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1. Yemen aid response buckling under funding cuts as needs keep rising

   Yemen’s already fragile humanitarian response is being pushed to breaking point by deep funding shortfalls, the UN warned in an update Sunday highlighting mounting risks for millions across the country. 

2. ‘Do not give up on children’: Displaced by violence, a Haitian girl finds hope at school

   A teenage Haitian girl who was forced to flee her home in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, due to gang violence has urged adults not to “give up on children.”  

3. US actions in Venezuela ‘constitute a dangerous precedent’: Guterres

   The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has said he is “deeply alarmed” over the standoff between the United States and Venezuela in recent months, which culminated on Saturday morning in the capture of President Nicolás Maduro by US special forces.

4. Security Council: New faces, old tensions as five nations take their seats

   From deploying peacekeepers to conducting quiet – but at times heated – diplomacy, the UN Security Council sits at the heart of global decision-making on war and peace. As of January, five new countries will have a seat around the iconic horseshoe table.

5. A woman dies from cervical cancer every two minutes, UN says

   A flood of questions drowned Jeanette in thought after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. Would she be unable to conceive a child? Would she have to enter menopause at the early age of 31?