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• Air raid alerts and attacks on schools: the devastating face of education in Ukraine
• Myanmar: Children reported killed and injured in airstrike on shelter
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• Afghanistan: funding shortages close vital healthcare services - OCHA
• Ukraine: UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Nikolaj Coster-Waldau urges support for energy infrastructure renewal
• Global education fund seeks $600 million to help schools impacted by conflict

• Yemen: Aid out of reach as conflict intensifies – UNHCR
• $50 million appeal to help nine million people endure winter months
• Israel’s ‘yellow line’ in Gaza is a ‘kill zone’: OHCHR

• Haitians in grip of a deepening hunger crisis
• Yemen: WHO reports essential medicines reach Taiz City hospitals
• Afghanistan opium production jumps fivefold as farmers evade Taliban restrictions

• UNHCR alarm as Ethiopia violence forces thousands into Kenya
• Yemen: Fighting drives displacement in Taiz amid worsening conditions, says OCHA
• Global warming is an international emergency, insists WHO

• Record greenhouse gas concentrations raise climate alarm
• Ebola vaccine trial raises “hope” in DR Congo
• UNHCR urges continued support as Ukraine braces for winter

• Guterres warns against a new US-Iran escalation
• Ebola frontline nurse killed in DR Congo
• Ukraine probe insists Russia committed war crimes in attacks on civilians

• Yemen: deepening fears for people trapped in Taiz City: OCHA, UNICEF
• Don’t forget Sudan’s El Fasher survivors, one year since city fell: UN Women
• DR Congo Ebola outbreak reaches ever more remote areas: WHO

• Ebola contact tracing ongoing in Nigeria
• Ukraine capital targeted in more Russian strikes
• Unlawful deaths of older people ‘alarmingly under-reported’

• El Niño ‘wrecking ball’ need not be a humanitarian disaster
• Global warming will breach 1.5℃ – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back
• Sudan war: Peace efforts resume to end ‘drone war’ fuelling humanitarian crisis

• Yemen war closes in on densely populated Taiz City
• Afghanistan: worsening hunger outlook for millions
• 8 in 10 deaths caused by preventable diseases

• Protecting earth’s biodiversity in spotlight at COP17 in Armenia
• Gaza: Funding cuts leave half a million without food assistance
• Lebanon: UNIFIL peacekeepers continue supporting most vulnerable

• More than one million species face extinction, warns UN chief at COP17
• Gaza: 340 children killed despite so-called ceasefire, says UNICEF
• Yemen war has now displaced more than 230,000 people: IOM

• Second case of Ebola confirmed in Kenya amid ongoing transmission in DR Congo
• UN health agency urges global push to end lead exposure which kills 3.5 million annually
• Ukraine: Critical health supplies destroyed in ongoing Russian attacks: WHO

• Ukrainians targeted in another night of deadly Russian attacks: OCHA
• AI tool unveiled to help health workers tackle taboos over drinking: WHO
• Ethiopia: Aid access improves in north, but looting, displacement continue: OCHA

• $228 billion damage to homes from tsunamis, flooding and tremors: UNDRR
• Gazan farmers confronting danger to grow crops in war-torn enclave: FAO
• WHO supports call for mental health care in the community

• New devastating flooding disaster hits Nepal – UNICEF
• ‘Efficiency has limits’: UNHCR chief warns refugee protection is buckling under cuts
• Bridge Valdés Press freedom winner highlights bias against victims of sexual violence

• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay
• Nepal flooding disaster could happen again without international support -UNICEF
• Gaza: Almost all women and girls are displaced, most live in tents or ruins- UN Women

• Myanmar’s spiral into poverty: UNDP
• On World Sight Day, cheap reading glasses still out of reach: WHO
• 235,000 Gazans living hundreds of flood-prone sites

• Two in three child migrants travel alone to Europe
• Ebola alert: WHO chief voices solidarity with Kenya and Uganda after patient dies in Nairobi
• Yemen health funding facing critical shortages warns WHO