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Bangladesh will maintain support both for its immense Rohingya refugee population and its vital garment trade, Nobel laureate and new leader Muhammad Yunus said Sunday in his first major policy address.

Locally caught species that are usually discarded or used as bait will star in a sustainable new food scheme – and local schoolchildren are on board

The number of acutely malnourished children has increased by 34% compared with last year, a United Nations report says.

As deadly attacks continue, UNRWA warns the so-called Gaza ‘humanitarian zone’ has shrunk to just 11% of the Strip.

The incursion by Ukrainian forces into Russia’s Kursk region is aimed at “creating a buffer zone on the aggressor’s territory“ to prevent further attacks by Moscow across the border, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday. Ukrainian forces struck another bridge over the Seym river in the Kursk region, the…

Countries call for ‘unhindered’ access to respond to growing humanitarian crisis in war-torn African nation.

The UK foreign secretary and his French counterpart write in the Observer about their fears over Israel’s escalating tensions with Iran

Head of regional bloc SADC says 17 percent of people across region in need of aid amid climate change-fuelled drought.

THE first case of Polio has been confirmed in Gaza, as aid groups prepare to deliver a mass vaccination programme ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday his forces were "strengthening" their positions in Russia's Kursk region, where Kyiv has been mounting a major ground offensive. His comments come a day after Russian officials accused Ukraine of using Western rockets to destroy a strategically important bridge over the Seym river in…

The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak