Defence`s Feeds

Statement by UNICEF Representative in Sudan Sheldon Yett

Statement by Ambassador Archie Young, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Haiti.

Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI 2026) report, released on Tuesday by five United Nations specialised agencies.

Global hunger declined for a third consecutive year in 2025, demonstrating that progress is possible. However, the improvements remain fragile, unevenly distributed and insufficient to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, according to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026(SOFI 2026) report, released on Tuesday by five United Nations specialized agencies.

Three consecutive years of progress in reducing global hunger demonstrate that hunger is not inevitable, the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), QU Dongyu, said Tuesday at the launch of the 2026 edition of The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report.

China supports the international community in helping Pacific Island countries achieve sustainable development. At the same time, all countries should prioritize the independent development of Pacific Island countries, keep relevant cooperation open and inclusive, and refrain from targeting any third party when developing relations with them, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said at a regular press conference on Tuesday.

Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rick Scott (R-FL) issued the below statement after Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said that the country will no longer hold elections.

Daniel Ortega's declaration that under his family's dictatorship Nicaragua will never again hold elections lays bare their true authoritarian nature.

Independent UN human rights experts on Tuesday condemned the M23 armed group's "reign of terror" over territory it controls in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), calling for an end to the Rwanda-backed group's sexual torture and violence against civilians.

On Monday, July 20, around 6:50 PM, the radar surveillance system of the Ministry of National Defence detected a group of aerial targets approximately 23 kilometers northwest of the town of Vâlcove, as part of a drone attack on the civilian and infrastructure targets in Ukraine, near the river border with Romania.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pushed out Ukraine's top general nearly a week after he sacked Mykhaylo Fedorov as defense minister, who had openly clashed with the general in a major fight over strategy in the war against Russia.

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The Russian forces has liberated the settlement of Volokhovskoye in the Kharkov region, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on Tuesday.

The deployment of EU and NATO military contingents to Ukraine is absolutely unacceptable for Russia and Moscow cannot allow this, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday.

Russian authorities have thwarted a terrorist plot in the Urals, where a Tyumen resident, acting on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence agencies, was preparing to carry out an explosion at a large industrial enterprise, the Russian Investigative Committee told Sputnik.

The war in Ukraine is having a deepening impact on civilians by the day. The scale and intensity of long-range attacks impacting residential buildings and critical civilian infrastructure are shocking. These attacks must stop.