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Thousands of Christians have been killed in Nigeria. Why the death tolls differ.
Open Doors counted 3,490 Christians killed in Nigeria from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2025 in cases it linked to Christian identity.
UNHCR report: three in four refugees live in countries highly exposed to climate hazards
UN News reported that UNHCR published the report, titled No Escape III, on Friday, ahead of the COP31 climate change conference opening next week in Antalya, Türkiye.
Aid teams in Sudan appeal for more help as supplies are running out
Mohamed Refaat of IOM said the trucks that reached Darfur the day before the 6 November 2026 report were the last in the agency's stocks.
At least 30 civilians killed in Beni Territory; Ebola response disrupted
A health center was destroyed, and several patients inside were killed.
Pump prices were very uneven after war shut the Strait of Hormuz
UN News reported the findings on 4 November 2026. UNCTAD says the war that shut the Strait of Hormuz in February pushed oil prices up everywhere, but the cost at the pump has been very uneven.
WHO report: one in four adolescents reported no active days in a week, with activity unchanged since 2010
The figure amounts to some 240 million young people aged 11 to 17 who said they did not complete 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on a single day.
Many children born in Syria since 2011 have no legal identity because nationality passes through fathers
That is what a member of the independent UN commission investigating rights violations in the country said on Wednesday, according to UN News.
Fuel prices rose far more in Nigeria and Myanmar than in Ireland and Sweden after Hormuz closure
A new report from UNCTAD, the UN trade and development agency, says developing economies are paying the heaviest price at the pump, according to UN News, which reported on the findings on 4 November 2026.
Gunfire hit tents at displacement site in northern Rafah
It reportedly caused injuries and forced a humanitarian partner to leave the area, the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) said, according to UN News.
UN peacekeeping chief warned of security vacuum as Blue Helmets leave Lebanon
Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, spoke to journalists at UN Headquarters in New York.
UNICEF said Ukraine has sustained almost 2,000 attacks on education since 2022
The statement came a day after a strike on a school that was being used to distribute aid.
Haitian gang leader asks UN to mediate as El Salvador sends troops to find missing soldiers
Cité Soleil in downtown Port-au-Prince is one of the most dangerous places in the Haitian capital.
Yemen girl married to elderly man as Taiz maternal hospital could shut
Her mother died earlier this year, and she has no siblings.
Myanmar school airstrike kills three children as new strikes hit Rakhine state
The educational center, in Loikaw Township in Kayah state, was sheltering families displaced by the civil war that followed Myanmar's 2021 coup when it was hit.
Global impunity for journalist killings rises for the first time in more than a decade
The accountability gap is tracked as a share of killings that never bring a conviction, a series UNESCO first began measuring in 2012, and that rate reached 86 percent in 2024-2025
WHO chief calls for civilian protection after northern Ethiopia drone strikes
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, writing on social media and reported by UN News, said children, including a newborn, were among the fatalities there.
WFP provides emergency food aid to more than 400 Oleshky evacuees after a Kherson ceasefire
In its late-Sunday account, carried by UN News on 2 November 2026, WFP gave a 2026 estimate of more than 400 people in that evacuated group as the caseload now receiving the aid.
UN mission in Western Sahara winds down after Security Council deadlock
Peacekeepers have served with the mission since it was established in 1991. In a statement delivered by his Spokesperson and reported by UN News
Countries agree Yerevan Pathway to accelerate biodiversity action toward 2030
The instrument that closed the session is the Yerevan Pathway, formalized as the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP17) ended in the Armenian capital on Saturday
UN political mission in Somalia ends after three decades
Raisedon Zenenga, the UN Secretary-General’s Deputy Special Representative for Somalia and Officer-in-Charge of UNTMIS
Samarkand’s Silk Road university renews its partnership with UN Tourism
Professor Muhsinjon Kholmukhamedov, the university’s rector, told UN News that for centuries Samarkand was a crossroads not only for trade, but for ideas, crafts and cultures
Poland's Constitutional Tribunal in crisis as rival leaders dispute authority
The fight is over who may direct the Constitutional Tribunal, and over whether judges sworn on 9 April without President Karol Nawrocki are serving. No court has decided whether the orders of 30 October took effect.
More than 300,000 remain displaced in Lebanon
UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists on Friday, in remarks carried by UN News
IPC forecast points to rising Congo food insecurity
The DRC continues to confront a severe food security crisis due to persistent conflict in the east, widespread displacement, an expanding Ebola outbreak
OHCHR documented westward expansion in Gaza
In the 30 October 2026 account, the stated Israeli aim reported by OHCHR is military deployment across 70 percent of Gaza's territory.
UN expert finds intentional harm to Myanmar civilians
In a new report covered by UN News, she set out a measurement of at least 8,384 civilians killed by the military from the coup through 15 September 2026, the cutoff date for that count.
UNICEF says five children were killed in Nyala
Etleva Kadilli, UNICEF regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa, said on 29 October 2026 that the children reported killed were three boys and two girls, ages 7 to 14.
Greenhouse gases climbed to new highs in 2025, locking in centuries of warming, UN agency says
The statement is an accounting of gases already in the air, not a forecast of how much higher concentrations might still climb.
Kenya releases 20 Ebola contacts from quarantine as monitoring period ends
That period is the standard window authorities use to clear anyone exposed to a confirmed patient before lifting restrictions.
UN says more than 250,000 have fled fighting in Yemen
UN News cited particular concern for people sheltering in Taiz and the wider governorate, where access is essentially blocked.
Hamburg hears the Nord Stream sabotage charge
The court has not found that he committed those acts.
UK urges an energy ceasefire for Ukraine
Days earlier, President Trump said Russia and Ukraine had agreed an energy ceasefire that was effective immediately, and the BBC reported that Moscow had not confirmed it.