UN says every child under five in Gaza at risk of malnourishment
The warning comes as the Gaza Strip’s Health Ministry registers more cases of paralysis due to malnutrition caused by Israeli blockade.
The United Nations has warned that all children of Gaza under the age of five are at risk of life-threatening malnourishment, amid growing reports of starvation-related deaths as Israel continues to block aid from entering the besieged Gaza Strip.
The UN’s World Food Programme said children in this age bracket – around 320,000 in number – have been affected by the collapse of nutrition services and are lacking access to safe water, breast milk substitutes and therapeutic feeding.
World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns
Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet
Sun 3 Aug 2025 23.30 BST
Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages.
The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060. While plastic has many important uses, the most rapid increase has been in the production of single-use plastics, such as drinks bottles and fast-food containers.
Thailand and Cambodia hold high-stakes border talks in Malaysia amid fragile ceasefire
Four days talks to conclude with final meeting of defence ministers on Thursday
Monday 04 August 2025 13:35 BST
Top defence officials of Thailand and Cambodia began talks in Malaysia on Monday to hold the ceasefire on the border, a week after the worst fighting broke out between the two Southeast Asian countries in decades.
The meeting of the General Border Committee, a bilateral mechanism established between two neighbours to resolve border issues, will continue for four days, concluding with the meeting of the defence ministers of the two countries on Thursday. The defence ministers' meeting will be joined by observers from Malaysia, the US and China.
Russia warns against 'nuclear rhetoric' amid Trump row
Jon Shelton with AFP, Reuters
The Kremlin has played down the significance of Trump repositioning US submarines in response to an inflammatory post by Dmitry Medvedev.
The Kremlin on Monday urged a tamping down of nuclear rhetoric after US President Donald Trump reacted to threats leveled by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on social media.
Medvedev took to social media last week, warning Trump of Russia's nuclear capabilities after the US president shortened a imposed deadline for Moscow to enter ceasefire negotiations with Ukraine or face serious consequences.
Lebanon president vows 'justice is coming' five years after Beirut port blast
On the fifth anniversary of the devastating Beirut port explosion, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun pledged that "justice is coming", renewing calls for accountability in a disaster that killed over 220 people and left thousands wounded. Monday has been declared a day of national mourning and rallies demanding justice are planned for later in the day.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Monday vowed that "justice is coming", five years after a catastrophic explosion at Beirut's port for which nobody has been held to account.
The blast on August 4, 2020 was one of the world's largest non-nuclear explosions, devastating swathes of the Lebanese capital, killing more than 220 people and injuring over 6,500.
‘They do not teach us what we need’: Inside the expansion of religious schools for girls across Afghanistan
Story by Isobel Yeung and Mick Krever | Video by Li-Lian Ahlskog Hou and
“I want” – the girl stops herself – “I wanted to be a doctor in the future. But when the Taliban came to Afghanistan, all the doors of schools were closed.”
Inside the Taliban-approved Naji-e-Bashra madrasa – a girls-only religious school on the outskirts of Kabul – a teenage girl wearing a full face covering speaks nervously. Her classmate grabs her arm beneath the table, aware that any criticism of the ruling Taliban government is ill-advised.
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