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5 March 2025

A doctor in rural India checks a patient's chest x-ray for signs of tuberculosis or other lung infections.

Funding cuts jeopardize global fight against tuberculosis, WHO warns

The UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday that severe funding cuts – particularly in the United States – are threatening decades of progress in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), still the world's deadliest infectious disease.

Health

World News in Brief: Guterres convenes Cyprus summit, violence continues in southern Lebanon, UN aid hub in Chad expands

The UN Secretary-General on Wednesday announced a fresh bid to end the decades-long hostilities over the division of Cyprus through informal talks scheduled to take place over two days from 17 March.

Humanitarian Aid

Yasmen Almashan, founding member of the Caesar Families Association and part of the Free Syria's Disappeared coalition, addresses the Human Rights Council meeting on transitional justice.

Syrians' hopes for a better future depend on justice for the disappeared, Human Rights Council hears

The people of Syria's painful search for a peaceful future took centre stage at the UN on Wednesday as one leading representative of the families of the country's forcibly disappeared spoke of the continuing pain of not knowing their fate.

Human Rights

Displaced people set up makeshift shelters at an IDP camp in Haut-Mbomou, Central African Republic. (file)

UN report reveals brutal attacks targeting Muslims, refugees in Central African Republic

A UN report released on Wednesday has uncovered a pattern of grave human rights violations committed by armed groups in southeast Central African Republic (CAR), targeting Muslim communities and Sudanese refugees.

Human Rights

Nuclear non-proliferation activists attend a climate conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

'Humanity's future depends on investing in the machinery of peace': UN chief

"Humanity's future depends on investing in the machinery of peace, not the machinery of war," said Secretary-General António Guterres in a message marking the International Day for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Awareness.

Peace and Security

Destruction in the Al-Touam area in north Gaza where the Israeli decision to halt aid has hampered UN-led recovery efforts aimed at helping the most vulnerable in the shattered enclave.

Gaza: Israeli aid cut threatens care for most vulnerable, warns UNICEF

The unilateral halt to aid deliveries entering Gaza announced by the Israeli authorities on Sunday has left Gazans afraid of a return to violence and lifesaving healthcare services under threat, the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF, has warned.

Peace and Security