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AI in advertising risks fuelling misinformation crisis, UN warns
In a new brief titled Strengthening Information Integrity: Advertising, Artificial Intelligence and the Global Information Crisis, the Department of Global...
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Over half of South Sudan’s population faces acute hunger crisis
Hunger is pushing 56 per cent of South Sudan’s population into high levels of acute food insecurity between April and...
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UN rights chief warns of escalating crackdown in Iran amid conflict
Volker Türk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said he was “appalled that – on top of the already...
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Iran crisis shows fossil fuels-based energy system ‘is inherently volatile and unstable’
The last major UN climate conference (COP30 in Brazil) broke up without a breakthrough agreement on phasing out coal, oil...
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From Hormuz to Lebanon, crisis reverberates through trade routes, upending humanitarian networks
Addressing the agency’s governing body in Rome on Tuesday, Director-General Qu Dongyu said the closure of key maritime routes is...
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World News in Brief: Syria human rights update, Cuba post-hurricane support still vital, impunity and violence in Myanmar
UN human rights investigators were informed of the discovery - made last month – during a five-day mission to Al-Hassakeh Governorate that concluded on Tuesday. ...
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WHO calls for stepped up action to eliminate viral hepatitis
It highlights significant gains made in the fight against hepatitis B and C, which together account for 95 per cent of all hepatitis-related deaths worldwide. These...
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SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Gaza ceasefire is ‘increasingly fragile’, UN warns
The Security Council turns again to the Middle East crisis in New York on Tuesday, with debate focusing on the...
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Darfur: Two decades on, a new generation of children faces ‘horrific violence’
In a new Child Alert report titled Darfur: 20 Years On, Children Under Threat, UN children’s agency UNICEF warns that...
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Afghanistan risks losing 25,000 women teachers and health workers
The agency said the crisis is already depriving children of learning and healthcare, while also weakening Afghanistan’s economy and the...
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