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Human Rights Watch has reported that the Israeli military employed white phosphorus munitions, prohibited in residential zones globally, in an assault on 17 Lebanese settlements.

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has targeted another Israeli base in northern occupied Palestine in support of the people of Gaza.

Lebanon's Hezbollah Resistance Movement has carried out fresh missile attack on the positions of the Zionist military in the north of occupied Palestine, news sources reported in the early hours of Wednesday.

A senior Hezbollah official warns that Israel will "face devastation and destruction" if it moves to expand the war against Lebanon.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq says it has conducted new retaliatory strikes on the Israeli positions in the occupied territories.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, estimates that more than 2.9 million refugees worldwide will need resettlement next year, according to the Projected Global Resettlement Needs 2025 report released today.

Around 181 million children worldwide under 5 years of age - or 1 in 4 - are experiencing severe child food poverty, making them up to 50 per cent more likely to experience wasting, a life-threatening form of malnutrition, a new UNICEF report reveals today.

Acute food insecurity is set to increase in magnitude and severity in 18 hunger "Hotspots", a new United Nations early warning report has revealed today. The report spotlights the urgent need of assistance to prevent famine in Gaza and the Sudan, and further deterioration in the devastating hunger crises in Haiti, Mali, and South Sudan. It also warns of the lingering impact of El

The Taliban has publicly flogged dozens of people in a sports stadium in northern Afghanistan after their convictions for crimes involving "immoral relations."

The number of people going hungry in Haiti has reached record levels amid ongoing gang violence, the head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) there said on Wednesday in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The ruling Cambodian People's Party won the majority of the seats in the May 26 provincial, municipal and district council elections, according to the National Election Committee's official count.

China gifted 3,000 metric tons of Tibet's glacial water to the island nation of the Maldives in two separate batches in March and May — the same months it unveiled and implemented water conservation regulations at home.

For more than a decade, Hungary's right-wing leader Viktor Orban has had little trouble sticking to a script. Vilify the left to promote his "illiberal" political vision. Castigate aloof EU officials preoccupied with perceived wokeness or imposing immigration. Blame a cost-of-living crisis on warmongering Russia-haters.

A spokesperson for the UN human rights office (OHCHR) on Wednesday said he was "deeply disturbed" over the widespread and continued use of corporal punishment in Afghanistan.

The U.S. Embassy in Beirut said Wednesday its staff and facility were safe after gunfire was reported near the embassy entrance.

The U.N. secretary-general said Wednesday that the world is "at a moment of truth" to reach targets in the 2015 Paris climate accord to limit global warming, as the planet has just experienced the 12 hottest consecutive months on record.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy arrived on June 5 on an official visit to Qatar for talks with the Qatari leader regarding the return of Ukrainian children deported by Russia.

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Aviation, drones, missiles, and artillery all targeted the Hortitsa operational-strategic grouping of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and Foreign Legion militants.