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Gaza ‘hell on earth’, says UN as battles rage
AFP, Published on 12/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP - Israeli forces battled Hamas militants and bombed more targets in the devastated Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the UN General Assembly was due to vote on a new demand for a ceasefire.
Israel bombs Gaza after warning Hamas nears 'dissolution'
AFP, Published on 12/12/2023
» GAZA STRIP (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israel pressed on with its bombing of Gaza on Tuesday after saying its campaign to destroy Hamas has left the Palestinian militant group on the "the verge of dissolution".
US vetoes UN ceasefire bid as Gaza bombings continue
AFP, Published on 09/12/2023
» GAZA CITY - Israel bombarded targets in Gaza on Saturday after the United States blocked an extraordinary UN bid for a ceasefire in the war with Hamas that has triggered alerts of an "apocalyptic" humanitarian situation.
'Babies are suffering': Afghans fear for kids at crowded border crossing
AFP, Published on 02/11/2023
» TORKHAM (AFGHANISTAN) - Khalida's young son fell ill while they were on the road to Afghanistan, racing to leave Pakistan under threat of deportation.
Rescue dog that helped find lost kids in Amazon is now missing
AFP, Published on 14/06/2023
» BOGOTá - Six-year-old tracker dog Wilson, who went missing during the ultimately successful, weeks-long search for four missing Indigenous children in the Colombian Amazon, is now the target of a rescue mission himself.
Recovery underway in tornado-hit Mississippi, 25 dead
AFP, Published on 26/03/2023
» ROLLING FORK, US: Mississippi started clean-up operations on Sunday after a destructive tornado tore across the state, killing at least 25, shredding houses and largely wiping out the small town of Rolling Fork.
Syrians fleeing war lose new homes in Turkey quake
AFP, Published on 08/02/2023
» DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: Ridwan Gurre had the instincts to hide from roaring warplanes when he lived in Syria during its civil war.
Indonesia quake survivors appeal for supplies as rescuers trawl rubble
AFP, Published on 23/11/2022
» CIANJUR, Indonesia: Survivors of an Indonesian earthquake that killed at least 268 people appealed for food and water Wednesday, as rescuers picked through devastated villages with hopes of finding anyone alive fading.
Displaced by flooding, Nigerians desperate for help
AFP, Published on 22/10/2022
» AHOADA, Nigeria: It was pitch black when the waters came, forcing mother Fortune Lawrence and her eight children to jump on a makeshift boat and flee their house.
We're hiring: babies wanted for Japan nursing home
AFP, Published on 30/08/2022
» TOKYO: A nursing home in southern Japan is "hiring" babies for a very important job -- to keep its elderly residents company and make them smile. The salary? Nappies and milk formula.