The United Nations has warned it will have to cut monthly food rations to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from $12.50 to $6 next month, unless it can raise funds to avert a measure that would worsen hunger in the world's largest refugee settlement.

DHAKA (Reuters) - The United Nations will cut food rations to Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh from $12.50 to $6 per month next month after failing to find funds, an official said, raising fears among aid workers of rising hunger in the world’s largest refugee settlement.

Cyprus's president on Wednesday said he was committed to resuming reunification talks with Turkish Cypriots, and said any deal should be based on U.N. resolutions.

A failure by the executive to appoint commissioners for the Irish language and Ulster-Scots has been criticised by a United Nations (UN) committee. The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) also criticised "inadequate funding" for cultural and language rights.

A UN report released on Wednesday has uncovered a pattern of grave human rights violations committed by armed groups in southeast Central African Republic (CAR), targeting Muslim communities and Sudanese refugees.

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The U.N. human rights chief has expressed concern about a “fundamental shift in direction” taking place in the United States when it comes to human rights.

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