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Daily Wrap 11 December 2025
 

 

 

Medical equipment destroyed in an attack on a hospital in Gaza.
Gaza's maternal and newborn health system 'decimated', UN warns

Gaza's health system for mothers and newborns has been "decimated", the UN said on Thursday, with Israeli attacks destroying almost all hospitals, cutting off medical supplies and driving sharp rises in maternal deaths, miscarriages and newborn fatalities amid mass displacement and hunger.

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Peace and Security
Youth Forum participants brought messages of peace to the UN Alliance of Civilizations, in Cascais, Portugal.
Can dialogue heal a fractured world? A UN-led alliance is making the case

As 2025 draws to a close, geopolitical divides are deepening – North and South, East and West. Against this backdrop, the UN Alliance of Civilizations marks two decades of bridging divides as its Riyadh Forum takes on intolerance, hate speech, and the fight for mutual respect in a multipolar world.

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Culture and Education
Uvira, a major city in South Kivu on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, Democratic Republic of the Congo. (file photo)
UN warns of 'regional conflagration' as DR Congo violence uproots 500,000

More than half a million people have now been uprooted by escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) the UN said on Thursday, warning that the M23 rebel offensive is driving a rapidly worsening humanitarian emergency.

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Peace and Security
A house in southern Haiti is rebuilt to withstand strong winds and heavy rain.
Hurricane Melissa: WFP calls for greater investment in preparedness, building resilience

More than a month after Hurricane Melissa slammed the Caribbean, devastated communities still require assistance, the regional director for the World Food Programme (WFP) told journalists at UN Headquarters on Thursday. 

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Humanitarian Aid
A mother watches over her newborn in an incubator at the Kherson City Perinatal Centre in Ukraine. (file)
Risks mount for pregnant women in Ukraine

Pregnant women took shelter in a bunkerised maternity unit in the Ukrainian city of Kherson last week, after a hospital was struck just 1.5 km from the frontline.

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Peace and Security
A health worker immunizes a girl with the HPV vaccine in Lagos, Nigeria, as part of Africa's largest vaccination campaign.
WHO expert group reaffirms no link between vaccines and autism

A World Health Organization (WHO) expert committee has again confirmed that there is no causal link between vaccines and autism spectrum disorders (ASD), following a new review of global scientific evidence.

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Health
Children walk past street graffiti in Caracas, Venezuela. (file)
Venezuela's National Guard linked to killings, torture and repression, UN probe finds

Venezuela's Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) has been implicated in a decade-long pattern of killings, arbitrary detentions, torture and sexual violence targeting protesters and opponents of President Nicolás Maduro, according to a new report from UN-appointed investigators on Thursday.  

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Human Rights
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