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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 […]

EL PASO, Texas – It wasn’t until Alma Zavala was at the top of the 30-foot steel border fence that she realized how far she had to fall. “I hugged the wall,” she said. “My hands were bleeding from the rough edges. The guide was screaming, ‘Let go! Let go!’ I dropped down and felt […]

Intense clashes broke out on Monday around a hospital in northern Gaza, where thousands of patients and displaced individuals have sought refuge for weeks. A man carries a child injured in an Israeli strike on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, Nov. 20, 2023. (AFP Photo) Israeli forces are concentrating efforts on clearing medical […]

Hundreds of U.S. Jewish activists peacefully occupied New York’s Statue of Liberty on Monday to demand a cease-fire by Israel and an end to the “genocidal bombardment” of civilians in Gaza. Pro-Palestinian activists are seen with the Statue of Liberty in the background, New York City, U.S., Nov. 6, 2023. (AFP Photo) Dressed in black […]