20 h. ago Greta Thunberg LIVE: Activist's Family Boat targeted in drone attack near Gaza

Greta Thunberg was onboard Family Boat - one of the vessels with a Portuguese flag and carrying members of aid worker's Steering Committee - as it headed towards Gaza

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20 h. ago Greta Thunberg LIVE: Family Boat full of activists targeted in drone attack

Greta Thunberg was onboard Family Boat - one of the vessels with a Portuguese flag and carrying members of aid worker's Steering Committee - as it headed towards Gaza

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36 h. ago Taliban urged to lift female aid worker restrictions following devastating earthquakes

Thousands have been killed while many more have been injured by a magnitude-6 earthquake

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9 d. ago Home Office bans asylum seekers living off £10 a week from buying armoured cars

Aid workers say the ban on luxury goods shows how ‘out of touch’ politicians are with the realities of asylum seekers in the UK

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9 d. ago Eight people kidnapped from Haitian orphanage released after three weeks

Irish aid worker and director Gena Heraty was taken along with seven Haitians, including a three-year-old childAn Irish aid worker and seven fellow captives have been released nearly a month after they were kidnapped in Haiti.Gena Heraty, a missionary who ran the Our Little Brothers and Sisters orphanage in the hills outside Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was abducted on 3 August along with seven Haitians, including a three-year-old child. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Irish missionary and eight others freed weeks after kidnapping at Haiti orphanage

Gena Heraty was abducted at orphanage she ran along with seven Haitian colleagues and a three-year-old childAn Irish aid worker and eight fellow captives have been released nearly a month after they were kidnapped in Haiti.Gena Heraty, a missionary who ran the Our Little Brothers and Sisters orphanage in the hills outside Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was abducted on 3 August along with seven Haitian colleagues and a three-year-old child. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Irish missionary and eight others freed weeks after kidnapping in Haiti

Gena Heraty was abducted at orphanage she ran along with seven Haitian colleagues and a three-year-old childAn Irish aid worker and eight fellow captives have been released nearly a month after they were kidnapped in Haiti.Gena Heraty, a missionary who ran the Our Little Brothers and Sisters orphanage in the hills outside Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, was abducted on 3 August along with seven Haitian colleagues and a three-year-old child. Continue reading...

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1 week ago New footage reveals third Israeli strike on Gaza hospital that killed 22 and sparked global outrage

A new video shows the second strike on the Nasser hospital was in fact two near-simultaneous hits

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1 week ago Daughter of murdered Scots aid worker blasts IS terrorist's bid to return to UK

Bethany Haines, whose dad David was killed in 2014, has hit out at El Shafee Elsheikh, aka Jihadi Ringo.

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2 w. ago Pregnancy has become a nightmare for many women in Nigeria's conflict

In Nigeria, more women die giving birth than anywhere else in the world

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2 w. ago British aid worker, 69, is killed in drone strike in Ukraine as devastated family say they are in 'limbo' with 'no body'

Annie Lewis Marffy, 69, travelled from her home in Silverton, near Exeter, Devon, in late May to deliver a green Toyota Rav4 packed with supplies.

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2 w. ago British aid worker killed in Ukraine drone strike, according to NGO

Annie Lewis Marffy had travelled from her home in Devon to Ukraine to deliver a vehicle and aid.

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3 w. ago A record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half in Gaza, UN says

The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas

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3 w. ago Israeli unit tasked with smearing Gaza journalists as Hamas fighters – report

Israeli-Palestinian magazine says IDF ‘legitimisation cell’ set up to blunt global outrage over killing of media staffA special unit in Israel’s military was tasked with identifying reporters it could smear as undercover Hamas fighters, to target them and to blunt international outrage over the killing of media workers, the Israeli-Palestinian outlet +972 Magazine reports.The “legitimisation cell” was set up after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack to gather information that could bolster Israel’s image and shore up diplomatic and military support from key allies, the report said, citing three intelligence sources. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel

Last post from Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’Middle East crisis – live updatesHundreds of mourners carried the body of the prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif through the streets of Gaza City on Monday, a day after he and four colleagues were killed in an Israeli airstrike, prompting condemnation from across the world.Sharif, one of Al Jazeera’s most recognisable faces in Gaza, was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday night. Seven people in total were killed in the attack, including the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and the camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, according to the Qatar-based broadcaster. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Candida auris: Killer fungus warning as 'global threat' already detected in UK

Candidozyma auris has been detected in more than 40 countries across the globe with between 30 per cent and 60 per cent of cases in patients turning out to be fatal

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