UN rights chief says horrified by Sudan escalation as famine draws nearerWHO: antimicrobial resistance an increasingly worrying threatUkraine’s civilians facing daily drone and glider bomb attacks: IOM

Guterres repeats call to Israel to halt Rafah assault as aid stocks dwindle Global temperature record streak continues: WMOTürk welcomes 20-year jail sentence for Gambian ex-minister for crimes against humanity

Gaza: underweight babies, heavy fighting and more displacementSudan alert as civilians remain trapped in war zoneSaudi Arabia violated rights of religious scholar, UN rights experts warn

450,000 Gazans now uprooted from Rafah as Israeli bombardment continuesUkraine: UN rights office expresses deep concern over Russia’s eastern offensive Afghanistan flood disaster is not an anomaly, warns UN World Food Programme

Rafah exodus reaches 360,000 as UN issues $2.8 billion aid appeal for Gaza, West BankUkraine: aid teams warn as Russian offensive in Kharkiv heightens displacement fearsCountless lives at stake in Sudan’s El Fasher, warn UN aid teams

Gaza: As exodus from Rafah continues, ceasefire calls grow Myanmar spike in fighting fuels humanitarian emergency: OCHA  Belarus probe finds torture of detainees is systematic: rights experts

Gaza: 80,000 flee Rafah amid Israeli military escalation fears, say UN humanitarians Former Guantanamo Bay detainee faces re-victimisation in Algeria, right experts warn Early data on vaccine ‘patches’ is welcome news in battle against measles: WHO 

A vast array of weaponry has been used in the last seven months of conflict in Gaza, so much so that UN mine action experts say that land potentially contaminated with unexploded ordnance will take years to make safe.Patrick McCabe is a UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) veteran whose job is to help civilians move around Gaza as safely as possible, now and when the fighting ends.He spoke to UN News’s Daniel Johnson, about what he’d seen in the shattered enclave so far.

Gaza: No aid is coming through the south, confirms @UNRWA Unprecedented flooding displaces hundreds of thousands across east Africa: IOMNo respite in sight for Brazil suffering flood emergency: WMO

Uncertainty in Gaza amplified by closure of key border crossingsRussia: UN rights chief troubled by increasing crackdown on journalistsDRC: more than 80,000 newly displaced people amid new fighting in Kivu 

We won't abandon Gazans sheltering in Rafah, says UNRWASeven months into the war in Gaza, deep fears over unexploded ordnance threatUrgent appeal launched for Yemen where 18.2 million people need lifesaving assistance