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Palestinians rush to collect the humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Sunday.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP): The UN food agency said on Monday that “famine is imminent” in northern Gaza, where 70 per cent of the remaining population is experiencing catastrophic hunger, and that a further escalation of the war could push around half...
US President Joe Biden (left) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

WASHINGTON (AP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday agreed to send a team of Israeli officials to Washington to discuss with Biden administration officials a prospective Rafah operation as each side is looking to make “clear to the...
Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, pickets outside parliament in Serrekunda, Gambia, on Monday.

ERREKUNDA (AP): Lawmakers in Gambia on Monday rejected, for now, an attempt to repeal a ban on female genital cutting, which would make the West African nation the first country anywhere to make that reversal. Activists in the largely Muslim...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will evaluate its troubled recreational marijuana licensing programme after lawsuits and bureaucratic stumbles severely hampered the legal market and allowed black-market sellers to flourish, Governor Kathy Hochul...

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan is closing all schools starting Monday in preparation for an extreme heat wave that is expected to last two weeks. The health and education ministries advised parents to keep all children indoors...

BENGALURU (AP): Bhavani Mani Muthuvel and her family of nine have around five 20-litre (five-gallon) buckets worth of water for the week for cooking, cleaning and household chores. “From taking showers to using toilets and washing clothes, we...

MEXICO CITY (AP): It’s her choice – but one on which the hopes of millions of Venezuelans fighting to restore their democracy depends. Barred from running for office, opposition leader María Corina Machado is facing pressure from foreign leaders...

DEARBORN, Michigan (AP): While Muslim students remain a rarity in many US school districts, they are a major presence in some communities, prompting public schools to be more attentive to their needs during the holy month of Ramadan, when dawn-to-...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (CMC) The United Nations children’s agency said one of its containers carrying essential supplies for the survival of newborn babies and their mothers was looted by gangs at Haiti’s main port in the capital on Saturday. UNICEF...

GEORGETOWN (CMC) Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh says the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will soon acquire two new aircraft from India with a US$23.27 million loan from India’s Export-Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank). The agreement was signed on...
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