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Dreams amid the rubble: Gaza’s women speak of homes, loss and hungry children
Human Rights
In Gaza City, families living in tents reveal a shared, grim reality.Many have been forced to flee the fighting dozens of times. Most find themselves homeless and hungry while facing…
Christianity
An Israeli strike on July 17 hit the only Roman Catholic church in the Palestinian autonomous territory known as the Gaza Strip. It is the Holy Family Church, the Latin…
Human Rights
“The playing field is still far from level,” Mr. Türk said. In the past few years, topflight women’s sporting competitions have achieved increased global prominence with around a billion people…
Human Rights
Juliette Touma, the director of communications for the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, has visited Gaza several times during and before the war and has been reflecting on the…
Human Rights
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued 14th of Jully an emergency order to the country's government, and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and the head of the State Medical and Biological…
Human Rights
The violence erupted two days after a Druze merchant was abducted on the highway to Damascus.The incident marks the latest episode of sectarian bloodshed in Syria, where fears among minority…
Human Rights
Threatened or actual tariff increases are largely focused on taxing imports into the United States and will make the products made by factories outside the country more expensive – a…
Human Rights
In 2024, 739 people in the German state of Thuringia had their licenses revoked due to health problems, the German Interior Ministry said. Most of those affected were elderly people…
Human Rights
The Greek parliament has approved a three-month suspension of asylum applications from migrants arriving by sea from Africa, despite strong criticism from the UN refugee agency and the European High…
Human Rights
Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan told ambassadors in the UN Security Council that the ICC has “reasonable grounds to believe” that both war crimes and crimes against humanity are being…
