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US and South Korean defense ministers Lloyd Austin and Kim Yong-hyun have urged North Korea to pull its troops out of Russia, with reports indicating that around 10,000 North Korean soldiers are stationed there for potential engagement against Ukrainian forces, according to AFP.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has urged the international community to take action to prevent humanity from "hitting its lowest point" in Gaza amid Israel's continued restrictions of the delivery of humanitarian aid to the enclave.

A senior official with Europe's top human rights watchdog has urged the government of ethnically divided Cyprus to allow passage to nearly three dozen asylum seekers out of a UN-controlled buffer zone where they have been stranded in tents for months.

NEW YORK - Serbian FM Marko Djuric told the UN Security Council on Wednesday human rights violations and unilateral moves by the regime of Pristina's PM Albin Kurti were creating a climate of fear and instability in the Autonomous Province of Kosovo-Metohija and that violence against Serbs in the province had escalated to an alarming level.

The United States has voiced concern about a "horrifying" Israeli strike in Gaza that killed a large number of children and said it was asking its ally for answers.

Climate change poses a growing threat to human health in a variety of record-breaking ways, a major report said on Wednesday, the experts warning that "wasted time has been paid in lives."

The new report was released as heatwaves, fires, hurricanes, droughts and floods have lashed the world during what is expected to surpass 2023 to become the hottest year on record.

Poorer nations are increasingly struggling to navigate the sluggish global economy, the UN has warned, calling for a fundamental rethinking of development strategies.

A report from the United Nations' trade and development agency UNCTAD highlighted how slow growth, soaring debt burdens, and weak investment and trade, were holding back developing countries.

Türkiye's permanent representative to the U.N. announced Tuesday that Türkiye, along with a coalition of key nations, has issued a joint letter calling for a halt to arms transfers to Israel.

An Israeli air strike on a single residential block killed nearly 100 people on Tuesday, Gaza's civil defense agency said, leaving rescuers scrambling for survivors as Israel pursued its offensives in Gaza and Lebanon.

Israel's key ally and backer the United States called the strike — which killed a large number of children — "horrifying".