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UN agency PAHO warns of sharp measles surge across Americas, urges action
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
A UN agency has warned of a sharp rise in measles cases across the Americas, with over 1,000 infections recorded in early 2026. Major outbreaks in the US, Mexico and Canada threaten measles elimination status, prompting calls for urgent vaccination and surveillance.
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Pakistan faces urgent population challenge as it heads into 2026: UN agenc
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
UNFPA warned that Pakistan's growing population, gender inequality and climate risks require urgent policy changes. The agency urged reforms in planning and financing to reward progress in health, education and equality, while addressing persistent challenges like maternal mortality and unme
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DR Congo confirms new Ebola outbreak in Kasai province
Updated : 5 months, 3 weeks ago IST
DRC is facing a new Ebola outbreak in Kasai province, with 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths. The WHO has sent experts and supplies to help contain the virus. Health Minister Roger Kamba said investigations are ongoing, while WHO urged rapid measures to prevent further spread.
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UN Agency classifies Gaza in famine, amid controversy over aid flow, metho
Updated : 7 months ago IST
A new report by the UN-affiliated Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared that famine is occurring in Gaza, the first such classification in the Middle East.
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Israel to deny visa extension to UN agency chief over 'hostile conduct'
Updated : 7 months, 2 weeks ago IST
The reports, seen by TPS-IL accuse Israel of "genocide," organ theft, using banned thermal weapons, burying Palestinians in mass graves, massacring Palestinians in Gaza's Shifa Hospital, deliberately using Palestinians as human shields, and sexually assaulting Palestinian women. These report
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Israel withdraws recognition of UNRWA
Updated : 1 year, 4 months ago IST
Israel withdrew its recognition of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon tweeted on Monday morning.
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Gaza: Six UNRWA staff killed in Israeli strikes on school-turned-shelter,
Updated : 1 year, 6 months ago IST
Six staff members of the UN agency were among those killed in Israeli airstrikes at a school-turned-shelter in Gaza, the United Nations said.
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Palestinians flee from Bureij, Nuseirat refugee camp after Israel issued
Updated : 1 year, 8 months ago IST
Palestinians, including children, are fleeing with their belongings from the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip after the Israeli army issued new evacuation orders on Sunday, Al Jazeera reported.
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UN Migration Agency says death toll mounts to over 670 from landslide in P
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Following a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, the International Organization for Migration has raised its estimate of the death toll to more than 670 now, according to Al Jazeera.
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Raising questions, UN agency cuts in half the number of women, children ki
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
A United Nations agency tracking Gaza's casualty figures reduced by half the number of women and children killed in the Strip since October 7, raising questions about conflict's true death toll.
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Egypt announces intent to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
In a statement, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated, "The submission ... comes in light of the worsening severity and scope of Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, and the continued perpetration of systematic practices against the Palestinian people, i
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How a UN agency puts unfiltered Hamas propaganda on the record?
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
The Press Service of Israel has learned that the agency in question, the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is republishing reports produced by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, a Geneva-based non-governmental organization.
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