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Deadly floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Yagi have affected nearly 6 million children across southeast Asia, the U.N. said on Wednesday, as the death toll from the disaster rose.

Typhoon Yagi brought powerful winds and torrential rainfall to Vietnam, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar when it swept across the region almost two weeks ago.

A United Nations investigation has confirmed that an Israeli tank was responsible for the death of Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon last year. The investigation found that the tank fired two 120 mm projectiles at a group of journalists who were clearly identifiable, a blatant violation of international law.

World Health Organization staff visited Monday a Gaza hospital receiving casualties from deadly strikes on a refugee camp, hearing distressing stories of entire families killed and seeing dying children.

The letter contained evidence that Ukraine shelled the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant on August 29.
"We sent a letter to the members of the UN Security Council with information from the Russian Ministry of Defense about the Ukrainian shelling of Zaporizhzhya on August 29," the letter states, as TASS reports.

European Union countries have agreed to impose a limited package of sanctions on Russia after Moscow recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Scholz, Macron and Biden expressed solidarity with Ukraine and praised the restrained reaction of Ukraine so far under President Zelensky.

Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko meets Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on Friday in a critical display of Moscow's support for Lukashenko's regime, a day after the UN civil aviation agency announced it would investigate Sunday's diversion of a Ryanair plane and the arrest of a journalist on board.

The non-governmental organization "Proactiva Open Arms" announced that it received those shocking photos from eyewitnesses, not wanting to reveal their identity, noting that the photos show people who tried to reach the EU via a deadly route, across the Mediterranean.

The iconic tapestry of Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" is gone from its place of honor outside the U.N. Security Council in the United Nations headquarters complex overlooking New York's East River.

The painting "Guernica," considered one of Picasso's masterpieces and by many art critics as perhaps the most powerful anti-war painting in history, hangs in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.

The World Health Organization gave emergency use approval to AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines on Feb. 15, meaning distribution can start to poorer countries starved of doses to fight the pandemic.

Turkey places itself as a protector of the least developed countries in international platforms, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Dec. 28, recalling that the country has been active in several platforms of the United Nations as part of this approach.