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Daily Wrap 20 August 2024

UN chief highlights 'unimaginable grief' stemming from terror attacks The UN Secretary-General has paid tribute to victims and survivors of terrorism just ahead of the international day which spotlights the issue each year. Read more Human Rights Lebanon: Crisis deepens amid escalating conflict and funding shortfalls The urgency of deescalating tensions along the frontier that separates Lebanese and Israeli armed forces, "cannot be overstated", a senior UN humanitarian official said on Tuesday. Read more Peace and Security World News in Brief: Ukraine alert over new attacks, more Nicaragua NGO closures, disinformation in DRC The UN's top humanitarian official in Ukraine on Tuesday condemned "yet another attack" carried out by Russian forces in the eastern Donetsk region. Read more Peace and Security Status quo 'not sustainable' in increasingly unstable Libya, Security Council hears Recent "unilateral acts" by rival sides in Libya have led to a rapid deterioration in political and economic stability coupled with rising insecurity, a senior UN official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday.  Read more Peace and Security Europe can defeat mpox, must support Africa in getting vaccines: WHO Mpox is "not the 'new COVID'" and European governments need to show strong political commitment to eliminate it, while standing in solidarity with Africa, a top official of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. Read more Health Mpox: What you need to know about the latest public health emergency The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the mpox virus across Africa triggered the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare it once again a public health emergency of international concern last week. Read more Health

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