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UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned the Israeli strike on Thursday that hit the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip. 

Pakistan’s monsoon emergency deepened on Thursday as authorities declared disaster zones across parts of eastern Punjab state after lethal cloudbursts and flash floods killed dozens in a single day.

A group of Indigenous youth from the United States, some as young as seven, visited the United Nations Headquarters in New York this week for the first time. 

The Security Council meets this afternoon for an emergency session on Syria after a wave of Israeli airstrikes reportedly hit military sites and key locations in Damascus, killing and injuring civilians and soldiers. The meeting was requested by Syria and backed by Council members Algeria and Somalia. A senior UN political affairs official is expected to brief ambassadors, with regional countries also participating. Stay with us for live updates, in coordination with UN Meetings Coverage. UN News App users can follow here.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk has deplored deadly attacks in Sudan’s Kordofan region this week, his office said in a statement on Thursday.

From makeshift furniture in Gaza to metro classrooms in Ukraine and solar-powered tablets in Sudan, the UN is working to bring education to millions of crisis-affected children.

As years of war in Ukraine have left millions without unreliable heating and limited means to pay rising utility costs, the UN and humanitarian partners launched this Thursday a $277 million appeal to support the most vulnerable people during the coming winter.  

Conditions in Gaza have reached an unspeakable level of devastation with children paying the highest price, top UN officials told the Security Council on Wednesday, warning of soaring child deaths, starvation and a shattered health system amid continuing bombardment and displacement.

In the midst of the Women’s Euro football championship in Switzerland, Volker Türk, the UN human rights chief, called on Member States and sports clubs around the world to address the vast gender gap which still exists in women’s sport. 

Craters filled with muddy water pocket the landscape of the Kono district in Sierra Leone – the result of past diamond mining ventures which sparked a vicious local battle over resources.

In violence-wracked Haiti, more than 5.7 million people are estimated to be food insecure, with many unable to meet their daily food needs.

Clashes between Bedouin tribal fighters, caretaker government forces and Druze militias stretched into their fourth day in Sweida on Wednesday while Israeli forces struck the Syrian capital, Damascus.