April 2023...

Gaza war: UN World Food Programme condemns Israeli attack on aid convoy

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·January 6, 2025·2 min read

The WFP issued a statement on Monday condemning the attack insisting that its vehicles had been “clearly marked”. “At least 16 bullets” struck the convoy of three vehicles carrying eight staff members which came under fire near Wadi Gaza checkpoint. “Thankfully, no staff members were injured in this terrifying encounter,”...

UN chief condemns New Orleans truck attack

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·January 2, 2025·1 min read

Media reports indicated that a US male citizen had intentionally driven a pick-up truck into a crowd of people celebrating the new year in the city’s French quarter shortly after 3am local time. The 42-year-old suspect was killed in a police shootout that injured two officers. His potential allegiance to...