Cluster munitions kill, wound over 1,000 globally in 2025
The 1,063 global casualties in 2025 one of the highest annual tolls on record, a report has found.
![Ukrainian military serviceman Igor Ovcharruck holds a defused cluster bomb from an MSLR missile, among a display of pieces of rockets used by Russian army, that a Ukrainian munitions expert said did not explode on impact, in the region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 21, 2022. [Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/reuters_6aa0cc11-1788922897.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
The 1,063 global casualties in 2025 one of the highest annual tolls on record, a report has found.
![Ukrainian military serviceman Igor Ovcharruck holds a defused cluster bomb from an MSLR missile, among a display of pieces of rockets used by Russian army, that a Ukrainian munitions expert said did not explode on impact, in the region of Kharkiv, Ukraine, October 21, 2022. [Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/reuters_6aa0cc11-1788922897.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
![French lawyer Matthieu Chirez (front 2L) arrives with relatives of victims for the trial of the 14 alleged smugglers over the deaths of 31 migrants in the English Channel in 2021 at the Judicial court in Paris, on September 8, 2026. [AFP]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/afp_6aa086d6befa-1788905174.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)






![A handout screen grab taken from a video made available by the Houthi rebel group shows smoke and balls of fire rising from trucks at a camp of the Saudi-backed government forces following an alleged Houthi missile strike, in the eastern province of Hadramout, Yemen. [EPA]](https://aljazeeranews-3fuh52rgrl.edgeone.app/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/epa_6a9f3aed0c0f-1788820205.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Cuba reports record losses from the US embargo as foreign minister describes months of punishing blackouts.
Some five million Yemeni children are deprived of essential routine vaccinations amid disputes.
Rescue teams work to locate survivors after New Delhi building collapse.
Adidas is facing calls for a boycott after featuring a former Israeli soldier in a campaign for amputees.
More than 5,500 people are still missing in China and Nepal after catastrophic floods across the two countries.
More than 60 people, including civilians, killed as clashes between Yemeni forces and Houthis intensify in Taiz.
More than 179 attacks on ambulance crews recorded since March 2, killing 179 healthcare workers.
The victims, all from one Palestinian family, had been sheltering at their family home when Israel hit it.
Fewer than one in 10 recovered bodies of people killed in deadly floods has been formally identified.
The attack on a crowded road comes amid fierce clashes across Taiz and Hodeidah and rapid civilian displacement.