10 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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10 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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26 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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8 d. ago Afghanistan earthquake latest: Hundreds feared dead after 6.0

Taliban government has urged international aid agencies to provide assistance

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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 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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1 week ago Water scarcity restrictions to have ‘devastating’ impact on Scotland agriculture sector

Farmers and businesses in north Fife are facing the country's first water scarcity restrictions of 2025 following prolonged dry weather.

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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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