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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced Monday his candidacy for a third term in office, ahead of December elections he is widely expected to win. Supporters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gather at an election campaign rally outside the Cairo University campus in Giza, October 2, 2023. © Khaled Desouki, AFP “As I have responded […]

Israel will not be able to escape accountability for all the oppression it has caused in Palestine since World War II, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday as the war in Gaza entered its second month. People mourn Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on houses, at Abu Yousef Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah in the southern […]

Israeli forces battled Hamas militants in southern Gaza on Tuesday, prompting a UN warning of an “even more hellish scenario” as fighting pushes civilians into a steadily shrinking area of the besieged territory Palestinians fleeing Khan Younis arrive in Rafah further south near the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt on December 5, 2023, after Israeli forces […]

Abdullahi Mire, a former refugee championing education for displaced children and youth, is the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s Global Laureat Abdullahi Mire, a former refugee championing education for displaced children and youth, is the 2023 UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award’s Global Laureate. A former child refugee born in Somalia, who dedicated himself to changing lives […]

Israel shifted Sunday its brutal military operation in Gaza toward the southern half of the territory and issued evacuation orders for more areas in and around the city of Khan Younis Palestinians carry their belongings following Israeli strikes on residential buildings in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Dec. 2, 2023. (Reuters Photo) Heavy bombardments […]

Three young Palestinian students were shot and injured, one critically, in a suspected hate crime near the University of Vermont, U.S., police said Sunday. (From L) The three victims of a hate crime Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali, and Kenan Abdulhamid, who were shot on their way to a family dinner, are seen in this undated […]

Mediator Qatar said on Monday a truce between Israeli and Hamas forces in Gaza had been extended by two days, continuing a pause in seven weeks of warfare that has killed thousands and laid waste to the Palestinian enclave. Palestinians fleeing north Gaza move southward as ambulances head towards north Gaza during a temporary truce […]

At least 28 premature Palestinian babies were transferred to Egypt through war-hit Gaza’s Rafah crossing late Monday. Medics care for premature Palestinian babies evacuated from Gaza at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt, Nov. 20, 2023. (AFP Photo) Gazan Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced that “28 premature infants arrived today at the Rafah land port” […]

Russian special forces are planning to remove Ukraine’s leadership from power by the end of 2023, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky.president.gov.ua In an interview with the British tabloid The Sun published late Monday, Zelensky claimed Russia would use “any means available to them,” including assassination, in the operation supposedly dubbed “Maidan […]