Severe hunger stalks people in Gaza as bakeries close down
Bakeries across Gaza are struggling to find flour to make bread for people desperate for food. As families queue for dwindling supplies, aid agencies are unable to provide the basics due to a lack of funds. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has warned famine is a
Already struggling after losing homes to Israeli military operations, Palestinians face hardship as WFP halves aid.
The former Scottish first minister writes of his in-laws’ plight and the tragedy of those who weren’t so lucky A week into Israel’s bombing of Gaza in 2023, which followed Hamas’s deadly terrorist attack on Israel, Scotland’s then first minister Humza Yousaf received a text from his mother-in-law, Elizabeth. Elizabeth, a retired nurse from Dundee, and her Palestinian husband, Maged, had been visiting family in Gaza and become trapped there when the bombing began.
Russia's attacks on Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, are intensifying. Russia's attacks on the Ukrainian capital are hitting harder and more frequently, making 2026 one of the long war's bloodiest years for Kyiv.
Health workers in Gaza are participating in a breast cancer campaign called ‘pink blooms from among the rubble’.
At least seven people were killed and 34 wounded after two masked gunmen opened fire at a church in Karak, Jordan.
Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the US are expected to meet in Abu Dhabi next month.