UN News Today

• Afghanistan: funding shortages close vital healthcare services - OCHA • Ukraine: UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Nikolaj Coster-Waldau urges support for energy infrastructure renewal • Global education fund seeks $600 million to help schools impacted by conflict

• Yemen: Aid out of reach as conflict intensifies – UNHCR • $50 million appeal to help nine million people endure winter months • Israel’s ‘yellow line’ in Gaza is a ‘kill zone’: OHCHR

• Haitians in grip of a deepening hunger crisis • Yemen: WHO reports essential medicines reach Taiz City hospitals • Afghanistan opium production jumps fivefold as farmers evade Taliban restrictions

• UNHCR alarm as Ethiopia violence forces thousands into Kenya • Yemen: Fighting drives displacement in Taiz amid worsening conditions, says OCHA • Global warming is an international emergency, insists WHO

• Record greenhouse gas concentrations raise climate alarm • Ebola vaccine trial raises “hope” in DR Congo • UNHCR urges continued support as Ukraine braces for winter

• Guterres warns against a new US-Iran escalation • Ebola frontline nurse killed in DR Congo • Ukraine probe insists Russia committed war crimes in attacks on civilians

• Yemen: deepening fears for people trapped in Taiz City: OCHA, UNICEF • Don’t forget Sudan’s El Fasher survivors, one year since city fell: UN Women • DR Congo Ebola outbreak reaches ever more remote areas: WHO

• Ebola contact tracing ongoing in Nigeria • Ukraine capital targeted in more Russian strikes • Unlawful deaths of older people ‘alarmingly under-reported’

• El Niño ‘wrecking ball’ need not be a humanitarian disaster • Global warming will breach 1.5℃ – but deep, fast cuts can still bring it back • Sudan war: Peace efforts resume to end ‘drone war’ fuelling humanitarian crisis

• Yemen war closes in on densely populated Taiz City • Afghanistan: worsening hunger outlook for millions • 8 in 10 deaths caused by preventable diseases

• Protecting earth’s biodiversity in spotlight at COP17 in Armenia • Gaza: Funding cuts leave half a million without food assistance • Lebanon: UNIFIL peacekeepers continue supporting most vulnerable

• More than one million species face extinction, warns UN chief at COP17 • Gaza: 340 children killed despite so-called ceasefire, says UNICEF • Yemen war has now displaced more than 230,000 people: IOM

• Second case of Ebola confirmed in Kenya amid ongoing transmission in DR Congo • UN health agency urges global push to end lead exposure which kills 3.5 million annually • Ukraine: Critical health supplies destroyed in ongoing Russian attacks: WHO

• Ukrainians targeted in another night of deadly Russian attacks: OCHA • AI tool unveiled to help health workers tackle taboos over drinking: WHO • Ethiopia: Aid access improves in north, but looting, displacement continue: OCHA

• $228 billion damage to homes from tsunamis, flooding and tremors: UNDRR • Gazan farmers confronting danger to grow crops in war-torn enclave: FAO • WHO supports call for mental health care in the community

• New devastating flooding disaster hits Nepal – UNICEF • ‘Efficiency has limits’: UNHCR chief warns refugee protection is buckling under cuts • Bridge Valdés Press freedom winner highlights bias against victims of sexual violence

• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay • Nepal flooding disaster could happen again without international support -UNICEF • Gaza: Almost all women and girls are displaced, most live in tents or ruins- UN Women

• Myanmar’s spiral into poverty: UNDP • On World Sight Day, cheap reading glasses still out of reach: WHO • 235,000 Gazans living hundreds of flood-prone sites

• Two in three child migrants travel alone to Europe • Ebola alert: WHO chief voices solidarity with Kenya and Uganda after patient dies in Nairobi • Yemen health funding facing critical shortages warns WHO

• “Nothing can justify” 7 October attacks: Guterres • In Pakistan, UN chief calls for end to US-Iran war • Ebola robs children of the people they depend on: UNICEF