A Famous Palestinian Activist Killed in the Occupied West Bank
A photo of Palestinian activist Awdah Al Hathaleen, who witnesses say was killed by an Israeli settler, hangs in the entrance to his home in the village of Umm al-Khair,…
Children are ‘skin and bones’ as Sudan marks a grim milestone
It is a grim milestone for Sudan, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. But with insufficient funding, lack of access to key regions and intensifying violence, milestones like this have become…
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Israel calls for focus on Gaza hostages’ plight
© UNRWA Destruction in northern Gaza. Tuesday, August 05, 2025 UN News The Security Council is meeting to discuss rising concern in Israel and elsewhere over the dire conditions facing…
World News in Brief: Child deaths in Pakistan, Ukrainian rail station attack, new UN-India development partnership
The children picked up the unexploded ordnance in a nearby field, mistaking it for a toy, and brought it back to their village where it later detonated, UNICEF said. The…
Gaza crisis deepens as UN warns children are ‘dying before reaching hospital’
With 96 per cent of households lacking clean water, many malnourished children are not surviving long enough to receive hospital care. James Elder, Spokesperson for the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF),…
Hunger in Gaza: Women and children face death in search of food
“I used to easily receive aid distributed by the UN,” Abir Safi, a displaced person from the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, told UN News. “Now, we get nothing. I…
Mum and kids stranded at airport for 15 hours after Jet2 ‘deny boarding’
Megan Patrick says she was ‘in sheer panic’ when she and her children were denied boarding on a Jet2 flight from Palma Airport back to Newcastle after a four-day break…
Tragedy as couple drown in flash floods while holidaying in Majorca with friends
Alexander Barrett, 32, died along with his partner Sarah Thompson, 26, in the Spanish island of Majorca last year as a “wall of water” cascaded down the canyon they were…
Inspector, 65, dragged beneath train after jumping on tracks to save teen girl
Narciso Mimbela Rosas, a 65-year-old train inspector, is in intensive care after being dragged under a train when he leapt onto railway tracks to try and save a 14-year-old girl…
4 European countries agree to buy a combined $1 billion in U.S. weapons for Ukraine
Ukrainians have made a makeshift memorial outside an apartment building in the capital Kyiv that was hit by a Russian airstrike on July 31. A combined missile and drone attack…