ROME, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The UN's World Food Programme warned Thursday that Gaza is "at breaking point" and appealed to urgently revive its network of 200 food distribution points to prevent pockets of famine spreading. "Gaza is at a breaking point. Desperation is soaring -- and I saw it firsthand," the WFP's executive director Cindy McCain said in a...
More food aid is reaching Gaza but it still remains far from enough to prevent widespread starvation, the head of the World Food Programme (WFP)...
JERUSALEM, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israel's defence minister said Thursday its forces were operating in "all combat zones", after Syrian state media reported a...
WASHINGTON, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The head of the US public health agency has stepped down after just four weeks on the job, health...
VENICE, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Protesters against Israel's invasion of Gaza held a banner saying "Free Palestine" and "Stop the Genocide" outside the Venice...
BEIJING, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - China said Wednesday that it would not participate in denuclearisation talks with the United States and Russia, after President...
TEHRAN, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Iranian forces have killed 13 militants in a raid in the restive southeast, state media reported Wednesday, adding they...
SARAJEVO, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Bosnia's national museum has defended a decision to donate funds from the display of a precious Jewish manuscript to...
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog has said a team of its inspectors are "back in Iran," the...
Two journalists for Reuters and the Associated Press who were killed in an Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital were not "a target of the...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 28, 2025 (AFP) - Fresh Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more, President...
KIGALI, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - A first group of seven migrants has arrived in Rwanda as part of a deal to accept deportees from...
BANGKOK, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - The toll in northern Thailand from landslides and flooding triggered by Typhoon Kajiki rose to five dead and 15...