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El Niño set to become very strong, raising risks of extreme weather into 2027

Note: El Niño is firmly established and is expected to strengthen further. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Forecasts show near 100% likelihood that it will ...
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Update: World Humanitarian Day 2026: Aid workers under fire as armed drones transform war-making

 Note: The World Humanitarian Day is observed every year on 19 August to mark the anniversary of the bombing in 2003 of the Canal Hotel ...
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Record 756 million women now live in the shadow of armed conflict

Note: A new report finds that the number of women living in conflict zones has nearly tripled since 1990, with the sharpest rise in sub-Saharan ...
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Refugees in South Sudan Face Extreme Hunger as Funds Run Out

Juba, South Sudan, 14 August 2026 – More than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan risk losing further access to lifesaving food, nutrition and ...
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Five years after the Taliban takeover: the normalization of the exclusion of women and girls in Afghanistan

  Note: New UN Women data reveals that half of Afghan women interviewed leave home only once or twice a month because of the severe ...
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Afghanistan: Five years on, the world has turned its back on Afghan civilians

Note: This new press release from the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) marks five years since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and it calls on NATO ...
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Update: AI4 2026 sets new records with 50 % attendance growth as more than 12,000 global AI leaders from 100 countries gather in Las Vegas to explore the future of AI

Las Vegas, Nevada, 7 August, 2026 — Ai4 2026, America’s largest and most influential artificial intelligence conference, concluded yesterday after welcoming more than 12,000 attendees ...
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WORLD’S LEADING AI INNOVATORS, RESEARCHERS AND ENTERPRISE EXECUTIVES ATTEND AI4 2026

Note: AI4 2026 opens today at The Venetian in Las Vegas with more than 12,000 attendees from 85 countries expected at America’s largest Artificial Intelligence ...
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AFGHANISTAN’S CHILD MALNUTRITION CRISIS DEEPENS AS CUTS TO AID PUT LIVES AT RISK

Note: WFP News Release Kabul, Afghanistan, 4 August 2026 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is sounding the alarm over a deepening child malnutrition ...
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UN renews calls for equal sharing of AI progress at China’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference

Shanghai, China, 17 July 2026 – The United Nations and China shared the view that progress made in developing artificial intelligence technology should benefit all ...
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Ai4 2026 to Unite the World’s Most Influential AI Leaders

Note: AI leaders such as Geoffrey Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, Andrew Ng, Sebastian Thrun, Pat Gelsinger, Tim O’Reilly, among more than 1,000 AI leaders, will headline ...
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At least one million women and girls lose access to critical support as aid cuts dismantle women’s organizations working in humanitarian crises 

A new UN Women report finds that 84 per cent of women’s organizations report that demand for their services has increased since January 2025, while ...
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