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The UN General Assembly called for an end to the US embargo on Cuba for the 34th time, by 130 votes to 17 with 25 abstentions, its weakest backing in two decades, after a heated two-day debate.
UN agencies say more than 800,000 people in Taiz are cut off from aid after nearly three weeks of fighting that has closed roads into the city, as displacement in Yemen passes 268,000.
UN human rights monitors verified 328 civilians killed and 2,105 injured in Ukraine in September, 85% more than a year earlier, as attacks on energy infrastructure resumed ahead of winter.
A boat carrying 305 migrants from Djibouti toward Yemen capsized near Obock, leaving at least 139 dead and 84 missing in one of the deadliest shipwrecks recorded on the route, the UN migration agency said.
The International Criminal Court made public warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader, chief justice and two ministers, accusing them of persecuting women and girls in Afghanistan.
