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Four nights and days since the earth shook and levelled his home in eastern Afghanistan, Khan Zaman Hanafi thought he had endured the worst, until the rain came.

One of thousands of public servants in Gaza's Hamas-run government, Karim, a public works ministry employee, received what seemed like an ordinary message on his phone: an invitation "for a coffee".

Many who sought a better life have made the equally perilous return journey and wait in a coastal village for a boat to an uncertain future in Colombia

Exclusive: At least three countries are already out of some contraceptive methods – with more set to follow suit – leaving women vulnerable to high risk pregnancies and unsafe abortions, writes Rachel Schraer

ON THE GROUND : The US president has slashed nearly $600m in funding for contraceptives and the impact of the cuts could be deadly for tens of thousands of women, reports chief international correspondent Bel Trew from Uganda and Zimbabwe

An earthquake that killed more than 3,800 people in Myanmar in March unfolded as the country was already mired in a civil war, in which armed militias and pro-democracy forces are fighting the military-led government that seized power from a democratically elected government

The European Union and the United Kingdom have both donated to aid organisations at work in the region, side-stepping the Taliban government.

Now that the world has recognised what happened, the voices of those who suffered must lead us to fight for a world where women’s lives truly matter, Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy writes.

The UN’s decision to blacklist Hamas for sexual violence it conducted during and after the 7 October attacks is just the first step to prosecution, Dr Cochav Elkayam-Levy, founder and chair of the Civil Commission on 7 October Crimes says in a Euronews exclusive.

A major tribunal looking into the UK's complicity in the genocide in Gaza is set to begin today ...

Volunteers and rescuers were pulling nore bodies from the rubble of destroyed buildings in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, four days after an earthquake that inflicted a death toll that was already at nearly 1,470 people, Taliban authorities said.