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More than half of the deaths were never documented due to the difficulty of collecting reliable data on death tolls in conflict zones, made still harder by the brutality of Syria's war.
A U.N. Security Council resolution calls on Afghanistan's de factor rulers to quickly restore the rights of women and girls.
The deal brokered by U.N. and Red Cross officials between Yemen's Saudi-backed government and Iran-backed Houthi rebels is the first major prisoner swap in almost three years.
The Middle East and North African region is among the most vulnerable to climate change, but the public health impacts are relatively unknown.
A stranded supertanker, moored off the coast of Yemen near a pipeline to oil and gas fields, nearly sank in 2020.
The U.N.'s special envoy to Syria says an effective response to the earthquake "was hampered in part" by the war.
The U.N. emergency relief coordinator's office set a $4.3 billion target to help people suffering in the war-torn nation.
The death toll from the earthquakes rose to more than 36,000 people as the search continued despite a closing survival window.
Fresh snowfall, freezing temperatures and a disrupted cross-border operation added to the despair, frustration and anger.
Sultan Al Jaber also is UAE minister of industry and advanced technology and head of renewable energy company Masdar in Abu Dhabi.
The border crossing allows the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide food, medicine and other basic items to the 4.1 million mainly displaced inhabitants of Syria's northwest Idlib province.
The 29-8 vote in ECOSOC on Wednesday, with 16 abstentions, immediately expelled Iran from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, based on a U.S. resolution.
As a subsidiary of the U.N. Security Council, the commission processed and paid $52.4 billion to 1.5 million claimants for losses and damage suffered as a direct result of Iraq’s invasion and occupation of Kuwait from 1990 to 1991.
A U.N. special session responded to Tehran's violence and widespread protests over 22-year-old Mahsa Amini's death.
World leaders reached a deal for wealthy nations to pay billions of dollars into a loss and damage fund to help developing countries.
High prices and tight security in an 'exclusive playground': the lesser known, less-than-savory side of a climate summit.
