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With only Rafah crossing open for transit, extra screenings are unlikely to affect actual volume of aid entering Gaza.

Charges would add to fund for at-risk nations but Andrew Mitchell believes colleagues would not back them

Violence against women and children, including sexual abuse and exploitation, remains a taboo subject in the policy debates attended by international delegates at COP28, the latest round of the UN climate negotiations in Dubai. However, the connections between climate change and gender-based violence, including human trafficking, are real and already…

Israel is pressing ahead with an offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers that it says could go on for weeks or months

Israel and the United States are increasingly isolated as they face global calls for a cease-fire in Gaza, including a non-binding vote expected to pass at the United Nations later on Tuesday

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Izzat Abdulhadi asks government not to abstain like it did in October vote, saying leadership is about principles even amid ‘huge risk’

A major, long-shot effort is gearing up to mobilize money to save Planet Earth by helping poorer countries go greener

The US military emits more than entire industrialised nations like Portugal and Denmark, yet evades scrutiny.