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Risks of a wave are compounded by new vaccine restrictions from the Trump administrationCovid is on the rise again in the US, as children begin returning to school and as officials plan to restrict booster shots.While cases are increasing less quickly …
Byron Black, 69, put to death after legal battle in which lawyers said defibrillator would shock heart repeatedlyTennessee has executed a man without deactivating his implanted defibrillator, despite uncertainty about whether the device would shock his…
Russia has firmly backed India amid threats from US President Donald Trump to impose higher tariffs on Indian goods because of India’s continued purchase of Russian oil.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov condemned the US pressure on India as illegal and illegitimate, emphasising that sovereign nations possess the right to choose their own trading partners according to their national
As conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel continue to deteriorate, a senior UN official upheld the need for a political solution to the crisis in Gaza that can lead to a lasting peace between the two peoples. Read the full story, …
Famine was declared in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur one year ago. And since then, little has changed – no aid trucks have reached the region, the nearby city of El Fasher is still under siege and food prices are four times higher than other parts of…
The Security Council is meeting to discuss rising concern in Israel and elsewhere over the dire conditions facing the dozens of hostages who remain in Gaza. It follows the release of recent videos by Hamas and other Palestinian militants showing emacia…
On Tuesday, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported the deaths of five children with a dozen seriously injured, following the detonation of an unexploded mortar shell in the city of Lakki Marwat in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province over the weeke…
Children in Gaza are dying not just from hunger, but from the total collapse of the systems meant to protect them, UN agencies warned on Tuesday.Read the full story, “Gaza crisis deepens as UN warns children are ‘dying before reaching hospital’”, on gl…
Obtaining food is no longer a routine journey in Gaza; it has become a race, fraught with death on all sides as women and children risk their lives to get aid.Read the full story, “Hunger in Gaza: Women and children face death in search of food”, on gl…
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that 56 people had died and 132 were missing after a vessel carrying 200 migrants capsized off the coast of Shuqrah, in Yemen’s Abyan Governorate on 3 August. Read the full story, “Dozens more…