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Seven days after two devastating earthquakes and more than 1,600 aftershocks hit south-east Türkiye and Syria – causing widespread destruction and taking the lives of thousands of people – UNICEF is warning that millions of children are in need of urgent humanitarian support.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday “the time is now to ratify both Finland and Sweden” as new members of the alliance.

Acts of armed violence against schools in Haiti, including shooting, ransacking, looting and kidnappings have increased nine-fold in one year, as rising insecurity and widespread unrest begin to cripple the country’s education system, UNICEF warned, on February 9.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to address the annual Munich Security Conference on Friday via video link.

Last year, the conference attendees implored Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine.

Communities in Aleppo, Syria, access clean water after the earthquake which struck the region.

The search for survivors following the earthquake is continuing in the Al-Aziziyeh neighborhood of Aleppo in Syria.

A Nigerien soldier guards a strategic location in Ouallam, Niger.

The Turkish Red Crescent has been involved in the relief effort in Gaziantep following the 7.8 magnitude earthquake.

T
he UN chief is calling for a global alliance of peace.

Iraq’s political class must urgently seize the current brief window of opportunity to break chronic cycles of instability, the UN Special Representative told the Security Council on Thursday.