Nearly 94,000 children in Gaza City received a second dose of polio vaccine this weekend in an effort that was delayed by intense Israeli bombardment and mass evacuation orders in northern Gaza, the Gazan health ministry said. The second phase of the vaccination campaign was originally set to begin on Oct. 23 across the north […]
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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif says perpetrators of attack ‘should be identified and given exemplary punishment’. A bomb blast near a police office in southwestern Pakistan has killed at least two children and injured 16 people, authorities have said. Seven policemen were among those wounded when the remote-controlled bomb attached to a motorcycle detonated in Pishin
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Getty Images Former BBC News anchor Huw Edwards has been charged with making indecent images of children. London’s Metropolitan Police said on Monday that Edwards, who was the anchor chosen to break the news of Queen Elizabeth II’s death in 2022, had been charged with three counts of the offense. A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told
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The fire broke out at a family entertainment venue in Gujarat’s Rajkot district. At least 24 people, including many children, have died in a fire that broke out at a family entertainment venue in the western Indian state of Gujarat, a government official said. With rescue efforts continuing at the scene on Saturday evening in
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A family flees violence in Ecuador for the United States, but first they must enter the Darien Gap, a perilous jungle. Swanny Flores fled Ecuador with her two young daughters and 12-year-old brother after her boyfriend, a local gang leader, murdered her mother and threatened to kill the rest of her family. She wants to
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Varanasi, India – “Hum paani ke jeev hain. We are creatures of water,” says 29-year-old Vishwakarma Sahni. Sahni belongs to Varanasi’s community of approximately 8,000 mallah, the boatmen whose lives are deeply intertwined with the Ganges – a river considered sacred in India and which they hold in profound reverence. To them, the Ganges is
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The boat capsizes in Jhelum River near Srinagar, with most of the passengers being children on their way to school. A boat carrying a group of people has capsized in a river in Indian-administered Kashmir, drowning four of them, news agency Press Trust of India reports. The boat capsized in the Jhelum River near Srinagar,
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State’s governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, enacts the strictest measures yet in the United States. A new law in Florida will restrict or ban children from social media. Supporters say it gives minors much-needed protection. But it is opposed by tech corporations, and free speech and privacy advocates. So what are the arguments for and
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The 191 children were among the 425 victims found in the Shakahola forest in coastal Kenya last year. Kenyan cult leader Paul NthengeMackenzie and 29 associates were on Tuesday charged with the murder of 191 children whose bodies were found among hundreds of people buried in a forest. The defendants all denied the charges brought
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Afghanistan earthquake aftermath: UNICEF says 96,000 children at risk Al Jazeera English Almost 100,000 Afghan children are in dire need of support, 3 months after earthquakes, UNICEF says ABC News UNICEF Wants More Aid For Children Affected By Earthquake In Western Afghanistan Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty UN: Crippling Winter Puts Nearly 100,000 Children At Risk in
