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Daily Wrap 23 September 2024
Strikes in Hebbariyeh village in southern Lebanon come amid intensifying exchanges of fire either side of the Blue Line separating Israel and Lebanon.
Dramatic uptick in violence as Guterres voices grave alarm at Lebanon-Israel escalation

Tensions continued to ratchet up in the Middle East on Monday with reports of hundreds of retaliatory Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon which have reportedly left nearly 300 dead, and strikes in Gaza including on a refugee camp, UN humanitarians said.

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Peace and Security
A woman holds a 6-month-old child while sitting in rubble of homes in Afghanistan which were destroyed by an earthquake.
Afghanistan: No future without women's participation

Afghan women earned the right to vote more than a century ago. Today, under Taliban rule, they are practically erased from public life and even banned from singing. 

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Women
Erik Møse, Chairperson of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine (file).
Torture 'a common and acceptable practice' in Ukraine war, UN investigators say

Russian authorities are using torture "with a sense of impunity" in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva heard on Monday. 

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Human Rights
A teenager in Ukraine stops to take a photograph of a work by British street artist Banksy, in the war-ravaged town of Irpin (file).
World News in Brief: 1.3 billion teens suffering mental disorders, Russia's Indigenous Peoples face 'extinction', Belarus rights update

At least one in seven youngsters has a mental disorder. That's the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO), which has appealed for much greater investment to help almost 1.3 billion teenagers globally.

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Health
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