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Hungry and exhausted, journalists document Gaza war
AFP, Published on 23/07/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalists in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that chronic food shortages are affecting their ability to cover Israel's conflict with Hamas militants.
Refugees in policy limbo
Oped, Editorial, Published on 22/07/2025
» Time is running out. In less than two weeks, over 80,000 refugees on the Thai–Myanmar border will be left without food, health care, or protection. With US aid permanently cut, Thailand can no longer look away. The government must act before this humanitarian crisis spins out of control.
Japan PM faces reckoning in upper house election
AFP, Published on 20/07/2025
» TOKYO - Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces a reckoning from voters on Sunday with upper house elections that could end his premiership and see a right-wing populist party make inroads.
US senators approve $9bn of Elon Musk's cuts
AFP, Published on 17/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - The US Senate approved early Thursday a package of spending cuts proposed by President Donald Trump that would cancel more than $9 billion in funding for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting.
Fostering creativity
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 06/07/2025
» The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre exhibition "Creative City: Building A Better Future" displays artwork by 15 children, aged nine to 12, who drew imaginary houses on 3D cardboard models. The pictures of their houses were colourful with images of trees, nature and people engaged in fun activities.
Rubio hails end of USAID as Bush, Obama deplore cost in lives
AFP, Published on 02/07/2025
» WASHINGTON - The US foreign aid agency formally closed down Tuesday, with President Donald Trump's administration trumpeting the end of the "charity-based model" despite predictions that millions of lives will be lost.
US foreign aid cuts ‘could lead to 14 million deaths’
AFP, Published on 01/07/2025
» PARIS - More than 14 million of the world’s most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration’s dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.
Gaza rescuers say Israeli forces kill over 50 as ceasefire calls mount
AFP, Published on 01/07/2025
» GAZA CITY - Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli forces killed at least 51 people, including 24 at a seafront rest area, as fresh calls grow for a ceasefire in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.
Impact of US foreign aid cut in Asia to be minimal
News, Published on 28/06/2025
» The freeze and subsequent reduction of US foreign aid for democracy promotion in Asia, following the Executive Order signed on Jan 20, had a broadly limited impact.
UN air service slashes fleet by nearly a quarter
AFP, Published on 26/06/2025
» JOHANNESBURG - The United Nation's (UN) air service which flies humanitarian workers and cargo to hard-to-reach corners of the world has been forced to slash its global fleet by almost a quarter due to funding cuts, the World Food Programme (WFP) told Agence France-Presse (AFP).