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UNICEF says nearly 23,100 people remain in temporary camps across Venezuela’s north-central coast and Capital District, while its response targets 470,000 people, including 169,000 children.
Months of fighting between Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed nearly 500 Afghan civilians, the United Nations said, as a sharp escalation since February deepens humanitarian and regional-security risks.
Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed an agreement on August 7 stating that an attack on one country would be treated as an attack on all three, as Gulf security tensions rise.
A Reuters visual investigation documents damage at multiple Iranian monuments and culturally significant sites after a five-week U.S.-Israeli air campaign.
NATO leaders reaffirmed the alliance’s collective-defense posture in Ankara and reported a €70 billion military aid pledge for Ukraine in 2026.
South Africa is pushing for continent-wide talks on irregular migration after anti-immigration protests at home and a deadly crossing from Morocco toward Spain’s Ceuta.
ASEAN foreign ministers said progress had been made toward a long-delayed South China Sea Code of Conduct and set an end-2026 target for completing it, amid a new maritime confrontation and joint exercises involving the United States, Japan and the Philippines.
A Pristina court has issued an arrest warrant for Kosovo Serb political figure Milan Radoičić and 19 others over alleged crimes against civilians during the 1998–99 Kosovo war.
After renewed strikes and counterstrikes involving Iran and the United States, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for an immediate halt to attacks, maximum restraint and restored freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
A United Nations fact-finding probe said Rapid Support Forces fighters and allied groups carried out mass killings, abductions, sexual violence and starvation during the siege and capture of al-Fashir in Sudan’s Darfur region.
China conducted military drills near disputed Scarborough Shoal on Aug. 1 as ASEAN officials said negotiations with Beijing on a South China Sea code of conduct had made significant progress and could conclude by the end of 2026.
Iran said on Aug. 4 that it and Oman were in the final stage of drafting an agreement concerning the Strait of Hormuz, while violence continued across the region.
Russian missile and drone attacks killed four people, including a child, in Kyiv and the surrounding region on Aug. 8. Ukraine also struck another Russian oil refinery as its long-range campaign against energy and military targets continued.
UN agencies say expanding Israeli-controlled areas in Gaza are increasing civilian risks, limiting relief operations and worsening displacement, water and funding pressures.
The United Nations said July 9 that displaced families continued returning to conflict-affected areas of Lebanon, while shortages of water, electricity and fuel persisted in Nabatieh and other communities.
Uganda has approved sending troops to a proposed international force for Gaza, adding a new government commitment to a broader ceasefire and postwar framework whose implementation details remain unresolved.
NATO leaders endorsed a new strategy for cooperation with the defense industry and announced more than $40 billion in planned counter-drone investment over five years at the alliance’s July 7 summit in Ankara, Türkiye.
The Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme said on July 15 that acute food insecurity could worsen across 13 countries and territories through November 2026, calling for early humanitarian action.
South Africa is pressing for continent-wide talks on irregular migration after violent anti-immigration protests drove migrants to leave the country, but the African Union rejected Ghana’s proposal to place the tensions on its October 2026 agenda.
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea issued an order in the maritime-boundary dispute between Ghana and Togo in the Gulf of Guinea, but the available announcement does not state whether the action was procedural or final.
Iran and Oman have moved closer to an arrangement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but major disagreements remain over Iranian control, fees and the terms of any temporary framework.
Ukraine said on August 6 that its drones struck additional Russian oil facilities deep inside Russia, extending a campaign against energy infrastructure as the war’s attacks continue to reach both countries’ rear areas.
