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Lebanon: Solemn tributes to fallen peacekeeper
Gaza: $71.4 billion needed for recovery and reconstruction over next decade
Nearly 3 in 4 countries use AI to diagnose illness: WHO

Since the outbreak of the Middle East war on 28 February, sites of major cultural importance across Israel, Iran and Lebanon have come under threat.
At the request of the Lebanese Government, the UN education and cultural agency, UNESCO, has placed 39 World Heritage sites under so-called “enhanced protection”- a special status aimed at safeguarding cultural heritage during times of conflict.
To explain what this means in practice, UN News’s Nancy Sarkis spoke to Krista Pikkat, who leads UNESCO’s Culture and Emergencies Unit.

Lebanon: WHO highlights pressure on medical services as ceasefire begins
Gaza war’s terrible toll on women and girls
Record Rohingya death toll at sea highlights their desperation: UNHCR

Ukraine endures another night of Russian strikes: OCHA
Lebanon: Israeli strike kills four health workers - OHCHR
Epstein files: Rights experts stress States’ responsibility to act

Hundreds of Rohingya feared missing or drowned in new shipwreck
Iran: 3.2 million now displaced inside country: UNHCR
Caribbean on brink as war shock and drought fears collide, says WFP