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• More than one million species face extinction, warns UN chief at COP17 • Gaza: 340 children killed despite so-called ceasefire, says UNICEF • Yemen war has now displaced more than 230,000 people: IOM

• Second case of Ebola confirmed in Kenya amid ongoing transmission in DR Congo • UN health agency urges global push to end lead exposure which kills 3.5 million annually • Ukraine: Critical health supplies destroyed in ongoing Russian attacks: WHO

• Ukrainians targeted in another night of deadly Russian attacks: OCHA • AI tool unveiled to help health workers tackle taboos over drinking: WHO • Ethiopia: Aid access improves in north, but looting, displacement continue: OCHA

• $228 billion damage to homes from tsunamis, flooding and tremors: UNDRR • Gazan farmers confronting danger to grow crops in war-torn enclave: FAO • WHO supports call for mental health care in the community

• New devastating flooding disaster hits Nepal – UNICEF • ‘Efficiency has limits’: UNHCR chief warns refugee protection is buckling under cuts • Bridge Valdés Press freedom winner highlights bias against victims of sexual violence

• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay • Nepal flooding disaster could happen again without international support -UNICEF • Gaza: Almost all women and girls are displaced, most live in tents or ruins- UN Women

• Myanmar’s spiral into poverty: UNDP • On World Sight Day, cheap reading glasses still out of reach: WHO • 235,000 Gazans living hundreds of flood-prone sites

• Two in three child migrants travel alone to Europe • Ebola alert: WHO chief voices solidarity with Kenya and Uganda after patient dies in Nairobi • Yemen health funding facing critical shortages warns WHO

• “Nothing can justify” 7 October attacks: Guterres • In Pakistan, UN chief calls for end to US-Iran war • Ebola robs children of the people they depend on: UNICEF

• Sudan: Driver killed in aerial attack on clearly marked aid trucks in South Kordofan • 3.4 billion people across the globe lack adequate housing, which the UN calls a critical human right • UN urges better social protection schemes in Asia and the Pacific as extreme weather intensifies

• Haiti emergency: Extortion, gang violence and hunger prevail, warns UN rights chief – OHCHR • Ukraine war threatens even greater regional disaster and must end: Türk • Gaza: WHO appeals for massive aid influx before winter sets in

• Ebola transit centre set ablaze in DR Congo camp: OCHA • Ukraine winterization needs expected to intensify: WHO • Marshall Islands nuclear legacy in Human Rights Council spotlight: OHCHR

• UN refugee agency raises concern over Myanmar returns from Malaysia • Lebanon: one in five children goes to bed hungry, says UNICEF • New alcohol policy gives booze the boot in Latvia - WHO

• Worsening clashes in DR Congo hamper Ebola emergency response; WHO • Harsh reality of everyday life on Ukraine’s frontline: OCHA • Yemen escalation fuels fears of cholera, measles spread: WHO

• Worsening clashes in DR Congo hamper Ebola emergency response • Funding shortages threaten clean water access in Zaatari refugee camp UNICEF • Forest and landscape restoration vital to resist development shocks