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1. World News in Brief: Children hit by HIV funding gaps, risks to Pakistan’s courts, minority exclusion

   Children and adolescents living with HIV continue to be left behind in access to early diagnosis, life-saving treatment and care, as shrinking funding threatens to reverse decades of progress, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Friday, ahead of World AIDS Day.

2. UN warns Myanmar’s planned elections will deepen repression and instability

   Myanmar’s planned late-December elections are unfolding in what UN rights officials describe as an atmosphere of fear, violence and deep political repression, with thousands detained and major parties excluded in a process that risks entrenching instability rather than restoring democracy.

3. Global measles cases surge as 30 million children miss vaccines, UN health agency warns

   Measles deaths have dropped by 88 per cent since 2000 – yet an estimated 95,000 people, mostly children, still died from the virus last year, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Friday.  

4. UN rights office condemns ‘apparent summary execution’ of two men in the West Bank

   The UN human rights office, OHCHR said on Friday that it was “appalled” by the “brazen killing” of two Palestinian men by Israeli border police in the West Bank, describing it as “an apparent summary execution.” 

5. UN chief condemns Guinea-Bissau coup, urges restoration of constitutional order

   The United Nations has strongly condemned the military coup in Guinea-Bissau, warning that the overthrow of elected authorities just days after national elections represents a grave violation of constitutional order and democratic principles.