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Middle East war risks pushing 45 million more people into acute hunger “The Secretary-General asserts once more that the war in the Middle...

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Afghanistan: UN condemns deadly attack on rehab centre in Kabul 17 March 2026 Peace and Security Top UN officials condemned on Tuesday Pakistan’s...

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World News in Brief: West Bank displacement, Cuba fuel crisis, Sexual abuse safeguards, New ‘humancentric’ AI Advocate According to the UN human rights...

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Deepfakes, voice cloning and weaponised AI: Global wake-up call to organised fraud “The scammer was extraordinarily believable,” Kim Sawyer, a former university professor...

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