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Conflicts rage globally as arms spending hits record levels. Research into global conflict indicates more countries are at war today than at any time since World War II. Incoming US President Donald Trump, NATO and the EU all want to increase military spending – which hit record levels worldwide again last year. What are the […]
Is the world at greater risk of more wars? | Conflict Read More »
Children in Gaza live under the constant threat of Israeli bombardment. Soft Skin is a short film that shows the lengths mothers are forced to go to in case the worst should happen … and the psychological impact that has on their children. Soft Skin is part of From Ground Zero, a collection of 22
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The appointment breaks a deadlock that has left the country without a head of state since October 2022. Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun has been elected as the country’s president after a second round of parliamentary voting, breaking a deadlock that has left the country without a head of state since October
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Dozens of others injured after thousands of devotees queue outside one of the most visited Hindu temples in southern India. At least six people have been crushed to death and dozens injured as a crowd surged at one of the most visited Hindu religious sites at Tirupati town in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Gunshots were heard on Wednesday evening near the presidency in the capital of Chad, N’Djamena. Convoys of military vehicles were seen driving toward the presidency too, the news agency Reuters reported. According to the French AFP news agency, a security source said armed men had attacked the interior of the presidential compound while all roads leading
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Half of Sudan’s population faces acute food shortages. Famine is now present in five areas of Sudan – in what a senior United Nations official says is “a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions”. Millions are displaced and the United States says genocide is taking place. What’s the world doing for the people of Sudan? Presenter:
How is Sudan’s conflict worsening the humanitarian crisis? | Sudan war Read More »
Former Syrian detainee Bassam Ezzedine is on a mission to help prisoners of the fallen regime to find their families. Bassam Ezzedine knows all too well about the cruelty of Syria’s ousted government. After spending time in detention and seeing members of his family disappear, he fled the country as a refugee. But after the
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Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained last month in Iran while on a reporting trip, was released and on her way back to Italy on Wednesday, the Italian government said in a statement. “The plane that is taking journalist Cecilia Sala home took off a few minutes ago from Tehran,” the Italian government
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Some frightened residents were forced to abandon their cars and flee on foot from rapidly growing conflagration. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee parts of Los Angeles as strong winds drove the rapid growth of wildfires around the western United States city. More than 30,000 people were evacuated on Tuesday as
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President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States. In a rambling, hourlong news conference, Mr. Trump repeatedly
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