'Unseen' News and Views
(UN News)* — Families in Gaza were holding on to the slim chance of finding loved ones buried under the ruins of destroyed homes – but that hope is fading fast.
(UN News)* — A Thai woman working in the United States has told UN News how she fell for a scam orchestrated by a criminal network in Asia – and lost $300,000.
Asia’s sprawling megacities – which are driving economic growth – face an uncertain future as rising temperatures, aging populations and unplanned urban development tests their resilience.
– Donald Trump’s top economic advisor claims the President has weaponised tariffs to ‘persuade’ other nations to pay the US to maintain its supposedly mutually beneficial global empire.
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Geopolitical economist Ben Norton was among the first to highlight the significance of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers chairman Stephen Miran’s briefing at the Hudson Institute.
The Institute is funded by financiers such as media czar Rupert Murdoch, who controls Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and other conservative media.
Miran made his case just after Trump’s electoral victory in A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System. Miran attempts to rationalise Trump’s economic policies, which are widely seen as at odds with conventional wisdom and reason.
(UN News)* — The United Nations on warned that escalating hostilities and access constraints in Gaza are exacerbating an already dire humanitarian crisis, displacing hundreds of thousands and depriving civilians of shelter, food and medicine.
The war in the Gaza Strip has taken an unconscionable toll on children. At least 15,600 have been reported killed, with thousands more injured. Nearly every child in Gaza knows what it is to be displaced: Their families have been torn apart, their homes destroyed.
UNDP Myanmar
New York/Yangon, 14 April 2025 – At least two and half million tonnes of debris, roughly 125,000 truckloads – must be removed in Myanmar.
The Afghans losing lifesaving aid
“The children are the breadwinners of the family, and we have no other source of income.”
18 April 2025 — In a makeshift settlement on the outskirts of Herat City, we meet 75-year-old Bibi Gul. Each day, her four grandchildren roam the streets in search of plastic to sell for recycling, to help the family survive.
They were forced to flee their home due to drought and conflict.
Now, with aid drying up, they’re left with nothing.
The protracted conflict and economic collapse in Yemen have created one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises, affecting over 18 million people.
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