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A woman in black sifts flour into a blue bowl outside a grey family tent while three children sit and stand near the entrance

Gaza Death Toll Reaches 74,475 as the UN Cuts Food Aid by a Third

Gaza's Health Ministry reported 74,475 killed and 175,517 wounded in Israel's genocide on Sunday, and 67 of the 98 added in a week were deaths verified late. By TEH's arithmetic the count

October 19, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu speaks from a podium in the plenary hall at FAO headquarters in Rome during World Food Day 2026

Pope Tells FAO to Stop Settling for Declarations as Food Prices Climb

Pope Leo XIV used a message read at FAO's World Food Day ceremony to ask the agency for "moral audacity," on a day its own price index stood 5.8 percent above a

October 16, 2026

Business·News

Two young children sit outdoors in Afghanistan eating biscuits, with a WFP-branded package on a girl's lap

Record Hunger in Afghanistan as UN Reports Women Stopped at Clinics

The IPC says acute hunger and malnutrition in Afghanistan are the highest ever recorded, with 19.2 million projected at crisis level or worse this winter. UNAMA's update, published the same day, documents

October 15, 2026

Government and Politics·News

A man, a woman and a small boy sit outside a crowded shelter building at a camp for displaced people in Mekelle, Tigray

Ethiopia and Eritrea Each Tell the UN the Other Started the War

Ethiopia told the Security Council that Eritrean troops pushed up to 60 kilometers into Tigray, and Eritrea answered that Ethiopia has declared war on it. Neither account has been independently verified, and

October 14, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Two boys crouch among scattered school supplies on grey flood sediment in Nuwakot, Nepal

Nepal’s Budhigandaki Mudflow: 508 Rescued, Six Missing, No Death Toll Given

A 20 to 25 meter surge of mud swept a hydropower camp in Nepal's Gorkha district on Sunday. Nepal's disaster authority counts 508 rescued and six missing, but its report gives no

October 14, 2026

Climate·News

A woman in a black headscarf shapes dough beside a clay oven while two children watch

Amnesty: Riyadh Airport Attack Killed 13; Civilians on Both Sides at Risk

Amnesty International says the Houthi attack on Riyadh's airport killed 13, one more than Saudi authorities reported, and warns that civilians on both sides of the border are paying for the escalation.

October 14, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

A woman in a blue headscarf and black face mask stands inside a crowded shelter for displaced people

Darfur Child Malnutrition Passes Famine Threshold; No Famine Declared

A survey of two camps for displaced people in Eastern Jebel Marra found acute malnutrition in 38 and 30.8 per cent of children, above the famine threshold, according to a new IPC

October 14, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

A wrecked wooden boat lies on a beach under a stormy sky after a migrant shipwreck off Djibouti

Djibouti Takes In Yemen’s Refugees as a Migrant Boat Sinks the Other Way

Djibouti took in about 4,000 Yemeni refugees in a week as the Houthi advance reached Mokha, and a migrant boat bound for Yemen sank off its coast with 139 dead and 84

October 14, 2026

Government and Politics·News

People collect food from a WFP emergency distribution centre in Lahj, Yemen, a man carrying a sack of milled rice

Yemen’s Taiz Is Running Out of Flour as WFP Warns of Catastrophe

The World Food Programme says fighting has cut off life-saving aid to about 800,000 people in Yemen, including more than 600,000 in Taiz, where wheat flour stocks are nearly gone. Thirty-seven of

October 14, 2026

Conflicts, Military and War·News

The Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the United Arab Emirates seen from the International Space Station

UN Fertiliser Plan for Hormuz Is Ready in 10 Days, If Iran and US Agree

The UN says it can start moving fertiliser through the Strait of Hormuz within seven to 10 days of a yes from Iran and the United States. Its envoy wants that answer

October 14, 2026

Economy·News

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Gaza Death Toll Reaches 74,475 as the UN Cuts Food Aid by a Third

Pope Tells FAO to Stop Settling for Declarations as Food Prices Climb

Record Hunger in Afghanistan as UN Reports Women Stopped at Clinics

Ethiopia and Eritrea Each Tell the UN the Other Started the War

Nepal’s Budhigandaki Mudflow: 508 Rescued, Six Missing, No Death Toll Given

Amnesty: Riyadh Airport Attack Killed 13; Civilians on Both Sides at Risk

Darfur Child Malnutrition Passes Famine Threshold; No Famine Declared

Djibouti Takes In Yemen’s Refugees as a Migrant Boat Sinks the Other Way

Yemen’s Taiz Is Running Out of Flour as WFP Warns of Catastrophe

UN Fertiliser Plan for Hormuz Is Ready in 10 Days, If Iran and US Agree

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