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Palestinian official tells ICJ Israel using aid blockage as 'weapon of war'
AFP, Published on 28/04/2025
» THE HAGUE - A top Palestinian official told the International Court of Justice on Monday that Israel was blocking humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza as a "weapon of war", starting off a week of hearings at the UN's top court.
Top UN court to open hearings on Israel's aid obligation to Palestinians
AFP, Published on 28/04/2025
» THE HAGUE - The UN's top court will on Monday open a week of hearings on Israel's humanitarian obligations towards Palestinians, more than 50 days into its total blockade on aid entering war-ravaged Gaza.
Myanmar marks month of misery since historic quake
AFP, Published on 28/04/2025
» YANGON - Myanmar marked one month since suffering its fiercest earthquake in more than a century on Monday, with military bombardments unabated despite a humanitarian truce as thousands of survivors camp in makeshift shelters.
'Hunger breaks everything': desperate Gazans scramble for food
AFP, Published on 28/04/2025
» GAZA CITY - At the break of dawn, 10-year-old Youssef al-Najjar races barefoot, clutching a battered pot, to a community kitchen in Gaza City, only to find hundreds of others already queueing.
The land bridge dilemma
Life, Published on 28/04/2025
» Somjai Yhopkan was among 100 villagers who braved the torrential rain to attend a public meeting at the 3rd Mangrove Forest Research Centre in a hilly area of lush Ranong province.
More Thai aid workers sent to Myanmar
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 26/04/2025
» The Ministry of Public Health on Saturday dispatched the third rotation of its Emergency Medical Team (EMT) to Myanmar to assist victims of the recent earthquake in Mandalay.
Developing megaprojects, but at what cost?
News, Supara Janchitfah, Published on 26/04/2025
» The world's climate is deteriorating -- and yet, destroying pristine mangrove forests and wetlands that help absorb carbon emissions is no longer unthinkable.
Sudan's hell of devastation and despair
Oped, Published on 24/04/2025
» The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are stalking Sudan: brutal civil conflict, widespread devastation, humanitarian disasters, and the displacement of millions of refugees. Now add the Fifth Horseman, the darkness of global indifference.
Powerful 6.2 earthquake shakes Istanbul
Published on 23/04/2025
» ISTANBUL - More than 150 people were injured when they jumped from buildings in Istanbul on Wednesday as one of the strongest earthquakes in years hit the city.
Israeli strikes kill 17 in school-turned-shelter
AFP, Published on 23/04/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) — Gaza's civil defence agency on Wednesday said its crew recovered charred bodies from a school-turned-shelter for displaced people, as Israeli strikes killed 17 people in the Hamas-run territory since dawn.