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Gaza’s food shortage: Mass death imminent, monitor says
Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now imminent without an immediate ceasefire and surge of food to areas cut off by fighting, the global hunger monitor said on…
Palestinians ‘need the bombs to stop,’ Irish PM says at White House
Palestinians "need the bombs to stop," Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said Sunday as he made an impassioned plea for a ceasefire in Gaza, speaking during a St Patrick's Day reception at the White House.
US President Joe Biden has…
Putin wins Russia election in landslide with no serious competition
President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said showed Moscow had been right to stand up to the West and send its troops into…
Israeli army launches operation in Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital
The Israeli army launched Monday an operation around Gaza's largest hospital Al-Shifa, with witnesses reporting air strikes on the devastated neighbourhood where it is located.
Israeli soldiers "are currently conducting a precise…
5 million at risk of starvation in Sudan: UN
The United Nations appealed Friday for Sudan's battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief to fend off looming "catastrophic" hunger.
Some five million Sudanese could face calamitous food insecurity in coming months as a…
US suspect in custody after fatal shootings of 3 family members
An "extremely dangerous" suspect was taken into custody in New Jersey on Saturday after allegedly shooting dead three family members, authorities said, following an hours-long effort to detain him.
Andre Gordon, 26, "surrendered…
Women bus drivers, a first for Uzbekistan
Saodat Shermatova "cried with joy" after Uzbekistan, a predominantly Muslim former Soviet republic, lifted a ban last month on women working as bus drivers.
"I was waiting a long time," said the 49-year-old, who used to work in…
In Gaza, there are no more ‘normal-sized babies’: UN official
The humanitarian situation in Gaza is a "nightmare" for mothers and babies, with doctors reporting small and sickly newborns, stillbirths and women forced to undergo C-sections without adequate anesthesia, a UN official said Friday.…
Trump hush money trial delayed until at least April, judge rules
Donald Trump's criminal trial stemming from hush money paid to a porn star before the 2016 US election will start no earlier than April after the judge on Friday granted a 30-day delay due to the late disclosure of evidence to the…
Israeli strikes kill at least 29 Gazans awaiting aid
At least 29 Palestinians were killed while awaiting aid in two separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, Gaza's health ministry said.
In the first incident, Palestinian health officials in the Hamas-ruled strip said…