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US officials have hailed the ‘incredible’ job of aid distributors in Gaza. But starving Palestinians call the trek for aid the ‘death journey’ – with the UN saying nearly 1,400 aid-seekers have been killed since May

This week on The Sound Kitchen, you’ll hear the answer to the question about cigarette butts and microplastics. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, “The Listener’s Corner” with Paul Myers, Ollia Horton’s “Happy Moment”, and a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne created by Vincent Pora Dallongeville. All that and the new quiz…

IN FOCUS: Six months on from the US president’s order to halt all foreign assistance, Nick Ferris explores just how badly wildlife conservation programmes have been impacted – and how they have managed to keep operations going against the odds

THE United Nations has heard testimonies about the “disturbing” escalation in the scale and severity of violence committed by Israeli…

The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said that in 2021, 32,400 refugees and migrants had made the crossing from Libya to Europe, more than twice as many as in 2020.

As horrific images emerge and western nations move to recognise Palestine, the Israeli PM’s defiance-at-all-costs strategy is falling apart, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

Three Palestinians were killed at a Gaza aid site just hours after a visit to Rafah by Steve Witkoff and Mike Huckabee

Special envoy for the UN and the World Health Organization who was critical of the global response to Covid-19

The Handala Freedom Flotilla was intercepted by Israeli troops on Sunday as carried baby formula, nappies, food, and medicine to Gaza