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WMO's governing body expressed an urgent need to accelerate life-saving warnings and defend climate data integrity.
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WMO's governing body expressed an urgent need to accelerate life-saving warnings and defend climate data integrity.
The main outcome was the adoption of a declaration to uphold humanitarian norms and support humanitarian action.
Amid a global assault on facts, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres spoke up for climate science and meteorology.
The International Court of Justice noted that the population of the Gaza Strip has been "inadequately supplied" with aid.
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The arbitrary arrests intensify the humanitarian crisis, threatening aid cutbacks for over 19 million people.
The U.N. chief stressed the lack of reliable funding now threatens the U.N.'s core mandate and its 'regular functioning.'
WFP warned that global funding cuts could push 13.7 million food aid recipients from crisis to emergency levels of hunger.
ICRC teams received hostages in Gaza and transferred Palestinians from Israeli detention to Gaza and the West Bank.
Maria Corina Machado's award underscores Venezuela's humanitarian crisis and a split among U.N. messaging.
The U.N. chief commended the diplomatic efforts of the U.S., Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey in brokering the breakthrough.
The move is linked to the Trump administration’s "America First" policy and a U.S. cap on peacekeeping payments.
The diplomatic process advanced after Hamas conditionally accepted the main parts of the U.S.-backed peace framework.
Almost 1,400 Swiss glaciers remain, the most among European nations, but over 1,000 small glaciers have already melted.
Among the cuts: USAID, $3.2 billion; international organizations, $521 million; democracy fund, $322 million.
To counter these threats, the U.N. formed an independent scientific panel to report on the effects of a nuclear war.
 
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
   
    
  