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The United Nations has documented a record 907 aid workers killed, wounded or kidnapped in 2025, marking an alarming escalation in violence against humanitarian personnel. Gaza remains the deadliest region for the third consecutive year.
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake in western Colombia has killed 132 people and injured more than 570, according to government updates. Five major cities remain under red alert following the disaster.
Tropical Depressions Luis and Maymay, combined with the southwest monsoon, have killed 19 people and displaced over 2.2 million Filipinos across multiple regions, with nearly 100,000 sheltered in evacuation centres.
Gazans facing critical medical shortages and displacement express mounting despair as second-phase ceasefire negotiations stall. Thousands await treatment and the chance to return home.
Eight days following a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in southwestern Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture, over 8,000 evacuees remain sheltered as extreme temperatures and persistent water outages compound the humanitarian crisis.
Selangor's Menteri Besar has flagged a troubling trend where local communities are protecting undocumented Rohingya refugees, creating obstacles for law enforcement efforts to manage the irregular migrant population.
Israeli forces have injured Palestinians in an attack on a Bedouin community near East Jerusalem and seized property in the occupied West Bank, amid escalating tensions that have claimed multiple lives.
Flooding across India's northeastern Assam state has claimed 14 additional lives in the past day, pushing the death toll to 61 since the disaster began earlier this month. More than 1.1 million people across 2,000 villages remain affected.
Palestine's Education Minister Dr Amjad Barham has appealed to Malaysia for ongoing support to rebuild the country's devastated education system, with 293 government schools destroyed in Gaza alone.
Myanmar's readmission to ASEAN meetings is unlikely in the near term, with the bloc maintaining that the junta must first demonstrate compliance with the Five-Point Consensus framework governing the response to the political crisis.
The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees faces a funding shortfall exceeding $100 million in 2026, threatening basic services for millions of Palestinian refugees across its five operational regions amid deepening humanitarian crises.
The Philippines' Foreign Affairs Secretary Ma. Theresa Lazaro, acting as ASEAN chair's special envoy, will lead a humanitarian mission to Myanmar by the fourth quarter of 2026, aiming to expand assistance access to conflict-affected areas.