Some 65,000 households in the Gaza Strip were affected by the severe winter storms that whipped through the enclave last month, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs …
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Thirteen more lives lost in Sudan as 1,000th day of war looms
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauThirteen more lives – including children – were reportedly lost on Tuesday in another drone attack on Sudan’s North Kordofan region. UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the latest fatalities come …
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Venezuela crisis: UN aid effort continues amid political upheaval
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauVenezuela’s political shock has sharpened global attention on a country already facing one of the world’s largest humanitarian and displacement crises. For the United Nations, the priority remains unchanged: protecting …
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Education & Innovation
Good Practices in Cyber Risk Regulation and Supervision
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauThe paper synthesizes global experiences and key lessons in the regulation and supervision of cyber risk in the financial sector. It draws on the IMF’s financial stability surveillance and technical …
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Education & Innovation
Scientists Identify ‘Astronomy’s Platypus’ with NASA’s Webb Telescope
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauAfter combing through NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s archive of sweeping extragalactic cosmic fields, a small team of astronomers at the University of Missouri says they have identified a sample …
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NASA Hubble Helps Detect ‘Wake’ of Betelgeuse’s Elusive Companion Star
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauUsing new observations from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based observatories, astronomers tracked the influence of a recently discovered companion star, Siwarha, on the gas around Betelgeuse. The research, from scientists at …
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Life Science Fills Day as Expedition 74 Nears Thursday Spacewalk
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauExercise research and biomedical science promoting healthy humans on and off Earth topped the schedule aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday. Meanwhile, two NASA astronauts are preparing for the year’s first …
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Gaza: 100 per cent of basic food needs met for first time since 2023
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauFor the first time since 2023, humanitarian assistance will provide Gazans with enough food to fulfil minimum nutritional needs. “The January round is the first since October 2023, in which …
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Education & Innovation
NASA’s IXPE Measures White Dwarf Star for First Time
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauFor the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarization Explorer) to study a white dwarf star. Using IXPE’s unique X-ray polarization capability, astronomers examined a star called …
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NASA-French SWOT Satellite Provides Global Estimate of River Discharge
by NNW Bureauby NNW BureauScience teams at NASA and the French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales) have released the first-ever global estimate of river discharge and suspended sediment, as observed from space, …