Tom Fletcher

The UN Human Rights Office verified 55 civilian casualties in 19 incidents as of Wednesday in the governorates of Taiz, Al Hodeidah, Marib and Lahj since early in the month

Fletcher spoke to The Associated Press in an interview after a visit to the southern city of Kherson, where he witnessed how communities there are coping while living under the constant threat of Russian drones

At least 36 humanitarian workers and contractors have been killed in South Sudan since January, surpassing last year's total of 31

The case fatality rate stands at 47.0 percent, while 1,040 people have recovered

Buta health zone in Bas-Uele was newly affected

Victims of the powerful twin earthquakes that jolted Venezuela last month as well as people spared by the destruction on Thursday flooded relief services offered by nongovernmental organizations in the hardest-hit areas

He urged donors to “fast-track the disbursement of those resources” as the virus continues to spread and enters new provinces, including one case in Kisangani with no known epidemiological link to the existing outbreak

Victims of the powerful twin earthquakes that jolted Venezuela last month as well as people spared by the destruction on Thursday flooded relief services offered by nongovernmental organizations in the hardest-hit areas

Government reports 3,685 dead and 16,740 injured after June 24 quakes

Rescuers search for victims at a collapsed building as one raises a Venezuelan flag following powerful earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 28, 2026 in Caraballeda, La Guaira, Venezuela

More than 1,600 foreign rescuers are helping search for quake survivors

Northwestern Venezuela was hit by two earthquakes, measuring 7.2 and 7.5 in magnitude, just minutes apart

The rapid mobilization Thursday comes after back-to-back magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes rocked northern Venezuela roughly 120 miles west of Caracas Wednesday night

The phenomenally successful show, which won seven prizes at the Olivier awards, will begin performances on 30 March at the Al Hirschfeld theatre in New York, currently home to Moulin Rouge!

But the amount announced on Thursday remains far short of past US commitments to humanitarian aid, which totalled as high as $17bn in fiscal year 2022

Climate change and conflict are driving severe food insecurity across the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, while cuts to foreign aid are impacting the ability of UN agencies to respond

The change Patriota could detect in “the global north” was a new division into “two poles, a unilateralist superpower on the one hand and a majority of multilateralists on the other”

Some 266 million people in 47 territories were in a state of food crisis or worse last year, with experts warning that ongoing conflicts, climate variability and global economic uncertainty risk worsening the situation in 2026

Despite disparaging Starmer repeatedly in recent weeks over his stance on the Iran war, President Trump weighed in to offer some much needed — if slightly tepid — support on Monday evening

Fletcher, the undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator and head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, is wrestling with a humanitarian aid funding crisis he described as cataclysmic, amounting to a 50% cut in his budget

Sacked Foreign Office head Sir Olly Robbins to face MPs over Mandelson vetting scandal

Abdel-Fattah Burhan shortly after the war entered its fourth year

Sudan’s war has entered its fourth year, but there is little indication the conflict will end any time soon, as the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are locked in battle for control of the North African nation

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announced another $120 million in humanitarian and development aid for Sudan on Wednesday as the African nation’s civil war enters its fourth year

The meeting is set to take place five days after Péter Magyar ended Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule in Sunday’s Hungarian election, and weeks before his new government is expected to take office

Cooper will unveil a doubling of UK aid to £15m for Sudanese frontline responders such as the grassroots volunteer network known as Emergency Response Rooms

Three years into the fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, millions are displaced and famine continues

Sunday night's Olivier Awards were all about Paddington, Rosamund Pike's celebratory return to the West End and Rachel Zegler's love letter to theatre

A worker in a neon yellow reflective vest is seen from behind as they walk across a tarmac, surrounded on either side by large plastic-wrapped bundles of humanitarian aid supplies

A worker in a neon yellow reflective vest is seen from behind as they walk across a tarmac, surrounded on either side by large plastic-wrapped bundles of humanitarian aid supplies

A worker in a neon yellow reflective vest is seen from behind as they walk across a tarmac, surrounded on either side by large plastic-wrapped bundles of humanitarian aid supplies

The authorities urged the public not to circulate rumours and to obtain information only from official sources

A worker in a neon yellow reflective vest is seen from behind as they walk across a tarmac, surrounded on either side by large plastic-wrapped bundles of humanitarian aid supplies

In the sun-scorched waters of the Persian Gulf, a tiny speck of coral and limestone — just eight square miles in size — is the most dangerous piece of real estate on Earth right now

The comments made by Tom Fletcher, ‌the U.N. under-secretary-general for ​humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, comes as Iran threatens to close the strait, which is considered a key trade route

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, which has expanded to ​Lebanon and dragged in Gulf countries, has convulsed global markets ⁠and disrupted supply chains, with airspace closures and the halt of shipping ​through the critical Strait of Hormuz

Some residents of Lebanon, Gaza and Iran are reporting shortages of food, rising food prices and other disruptions to food supplies as the conflict in the Middle East continues