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Aug 23, 2025 - World

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story hereThe head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an urgent scale-up of evacuations from Gaza, warning that more than 15,600 patients remain in need of specialised care.In a post on X, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus thanked the UAE for supporting the latest evacuation of critically injured and sick patients but stressed that far more action is needed. Continue reading...

Aug 23, 2025 - World

Relatives of Annie Lewis Marffy in ‘red-tape limbo’ over recovery of her body and issuing of death certificateThe family of a British aid volunteer reportedly killed in a drone strike in Ukraine said they were very disappointed by the reaction from the Foreign Office.Annie Lewis Marffy, 69, travelled from her home in Silverton, near Exeter in Devon in late May to deliver supplies packed into a green Toyota Rav4 in a mission arranged by the non-profit organisation Aid Ukraine UK. She was to take the vehicle in convoy with a British volunteer to Kramatorsk in the contested Donbas region. Continue reading...

Aug 23, 2025 - World

Immigration officials say they might deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda just days after he was released from a Tennessee jail pending his trial on human smuggling charges.

Aug 23, 2025 - World

Egyptian antiquities officials brought up artifacts from the Mediterranean seafloor that date back to the country's Ptolemaic and Roman periods.

Aug 23, 2025 - World

Pope Leo XIV strongly affirmed the right of people to return to their homes after an unjust exile, issuing the message during an audience Saturday with refugees from Chagos, the Indian Ocean archipelago that is home to the strategic U.S.-U.K. military base.