GENEVA, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - UN rights experts voiced alarm Thursday atreports of "enforced disappearances" of starving Palestinians seeking food atdistribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), urgingIsrael to end the "heinous crime". The seven independent experts said in a joint statement they had receivedreports that a number of individuals, including one child, had been "forciblydisappeared" after going to aid distribution sites in Rafah, southern Gaza. The GHF said there was "no evidence" of enforced disappearances at its aidsites. "Reports of enforced disappearances targeting starving civilians seekingtheir basic right to food is not only shocking, but amounts to torture," saidthe experts, who are mandated by the UN Human Rights Council, but who do notspeak on behalf of...
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...
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...
KYIV, Ukraine, Aug 27, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Russian strikes across Ukraine on Wednesday killed three people and left thousands more than 100,000 households without power,...
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...
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)...
The Advisory Council in principle today approved the draft of "Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress Ordinance 2025" having provision of death penalty as a maximum...
DHAKA, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS) - The Advisory Council in principle today approved the draft of "Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress Ordinance 2025" having provision...
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...
PARIS, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday accused Russia of showing "terror and barbarism" with missile and drone attacks on...
DHAKA, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS) - The Interim Government today approved in principle the draft of the "Enforced Disappearance Prevention and Redress Ordinance 2025". The...
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug 28, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - EU chief Antonio Costa on Thursday said he was "horrified" by a fresh round of deadly Russian strikes...