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What you can do to help victims of the Turkey and Syria earthquake

Here are the charities working on the ground in Gaziantep and other affected areas.

The Independent UK

Turkey-Syria earthquakes: International aid guided by geopolitics

We bring you a special programme on one of the worst natural disasters to hit the Middle East in decades. Thousands have been killed after two massive earthquakes struck south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday. Relief efforts are still underway, with a host of nations sending aid, but time…

France 24

Mozambique's extremist rebels kill aid worker in north

Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region

The Independent UK

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Live Updates | Turkey, Syria earthquake kills thousands

The medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders says a staff member has been found dead under the rubble of his house in Syria’s Idlib province following the powerful earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey

The Independent UK

France urges release of 7 nationals imprisoned in Iran

France has called for the “immediate release” of seven French nationals detained in Iran

The Independent UK

"Go further north!" Italy exasperates migrant rescue boats

Right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is forcing migrant rescue ships to dock further and further north along Italy's coastline, meaning long journeys that raise their operating costs and strain their ability to continue saving lives.

Reuters

Italy rejects NGO ship's request for closer safe port

The Italian government has rejected a request from a ship run by Doctors Without Borders non-governmental organisation (NGO) to assign a safe port closer to the place where it rescued 73 migrants, an NGO official said on Sunday.

Reuters

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Mexico shuts down large migrant camp in the south

The Mexican government has dismantled a massive migrant camp in the southern state of Oaxaca where tens of thousands migrants have cycled through to get temporary transit documents on their way to the United States border

The Independent UK

Italy allows 2nd aid group's migrant rescue boat to dock

Italy has given permission for a second humanitarian aid group's ship to disembark its passengers rescued in the Mediterranean at an Italian port

The Independent UK

Pressure mounts in giant Mexican migrant camp as U.S. expulsions ruled unlawful

Thousands of migrants are camping in squalid conditions in a remote southern Mexican town after U.S. and Mexican authorities implemented new policies aimed at stemming the illegal flow of Venezuelans into the United States.

Reuters

Haiti fears spike in cholera cases as fuel blockade lifts

Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti as experts warn the situation could worsen now that the country is bustling once again after a paralyzing fuel blockade that lasted two months

The Independent UK

Uganda ends school year early as it tries to contain growing Ebola outbreak

Since the outbreak began in September, eight children have died — and there is no approved vaccine. But doctors are hopeful that public health measures may be enough to stop the spread.

WEKU

Rescue charity to take Italy to court over migrant boats standoff

Italy’s new right-wing government has allowed only a select number of migrants to leave two rescue boats.

Al Jazeera

Children living in 'open air prison' at Syria's Al-Hol camp: MSF

Beirut (AFP) - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Monday deplored the fate of thousands of children living in "a giant open air prison" at Syria's notorious Al-Hol camp.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Group Warns of Rampant Violence in Syria Camp of ISIS Families

A sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the ISIS group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawlessness, an international aids group said Monday. Doctors Without Borders also said that countries with citizens held in the detention center of al-Hol in Syria’s…

Evening Standard

New right-wing Italian government refuses to let migrants rescued from Mediterranean to disembark

Italy ordered the Humanity 1 to vacate the port of Catania

WEKU

Under Giorgia Meloni, Italy is refusing safe port to 4 ships that rescue migrants

The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.

The Guardian - US

Venezuelans who braved horrific jungle trek may now have to repeat it

Migrants who emerged from a two-week trek through the Panama’s Darién Gap found the US had slammed the door to asylum shut

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The Independent UK

Cholera overwhelms Haiti as cases, deaths spike amid crisis

Thousands of people across Haiti are becoming sick with cholera as medical staff struggle to care for them despite dwindling supplies of fuel and water

AFP

For struggling Haiti, return of cholera is a 'catastrophe'

Port-au-Prince (AFP) - When humanitarian officials in Haiti try to describe their concerns over a new, fast-spreading cholera epidemic, they struggle to find words strong enough: "alarming," "chaotic," even "a catastrophe."

The Independent UK

Nearly 300 rescued migrants reach southern Italian port

Nearly 300 migrants disembarked have disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto after being rescued at sea in five different operations by a ship operated by the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian wins its third Emmy for documentary ‘Get Away from the Target: Rescuing Migrants from the Libyan Coast Guard’

The Guardian wins its third News and Documentary Emmy.

The Conversation

How migrants who move between Zimbabwe and South Africa access healthcare in border towns

Zimbabwe and South Africa share a 225 km common border. There is only one official border crossing, at Beitbridge. An estimated 15,000 migrants and refugees from Zimbabwe and other countries cross daily either through the official border post or at illegal crossing points. Migrants’ access to healthcare, particularly in the…

Al Jazeera

The hospital train helping Ukraine’s sick and wounded

Chronically ill and injured patients are evacuated from the embattled east to safer hospitals in the west.

The Independent UK

150 migrants moved from overcrowded Dutch asylum center

Authorities have moved 150 migrants from an overcrowded asylum-seekers center in the northeastern Netherlands to two sports halls in a central city, alleviating the suffering of some of the people who have been camped in the open air in sweltering summer temperatures

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