United Nations World News

• Pollution, melting microbes, undamming rivers, risks for elders: 4 key climate issues

  In a world increasingly shaped by climate extremes, environmental experts are delivering a blunt warning: four rapidly emerging threats could reshape life for millions unless urgent action is taken.

• UN urges restraint as Thailand-Cambodia clashes displace thousands; Security Council meets

  The UN Secretary-General has urged “utmost restraint” amid intensifying border clashes between Thailand and Cambodia as the Security Council met behind closed doors on Friday to address the most serious escalation between the two Southeast Asian neighbours in more than a decade.

• Syria: Deadly sectarian violence displaces thousands in Sweida; healthcare attacked

  As deadly sectarian violence continues to displace hundreds of thousands of civilians in Syria’s Sweida Governorate, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Friday that attacks on health facilities had killed two doctors.

• Gaza: More deaths reported as starvation spreads

  The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has again sounded the alarm over the catastrophic and rapidly deteriorating conditions in the Gaza Strip as Israeli military operations continue to cause death, displacement and destruction.  

• Gaza First Person: ‘The best of humankind in a place abandoned by humanity’

  In the centre of war-torn Gaza, UN staff continue to work despite the “unprecedented” destruction and suffering around them, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Head of Office.