Tue 12 December 2023: Natural disasters affected a total of 407.5 million people in Africa between 2000 and 2022 as climate-induced catastrophic events led to severe humanitarian crises across the continent, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has said. Amid the growing impact of climate-induced incidents across the African continent, such events have […]
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Mon 11 December 2023: Fierce fighting has killed nearly 300 Palestinians in the past 24 hours in Gaza as the Palestinian armed group Hamas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged threats. Israeli raids continued across the besieged territory on Sunday, including in northern Gaza where entire neighbourhoods have been flattened by air strikes and where ground […]
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Mon 11 December 2023: Over 300 Rohingya refugees have arrived on the coast of Aceh province in Indonesia after weeks of drifting across the sea from Bangladesh. The emaciated survivors – children, women and men – told of running out of supplies and of fearing death at sea as they landed on the unwelcoming shores […]
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Mon 11 December 2023: Since the current civil war began in mid-April, more than 3,000 humanitarian groups in Sudan have entirely halted operations, official SUNA news agency cited Sudan’s Humanitarian Aid Commission as saying on Friday. “These include around 2,900 national organizations, 110 foreign organizations and more than 10 UN humanitarian agencies and regional organizations,” […]
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Mon 11 December 2023: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will travel to Washington, DC on Monday for meetings at the White House and the United States Capitol as right-wing US Republicans resist efforts to send more money to support Ukraine’s response to Russia’s full-scale invasion. In a statement on Sunday, the White House said US President […]
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Sun 10 December 2023: The World Food Programme (WFP) says its ability to supply basic necessities to the people in Gaza is on the verge of collapse amid escalating Israeli attacks. “There’s not enough food. People are starving,” WFP Deputy Director Carl Skau wrote on X, formerly Twitter, following a visit to the besieged coastal strip on Friday. […]
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Sun 10 December 2023: One day after the US president called his predecessor “despicable” during a rally in California, Donald Trump has surpassed Joe Biden in national polls for the 2024 presidential race, according to a survey released on Saturday. A poll by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Friday (Dec 9) showed that presidential […]
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Sun 10 December 2023: In the week that followed the expiration of the “humanitarian pause”, Israel has escalated its invasion of the Gaza Strip. Aerial bombardment by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) resumed within minutes of the uneasy week-long pause that ended on December 1. It was then followed by advances of armoured units, artillery […]
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Sun 10 December 2023: The United States is buying Iran’s heavy water for its nuclear reactors through an intermediary despite sanctions, the country’s top diplomat said on Saturday. Speaking at an event in the Iranian capital Tehran, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian echoed what the officials of Iran’s nuclear agency have repeatedly said. He said […]
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Israeli soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of Master Sgt. Gal Meir Eizenkot, 25, who was killed in fighting in Gaza [Leo Correa/AP Photo] Sat 09 December 2023: More than 5,000 Israeli soldiers have been injured in Gaza since the conflict began on Oct. 7, with more than 2,000 officially recognized by the Ministry of […]
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