Israel said it resumed aid airdrops to Gaza on Saturday and was taking several other steps to ease the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, amid mounting international pressure and warnings from relief agencies of starvation spreading there. The Israeli military said “humanitarian corridors” would be established for safe movement of United Nations convoys delivering…
US-funded contraceptives worth nearly USD 10 million are being sent to France from Belgium to be incinerated, after Washington rejected offers from the United Nations and family planning organisations to buy or ship the supplies to poor nations. The supplies have been stuck for months in a warehouse in Geel, a city in the Belgian…
More than 100 large aid and rights groups on Wednesday called for governments to take action as hunger spreads in Gaza, including by demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the lifting of all restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid. In a statement signed by 111 organisations, including Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council…
At least 67 Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire as they waited for UN aid trucks in northern Gaza on Sunday, the Gaza health ministry said, as Israel issued new evacuation orders for areas packed with displaced people. The ministry said dozens of people were also wounded in the incident in northern Gaza. It was…
20 Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center run by an Israeli-backed American organization in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly from being trampled, the group said. They were the first deaths reported at one of the group’s sites, though hundreds have been killed by Israeli forces on the roads leading to them, according…
Consumer inflation in India is projected to ease to an average of 4% in the current financial year, down from 4.6% in FY25, according to the latest report by Crisil. The rating agency attributed the expected moderation to softer food prices, aided by above-normal monsoon forecasts from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), and lower global…
Trump administration sued by over 20 states over funding freeze for 1.4 million school children. More than 20 US states have taken legal action against the Trump administration over a major freeze in federal education funding. At the center of the controversy is a halt on billions of dollars meant for after-school and summer learning…
Now Idaho school districts blindsided as US withholds over $33 million in federal aid Idaho school districts have been unexpectedly hit by a freeze on more than $33 million in federal funding, leaving local education authorities scrambling to adjust budgets and staffing plans just weeks before the new academic year begins. The payments, which had…
The Trump administration has escalated its efforts to restrict access to public services by barring undocumented families from a wide range of federal aid programs. In a move that education and health advocates are calling deeply punitive, undocumented children will no longer be allowed to enroll in Head Start, a foundational preschool program that has…
The UN rights office said on Friday it had recorded at least 798 killings within the past six weeks at aid points in Gaza run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and near convoys run by other relief groups. The GHF uses private US security and logistics companies to get supplies into Gaza,…