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As risks of conflict-induced famine and widespread food insecurity continue to rise, the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator urged the Security Council on Thursday to address the interlinked crises, and work towards establishing lasting peace in affected regions.

The Israeli army has killed 17-year-old Palestinian boy Odai Trad Salah during a raid near the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin.

After three writers had reportedly withdrawn from the New York event of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) over the presence of Shazia Ilmi, a national spokesperson for the BJP, a group of protesters disrupted the event on Wednesday.

Tennis legend Roger Federer said he will retire from competitive tennis following next week's Laver Cup in London.

As the number of weekly reported deaths from COVID-19 plunged to its lowest since March 2020, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the end of the pandemic is now in sight.

The official declaration of a cholera outbreak in the Aleppo region of Syria at the weekend, represents “a serious threat to people in Syria”, and the whole Middle East region, said the UN humanitarian relief coordinator for the country on Tuesday.

Jean-Luc Godard, the French-Swiss director who was a key figure in the Nouvelle Vague, the film-making movement that revolutionised cinema in the late 1950s and 60s, has died aged 91.

In 2021, 50 million people were living in modern slavery, according to the latest Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: 28 million were forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage.

Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz has won his first Grand Slam title, becoming the youngest male tennis player to secure the the world number one ranking.

A fundraising event featuring Hindutva figure Sadhvi Rithambara will no longer be held at the Old Paramus Reformed Church in United States’ New Jersey on Saturday, following an outcry and calls by Indian American groups to cancel the event.

Nearly 5,800 people have been killed in the conflict in Ukraine and the situation of prisoners of war in Russian-held areas is “worrying”, the head of the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in the country said on Friday.

BRETT WILKINS As millions of Britons and admirers the world over mourned Queen Elizabeth II's death Thursday, others—especially in nations formerly colonized by the British Empire—voiced reminders of the "horrendous cruelties" perpetrated against...