The United Nations has warned the Security Council that armed groups in Haiti are adapting to intensified security operations, stepping up reprisals against civilians and extending their reach into rural areas, as presidential and legislative elections planned for December have been postponed indefinitely.
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Israeli attacks over the weekend killed at least six Palestinians in Gaza, including children, despite a year-old ceasefire agreement, while settler violence in the occupied West Bank has left five dead and over 240 injured in the past two weeks, according to UN reports. Independent human rights experts have called on Israel to protect Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest and to halt what they describe as a rapidly expanding policy of annexation.
Russian air and drone strikes across nine Ukrainian regions killed at least eight people, wounded 60 others and cut power to more than one million people on Friday, Ukrainian officials said, as the United Nations reported a steep climb in civilian casualties last month.