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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (not pictured) following a meeting between the U.S. top diplomat and Arab envoys, in Cairo on March, 21, 2024. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — A U.S. effort to ramp up political pressure on Israel by […]
Andriy Zholob (LVIV, Ukraine) — After 21 months serving as a commander of the Ukrainian forces’ medical company А4350, Andriy Zholob, a 43-year-old senior lieutenant, has returned home to Lviv. He ended up home only because of his 83-year-old mother’s illness, he told ABC News. He’s an only son, so he had the right to […]
Ines de la Cuetara/ABC News (EL ARISH, Egypt) — Those who were too weak to walk boarded the plane in wheelchairs and stretchers. Some had already been receiving treatment in Egypt; others arrived straight from Rafah, the southern Gaza town bordering Egypt. “I was at the sea, it was meant to be a safe area. […]
Tim Graham/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Access to clean and safe water is the “great connector” of our world and critical in promoting peace, according to the 2024 United Nations World Water Development Report released on World Water Day. Globally, 2.2 billion people still live without access to safely managed drinking water and 3.5 billion […]
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a joint press conference with Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (not pictured) following a meeting between the U.S. top diplomat and Arab envoys, in Cairo on March, 21, 2024. (EVELYN HOCKSTEIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — As U.S. and Israeli officials publicly sound off over a potential […]
Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images (TEL-AVIV, Israel) — Displaced Gazans at Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza were reportedly being told to evacuate immediately Thursday, as Israel’s raid on the hospital continues into a fourth day amid the ongoing war with Hamas. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an operation at Al-Shifa on Monday, claiming […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. has submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council calling for “an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Saudi news outlet Al Hadath on Wednesday. “Well, in fact, we actually have a resolution that we put forward right now that’s […]
Police officers stand guard outside the London Clinic after the UK’s Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton underwent planned surgery in London, United Kingdom on January 18, 2024. Princess of Wales will stay two weeks in hospital after undergoing successful abdominal surgery. (Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty Images) (LONDON) — The investigation at the London hospital […]
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — Humanitarian organizations are sounding alarm over the crisis in Sudan, warning the conflict has created “one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent memory.” Speaking at a briefing to the security council on the humanitarian situation in Sudan, Edem Wosornu, director of Operations and Advocacy at the United Nations Office for […]
A woman and her daughter sit at a nutritional stabilization center in Gaza in March, in a photo supplied by MedGlobal. (MedGlobal) (UNITED NATIONS) — At the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, four doctors from the U.S., U.K. and France who have spent decades working on the frontlines, warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza […]
