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23.03.2024 15:51 Haiti is in the grip of widespread gang violence, the country's institutions are on the verge of collapse and its citizens are facing a daily fight for survival. Yet, in the midst of this catastrophic security and humanitarian crisis, the UN continues to provide critical assistance to the beleaguered population.

23.03.2024 15:51 Gangs in Haiti have made advances in Port-au-Prince, worsening conditions in the capital as talks drag on to form a transition government in the troubled Caribbean nation.

23.03.2024 15:51 Amid a deepening security crisis, hunger has reached unprecedented levels in Haiti, a new assessment reveals. Nearly five million people - almost half of the country's population - is now facing acute food insecurity and struggling to feed themselves, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification analysis released today.

23.03.2024 15:51 A major upsurge in violence in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo that has seen at least 400,000 people displaced in North Kivu since the beginning of the year risks exposing children to further violence unless their protection can be reinforced.

23.03.2024 15:51 The Democratic Republic of the Congo's conflict-driven hunger crisis is worsening as violence in the eastern provinces surges, forcing families to flee again. While more and more people arrive in already overcrowded camps, the UN World Food Programme is struggling to feed those most in need, because humanitarian funding fails to keep pace.

23.03.2024 15:51 Serbs in Belgrade and close followers of their memorialization of the Balkan wars of the 1990s are responding coolly to word that Serbian officials are surprisingly advanced in talks for Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to redevelop one of the most recognizable symbols of Western military might targeting Serbs.

23.03.2024 15:51 Fadil Novalic, the former prime minister of the Bosniak-Croat federation, one of Bosnia's two entities, has started serving a four-year prison sentence for corruption in a case regarding the purchase and importing of Chinese ventilators during the coronavirus pandemic.

23.03.2024 15:51 The decision by Maduro and his representatives to detain two members of the leading opposition candidate's campaign and issue warrants for seven others represents a disturbing escalation of repression against Venezuela's opposition parties.

23.03.2024 15:51 Independent UN human rights experts on Friday expressed alarm over increased reports of sexual slavery and trafficking in Sudan, especially of women and girls.

23.03.2024 15:51 The Pacific Fleet's diesel-electric submarine Volkhov crew carried out the Kalibr cruise missile launch from the submerged position in accordance with the combat training plan in the Sea of Japan.

23.03.2024 15:51 Russia's military factories have begun churning out the FAB-3000 - a three-ton high-explosive aerial bomb with a 1,400 kg warhead. What will the development mean for the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine?

23.03.2024 15:51 The President held a briefing with permanent members of the Security Council via videoconference.

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23.03.2024 15:51 Several Western banks are actively opposing the EU's plans to appropriate billions of euros in interest accrued from frozen Russian assets, Reuters news agency has reported.

23.03.2024 15:51 UK and 40 other countries invoke the OSCE Vienna Mechanism in respect of serious human rights concerns including arbitrary detention and political repression as well as torture and mistreatment of prisoners.