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‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake
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‘She cries in her sleep’: Deeper crisis looms beneath devastation from Myanmar quake

“I hate earthquakes. Earthquakes took my mother and my aunt away,” five-year-old Khin Yadanar told the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), after both her mother and aunt were killed when a brick...

9 May 2025 · 4 min read

World News in Brief: South Sudan urged to avoid slide to war, Türk calls on EU not to weaken landmark law, Ukraine and Mali updates
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World News in Brief: South Sudan urged to avoid slide to war, Türk calls on EU not to weaken landmark law, Ukraine and Mali updates

The Quartet is calling on the country’s leaders to end hostilities and return to dialogue to fully implement the 2018 peace agreement known as the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution...

9 May 2025 · 5 min read

UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples
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UN rights body rules Guatemala failed displaced Mayan Peoples

The landmark decision, announced on Thursday, also considered the harm caused to succeeding generations.“Forced displacement is permanent in nature until the victims benefit from a safe and dignified return to...

8 May 2025 · 3 min read

New horror in Gaza as double strike on school shelter kills 30
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New horror in Gaza as double strike on school shelter kills 30

The UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, maintained that Israeli forces hit the school in Al Bureij, Middle Gaza, at around 6pm on Tuesday and again at 10.20pm.“The school sustained...

7 May 2025 · 5 min read

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Exhausted Sudanese flee into Chad as fighting escalates

Nearly 20,000 people – mainly traumatized women and children – have reached Chad in the past two weeks, according to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR. “Most arrived in Chad with nothing...

6 May 2025 · 3 min read