Pope Francis pleaded Sunday for an end to the Hamas-Israeli conflict amid fears it could widen, and called for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into to the Gaza Strip. “War is always a defeat, it is a destruction of human fraternity. Brothers, stop! Stop!” Francis said after his traditional Angelus prayer in Rome’s Saint […]
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Antonio Guterres (Photo by Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) UN chief Antonio Guterres pleaded Saturday for a “humanitarian ceasefire” in the war between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas, demanding global “action to end this godawful nightmare”. Addressing a peace summit in Cairo as the war raged into its third […]
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses a high-level event to mark the International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism via a video link, at the UN headquarters in New York, on Aug. 20, 2021. Guterres on Friday pledged the world body’s support for victims of terrorism. (Loey Felipe/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua) […]
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Men stand on top of the rubble of a home targeted by Israeli air raids in Shati refugee camp. Photo: Abedelhakim Abu Riash/Al Jazeera Contradictions around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have been ever salient and even more boldly in recent developments as rooted claimant sentiments, once again with anti-peace and disruptive acts, emerge with the promise […]
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The United States, yesterday, formally declared the ousting of Niger’s democratically-elected president a coup d’état, more than two months after mutinous soldiers seized power in that country. According to senior administration officials, the U.S. was taking action after exhausting all avenues to preserve constitutional order in the West African nation, including urging the military leaders […]
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A general scene of destruction caused by a landslide in the district of Mbankolo, northwest of Yaounde, on October 9, 2023. – At least 27 people have been killed after heavy rains caused a hillside section covered in precariously built houses to collapse in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde. Rescuers were still searching for victims after the […]
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A black plume of smoke billows behind highrise buildings in the sky during an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on October 9, 2023. – Israel relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip overnight and into October 9 as fighting with Hamas continued around the Gaza Strip, as the death toll from the war against the Palestinian militants […]
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Halinda Binte Ismail, mother of death row convict Mohd Idzwan, reacts while speaking to reporters in Singapore on October 9, 2023. – Families of death row convicts urged the Singapore government on October 9 to impose a moratorium on capital punishment to allow for an independent review of the controversial use of executions in the […]
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At least 23 people have been killed in a landslide caused by heavy rain in Cameroon’s capital Yaounde, firefighters said on Monday. Landslides are frequent during the rainy season in Yaounde, where houses are sometimes built precariously on the city’s many hills. The latest incident occurred late Sunday in the district of Mbankolo, northwest of […]
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Israel, reeling from the deadliest attack on its territory in half a century, formally declared war on Hamas on Sunday as the conflict’s death toll surged to 1,000 after the Palestinian militant group launched a massive surprise assault from Gaza. AFP reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu steeled the shocked and grieving nation for a […]
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