Health
Gaza winter: families face a fourth winter in tents as aid convoys come under fire
Gaza winter: about 950,000 people live in sites at risk of flooding as families face a fourth winter in tents; UNOPS reports…
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Cuba embargo: UN General Assembly votes for the 34th time after heated US-Cuba row
Cuba embargo: the UN General Assembly votes on 28 October for the 34th time on ending the US embargo, after a row…
Political
IAEA Iran: Grossi tells Security Council the agency still cannot verify nuclear material
IAEA Iran: Rafael Grossi told the UN Security Council inspectors still cannot verify Iran's safeguarded nuclear material, including 440 kg of enriched…
Health
Ebola in Kenya: 20 contacts freed from quarantine as DR Congo starts vaccine trial
Ebola in Kenya: 20 contacts of the first Bundibugyo case left quarantine after 21 days and 98 remain; WHO says a vaccine…
Business
Domestic workers: four in five lack formal job protection worldwide, ILO report finds
Domestic workers: about 66.5 million, more than four in five worldwide, were informally employed in 2025 and earned 53.3% of other employees'…
Business
NASA USDA agreement: space agency data to help track crops, yields and drought in the US
NASA USDA agreement: Jared Isaacman and Brooke Rollins signed an MoU on 24 October to use Earth observation data for crop, yield…
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Ukraine war crimes: UN inquiry says Russian strikes on power plants targeted civilians
Ukraine war crimes: the UN Commission of Inquiry found Russian attacks on energy sites in winter were war crimes and crimes against…
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Mars dust: NASA Perseverance finds ultrafine particles that could reach astronauts’ lungs
Mars dust: NASA's Perseverance measured fine and ultrafine particles on spacesuit samples over 1,645 Martian days, in a study published in PNAS…
Health
Ebola in DR Congo: UN and WHO condemn killing of a nurse responding to an alert in Tshopo
Ebola in DR Congo: protesters killed a nurse answering an alert in Tshopo; UN and WHO chiefs condemned it as cases passed…
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Fall foliage from space: NASA PACE satellite maps where leaves turn red across the globe
Fall foliage: NASA's PACE satellite mapped leaf redness worldwide from 29 September to 11 October, showing reds moving south from Alaska, Canada…
Political
Women and girls in conflict: share of civilian war deaths doubles since 2021, UN report says
Women and girls in conflict: a UN report says they were one in four of 37,000+ civilians killed last year, double the…
Political
Guterres in Egypt warns Iran-US sabre-rattling could push the region out of control
Guterres in Egypt urged maximum restraint in the Iran-US war, called for free passage at Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb and praised Cairo's…