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Humanitarians must be able to deliver aid in Gaza, UN agencies insist

The humanitarian network is currently at a standstill because the internet shut down earlier this week after the last fibre cable route serving central...

Peacekeeping: Lacroix warns of rising threats to ‘blue helmets’ in Middle East

Briefing journalists by video link from Jeddah following an extensive visit to the region, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said there has been an uptick in dangerous...

Gaza: Paramedic still missing after aid worker killings, Palestinian Red Crescent Society calls for...

Last Sunday, a joint PRCS and UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) mission uncovered a shallow grave in Rafah. The bodies of eight PRCS paramedics, six civil...

UN warns of escalating conflict in Yemen amid humanitarian crisis, regional tensions

The crisis in Yemen, which worsened in 2014 after Houthi rebels (known officially as Ansar Allah) seized the capital, has been marked by complex...

How Creationists can follow up with the critiques of Evolutionists, Atheists, and other Anti-Creationists...

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). Undoubtedly, as far as the origin of the universe is concerned, a significant disagreement exists between creationists and anti-creationists. In short,...

Scientifically unchaining the power of the turbulence code that cracked the universe formation

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). Scientists and engineers have long known that cracking the code of turbulence would be highly gratifying, but they did not know...

Synthetic drug market disrupted in Syria after regime change

Captagon, a highly addictive stimulant, has been circulating illegally from the Middle East to Africa and back with 80 per cent of seizures since...

Gaza: As world waits for Hamas response, aid teams call for ceasefire

Winter is fast-approaching and heavy ongoing Israeli military operations in Gaza City continue to drive mass displacement.“It's important that we get that ceasefire and...

Rising hunger in Gaza highlights urgent need for ‘unfettered’ aid supplies

Only around 6,000 tonnes of wheat flour have entered the war-torn enclave since Israel began to allow limited supplies back in last month.  However, 10,000...

Security Council: Middle East envoy warns against escalation, highlights continued Israeli settlement activity

“The series of explosions across Lebanon and rockets fired toward Israel in recent days adds to the volatility,” said Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for...

Scientifically unchaining the power of the turbulence code that cracked the universe formation –...

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). Scientists and engineers have long known that cracking the code of turbulence would be highly gratifying, but they did not know...

Gaza: Search for food puts lives on the line

Since the end of May, aid distribution in Gaza has been carried out by a mechanism backed by Israel and the United States bypassing...

Israel’s new laws banning UNRWA already taking effect

If implemented, the two new laws passed in October will simultaneously prohibit Israeli authorities from contacting UNRWA and ban the agency from operating in...

Syria’s humanitarian crisis: 16.5 million in need amid continuing conflict

Briefing journalists in New York from Damascus, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Syria, Adam Abdelmoula, explained that the country remains at a critical juncture...

Security Council meets on Syria transition and humanitarian crisis

The UN Security Council meets Friday morning in New York to discuss the evolving situation in Syria, as the country navigates a fragile transition...

‘We won’t stop’: Afghan women keep businesses alive despite sweeping rights abuses

For many, running a small business has become the only viable path to earning an income – and a way to support other women...

Universe-origin scientist shares 3 world-shaking, lifesaving truths about the separation of science and faith...

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). While the arguments against or in favor of the separation of science and faith (or church and state) are well-known to...

‘I dream of a safe life’: Gaza’s children share the future they want

Through expressing their hopes for peace in art, poetry and models that they have made from rubble created by the war, thousands of young people...

Lime-flavoured memories drive innovation on Saudi farm

Mohamed Alnwairan stands in front of a verdant citrus tree which four months hence will bear his first harvest of limes.A former businessman turned...

Famine in Gaza: ‘a failure of humanity itself,’ says UN chief

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said the results of the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis were no mystery: “It is a man-made disaster,...

Gaza: Top independent rights probe alleges Israel committed genocide

In a new report published against the backdrop of intensifying Israeli military operations in Gaza City, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on...

How to raise rational children in our modern world

Photo credit: Science180 (www.Science180.com). In our modern secular world, and with the many things that kids are taught at school and over which parents have...

West Bank security situation remains alarming, warn UN aid agencies

The violence has seen exchanges of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants – and the use of bulldozers in refugee camps for the...