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Children have been killed and injured in fresh fighting in Baidoa, in Somalia's South West State, where families were already facing severe hunger and other overlapping crises.

Artificial Intelligence or AI - and the technology behind it - is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is who gets a seat at the table deciding how it's used and who gets to benefit.

What if the world tackled inequality with the same kind of scientific firepower it has brought to the climate crisis?

UN teams are racing to protect families in Gaza from the coming rainy season, but restricted access to land and shortages of critical supplies are hampering the effort, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said on Wednesday.

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, has voiced concern over Malaysia's decision to return 1,476 people to Myanmar amid an ongoing civil war and a dire human rights and humanitarian situation.

Four in five households in Lebanon struggle to afford basic necessities today, with children increasingly going without food, missing school and being pushed into work as conflict compounds years of economic crisis. "I wanted to buy clothes for my .. ...

The UN is continuing efforts to support Palestinians in Gaza amid major challenges to humanitarian access, reconstruction and the restoration of essential services, according to Ramiz Alakbarov, Acting UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace ...

Homicide rates are falling across much of the world, but organised crime is on the rise in many regions as criminal networks diversify into trafficking, migrant smuggling, and the exploitation of natural resources, a new UN report launched on ...

NEW YORK, September 30 (IPS) - Years ago, standing in a small farmer's field in Haiti, I began to suspect that we had agriculture backward. The development world saw a man in need of rescue. I saw a farmer who might help rescue the rest of us.

BRUSSELS, Belgium / MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, September 30 (IPS) - At the 18th BRICS Summit, held on 12 and 13 September in New Delhi, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought together presidents Xi Jinping of China, Vladimir Putin of Russia and ...