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ON THE GROUND: Scrambling over sand banks and craters, hundreds of thousands of Palestinian families describe the long trek back home to Nedal Hamdouna inside Gaza and Bel Trew

Karim Khan says civilians being targeted and communities destroyed in western region of Sudan

Gunshots rang out through parts of the besieged DR Congo city of Goma on Tuesday, as Congolese soldiers clashed with militia fighters backed by Rwandan troops ahead of a UN Security Council meeting.

Congo’s security forces are fighting against Rwanda-backed rebels who advanced into a key eastern city in a major escalation of a decadeslong conflict

The M23 rebel group has declared the key city of Goma under its control, signalling a big blow to the Congolese army.

Exclusive: The YouTube megastar, beloved by kids and parents across the US, speaks to The Independent about fundraising for children in Gaza.

The Electronic Intifada’s executive director says his offence was ‘being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine’.

Experts say Trump administration’s order to halt foreign assistance will ‘cost many, many lives’.

In December 1972, the same month the Whitlam government was first elected, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 1975 as International Women’s Year (IWY). This set in train a series of world-changing events, in which Australia was to play a significant part.

Conservative peer Lord Davies called for a review on sentencing to allow whole-life orders to be given to under-18s.

Another day brings another monster tide for residents of Carteret county, North Carolina, whose coastal towns and villages are being swallowed by the rising Atlantic. Nonetheless, its voters returned Donald Trump to the White House, a man who denies the science of climate change and had withdrawn his country from…