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Daily Wrap 20 June 2025
Secretary-General António Guterres at the Security Council meeting on the Israel-Iran crisis.
'A fire no one can control': UN warns of spiralling Iran-Israel war

The world stands on the edge of catastrophe, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned on Friday, as Israel's military campaign inside Iran intensifies and strikes on nuclear facilities threaten to trigger a catastrophe.

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Peace and Security
Damage from Russian strikes on Kyiv (file, April)
Ukraine: Security Council hears of escalating attacks, diplomatic developments

The UN Security Council met on Friday to discuss the situation in Ukraine, where intensified fighting continues, affecting new areas and prompting further displacement. 

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Peace and Security
A Chinese police officer deployed to the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), talks to a young girl whilst on patrol.  The Mission completed its mandate in March 2018.
UN Peacebuilding Commission 'more needed than ever' amid rising conflict

Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and other senior officials from across the world have spoken about how international support was critical to putting their countries on the path to peace.

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Peace and Security
A patient in Tanzania receives antiretroviral medication to treat HIV.
WHO warns of a health financing emergency

The world is facing a health financing emergency, according to Dr. Kalipso Chalkidou, Director for Health Financing and Economics for the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Health
Over 700,000 people have been displaced by violence in Darfur, Sudan.
For too long, 'unbound horrors' have unfolded in Sudan

Hostilities continue to escalate across Sudan's North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous.

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Peace and Security
A Venezuelan refugee poses with his family in his new barbershop in Ecuador.
From Syria, UN refugee chief calls for greater solidarity with displaced people

Although record numbers of people – over 122 million worldwide – have been uprooted due to war, violence and persecution, their ability to find safety and support is threatened more than ever. 

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Migrants and Refugees
A 10-year-old girl is carried into the Al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat camp, Gaza.
Gaza horrors continue as the weakest succumb to injuries and disease

Death and suffering in Gaza are ever-present and the enclave's people now have little choice but to risk their lives to fetch aid supplies, UN agencies said on Friday. 

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Peace and Security
People plea for food at a communal kitchen in Gaza.
MIDDLE EAST CRISIS LIVE: 'Give peace a chance' UN chief urges Israel and Iran

One week since the Israel-Iran conflict erupted, diplomatic efforts to end the war are ramping up in Geneva as foreign ministers from France, Germany, the UK and the EU prepare to meet their Iranian counterpart. In New York, meanwhile, the UN Security Council heard the UN Secretary-General warn ambassadors that "we are on course to chaos" if the war widens "which could ignite a fire that no one can can control." UN News app users can follow here.

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Peace and Security
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