Pandemic intensifies malnutrition in Asia as UN warns almost two billion cannot afford healthy diet
Loss of livelihoods and climbing food prices have put nutritious food beyond the reach of many
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Eurovision received more media coverage than the most under-reported humanitarian crises combined
New report ranks the world’s worst crises according to how little news coverage they got
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Eritrea’s brutal shadow war in Ethiopia laid bare
New video backs extensive Telegraph reports pointing towards egregious abuses, including massacres and pillaging
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Meet the scientists tackling vaccine misinformation on TikTok
Sixty seconds to explain all the ingredients in a coronavirus vaccine? You’re on
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'Mystery illness' in India is neurotoxic poisoning, initial reports say
Traces of heavy metal such as lead and nickel found in blood of victims of mass poisoning
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No masks or social distancing: Afghanistan battles second wave of Covid with few tools
High levels of smog, poverty and hunger are exacerbating a resurgence of coronavirus
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Fears grow over respiratory health as smog season descends on India and Pakistan – while Covid rages
High levels of air pollution bring an added worry to the region – it comes in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic
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Pollution, climate change and junk adverts putting ‘every child’s health at risk’
Report highlights that while healthcare has improved for children over the past 20 years, ‘progress has stalled, and is set to reverse’
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Abuse of detainees in Saudi camps continues despite international outcry, report shows
One migrant told researchers that he had seen three detainees killed by guards
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Millions more pushed into food insecurity in Democratic Republic of Congo, now world's biggest food crisis
The pandemic, conflict and other health crises have hit livelihoods and food security dramatically, a UN report warns
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Namibia to sell 200 wild elephants in face of drought and threat to humans
Shrinking pastures and dried up water sources mean the beasts are moving closer to human populations
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Yemen on the 'brink of famine' as five million people face extreme hunger, UN warns
UK government urges other countries to step up to avert a crisis as it pledges £14m in aid
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Number of heat-related deaths in elderly double over 20 years as climate change hits health
No country is immune to the impact of climate change on health, a report in The Lancet warns
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UK aid cut 'regrettable' while world's poorest facing 'worst hour', says UN humanitarian chief
Decades of human progress are at risk unless the world steps up, said the UN's Mark Lowcock
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Covid vaccine boosts China's 'soft power' around the world
'Vaccine diplomacy' sees developing countries host clinical trials in return for jabs when they are available
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International aid to Afghanistan set to fall by a fifth in the next four years
A fall in funding had been widely predicted as donors battle their own economic crises caused by the pandemic
