Today: October 28, 2026
Today: October 28, 2026

Humanitarian Crisis

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Hell will freeze over before Havana gives in to Trump. But regular Cubans don’t have that long

Hell will freeze over before Havana gives in to Trump. But regular Cubans don’t have that long

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Strike on Darfur market killed civilians selling food to fighters, witnesses say

Witnesses in Sudan say that multiple civilian vendors are among the dozens reportedly killed in an attack on a market earlier this week in a poverty-stricken Darfur city in southwestern Sudan

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Houthis strike Yemen's Aden airport after evacuation warning

Yemen's Houthis attacked Aden airport on Wednesday, government officials said, after the Iran-aligned group warned people to evacuate the facility as fighting escalated

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Saudi Arabia says air defenses intercept Houthi missiles over capital, and other Mideast news

Witnesses say they heard at least four explosions over the Saudi capital, Riyadh, as Saudi authorities said they intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen

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More than 100 people killed in Sudanese army drone attack on market says Sudanese rights group

A Sudanese military drone strike has killed over 100 people in a market in Nyala, South Darfur

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Egypt approves military support for Saudi Arabia after Houthi attacks escalate

Parliament authorised Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday to take "all necessary measures" to

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'No fuel to keep babies warm': shortages push hospitals in Yemen's Taiz to brink

Fuel shortages in Yemen's besieged city of Taiz have forced one hospital to cut the number of incubators it can operate from 40 to 10, putting newborn

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Ukrainian who fled Oleshky views US-brokered ceasefire with deep scepticism

Six weeks ago, Vitaly, his wife Iryna, their 13-year-old son Vlad and their cat left the besieged town of Oleshky in Russian-occupied Ukraine to escape what they feared was

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Pope Leo calls for Yemen violence to end, in address two weeks after surgery

Pope Leo called for an end to the violence in Yemen on Sunday, as he addressed the faithful from the window over St Peter's Square less than two weeks after having

World

Melania Trump brokers a ceasefire deal in Russian-occupied Ukrainian city to get relief aid in

First lady Melania Trump has brokered a coming ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky so that humanitarian aid can be delivered and people can be evacuated

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El Salvador deploys special forces to Haiti to help find 4 missing soldiers who came under attack

Two officials have told The Associated Press that El Salvador has deployed 100 special forces soldiers to Haiti to help recover four missing soldiers from the Central American country who recently came under attack by gangs

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78-year-old priest carried out of Colorado ICE facility by fellow detainees after judge orders release

78-year-old priest carried out of Colorado ICE facility by fellow detainees after judge orders release

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Water rationing, rubbish pile-up raise disease fears in Yemen's besieged Taiz

Families have started rationing water in and around Yemen's Taiz city, where renewed fighting has disrupted fuel supplies and access to

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Kremlin says work is ongoing to ease humanitarian situation in Russian-controlled town of Oleshky

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that work was under way to ease the humanitarian situation in the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine, where residents have

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Sudanese drone attack killed more than 150 people in Abyei market, official says

South Sudanese officials said Sudan's military had carried out drone strikes that hit a market in the disputed Abyei region, killing more than 150 people, the latest in a

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Sudan's famine risk worsened by conflict, drought and funding shortages, report says

Conflict and drought are worsening food insecurity in Sudan’s Darfur and Kordofan regions, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification

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Rights group says paramilitary drone strike in Sudan killed 41 near Ethiopian border

A drone strike blamed on Sudan's paramilitaries has killed 41 displaced people near the Ethiopian border

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Desperate civilians risk their lives along mined roads to escape from a Russian-held city

Food and medical supplies have been scarce for months in Oleshky, which sits on the Dnipro River that separates Ukrainian forces from the city’s Russian occupiers

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In Yemen's besieged Taiz, families take shelter as Houthis close in

Ali Hassan and his family took shelter under a stairwell at a school in Taiz as Iran-allied Houthi forces closed in around them, tightening a siege of Yemen's third-

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Putin agrees to cooperate with Pope Leo's plea for aid for Ukrainian town

President Vladimir Putin told Pope Leo he had agreed to cooperate after the pontiff asked him on Friday to help get vital supplies into the Russian-

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Russian strikes and winter hardship may drive more Ukrainians from homes, UN agency warns

Millions of Ukrainians face another winter of

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Why is the battle for Yemen's Taiz so important?

The city of Taiz is rapidly emerging as the most important battlefront in Yemen's reignited civil war, pitting the Iran-allied Houthis against the internationally

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Ethiopia's Abiy names new Tigray government, wants polls in six months

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has named a caretaker government to stabilise the northern Tigray region and prepare for an election within six months, after fighting

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Almost all Gaza residents need shelter as El Niño threatens flooding, UN agency says

Almost all of Gaza's population need tents or help with shelter ahead of winter, with the El Niño weather phenomenon expected to bring heavier rainfall,