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Nepal's mudslide disaster has claimed 675 lives with 2,498 people still missing as of Saturday evening. The catastrophe has stranded 753 tourists, including 589 foreigners, prompting urgent relief efforts across affected districts.
UN officials have sounded an alarm over the accelerating Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, warning that the crisis is outpacing international response efforts and demanding urgent scaling up of resources and medical support.
The UN has raised alarms over approximately 6,000 seafarers stranded aboard some 400 vessels in the Strait of Hormuz due to ongoing US-Iran hostilities, with at least nine ships abandoned by owners.