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Any Israeli ground attack on Rafah will lead to humanitarian catastrophe, warns UN Secretary-General 10 May 2024 - 07:10 pm
Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres. File photo.
Israeli airstrike on maintenance workers South of Lebanon injures two 10 May 2024 - 04:43 pm
Smoke billows over the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila following Israeli bombardment on May 10, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
Rafah offensive would lead to 'humanitarian disaster': UN chief 10 May 2024 - 03:50 pm
Palestinians sit on an animal pulled cart as they move to safer areas in rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Photo by AFP)
UNRWA closes its headquarters in occupied Jerusalem following arson attack 10 May 2024 - 03:28 pm
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OIC condemns settlers attack on UNRWA headquarters in occupied Jerusalem 09 May 2024 - 11:02 pm
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Toll of Israeli aggression against Gaza rises to 34,844 martyrs, 78,404 injured 08 May 2024 - 04:26 pm
A boy sits amidst rubble at the site of a building that was hit by Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern gaza Strip on May 8, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Palestinian presidency demands immediate intervention from US Administration to prevent Israeli occupation from invading Rafah 07 May 2024 - 04:43 pm
Displaced Palestinians travel on a cart in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on May 7, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by AFP)
'Unlike anything we have studied': Gaza's destruction in numbers 07 May 2024 - 02:20 pm
Displaced Palestinians flee Rafah with their belongings to safer areas in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
UNRWA warns of continued interruption of aid entry at Rafah crossing 07 May 2024 - 11:36 am
A Palestinian woman inspects the debris of a container at an UNRWA school used to shelter displaced people, after it was hit in Israeli bombardment on Nusseirat in the central Gaza Strip on May 6, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
22 martyred, dozens injured in Israeli Shelling across Rafah and Gaza 07 May 2024 - 11:33 am
A Palestinian boy checks the destruction from the roof of a damaged house following Israeli bombardment of Rafah's Tal al-Sultan district in the southern Gaza Strip on May 7, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Israeli forces take control of the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing with Egypt 07 May 2024 - 09:17 am
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4 martyred in violent Israeli raids on Rafah, Gaza and Jabalia 07 May 2024 - 09:09 am
A picture taken on May 6, 2024 shows smoke billowing following bombardment east of rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Photo by AFP)
IAEA chief in Iran as concern grows over nuclear activity 06 May 2024 - 06:44 pm
Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir Abdoulahian (R) meets with UN atomic watchdog chief Rafael Grossi in Tehran, Iran, 06 May 2024. Photo by AFP.
UNICEF warns 600,000 children face 'catastrophe' in Rafah 06 May 2024 - 05:22 pm
Displaced Palestinians who left with their belongings from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip following an evacuation order by the Israeli army, unload their belongings to set up shelter in Khan Yunis on May 6, 2024. Photo by AFP.
Gaza officials say Israel army strikes two Rafah areas it ordered evacuated 06 May 2024 - 04:08 pm
Displaced Palestinians who left with their belongings from rafah in the southern Gaza Strip following an evacuation order by the Israeli army, unload their belongings to set up shelter in Khan Yunis on May 6, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
'Where can we go?' ask Rafah residents as Israel demands evacuation 06 May 2024 - 03:03 pm
Displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip pack their belongings on May 6, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
Settlers storm Al Aqsa mosque 06 May 2024 - 11:02 am
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Palestinian Foreign Ministry demands enforcement of global protection system for Palestinians 05 May 2024 - 09:41 pm
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Asia

Government workers deliver supplies to local residents as cold waves hit Haiyang Town, Lingchuan County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Jan. 22, 2026. (Photo by Liu Jiaoqing/Xinhua) New cold front to sweep central and eastern China, bringing rain and snow
File photo of US Vice President JD Vance Trump says Vance to visit Armenia and Azerbaijan in February
Representational file photo Australian 12-year-old bitten by shark dies
Peninsula Indonesia landslide kills 7, more than 80 missing: disaster agency

Europe

Peninsula Four killed, others wounded in Russian airstrike on eastern Ukraine
Emergency services and investigators work on the site of a high-speed trains collision that killed at least 42 people, in Adamuz, southern Spain, on January 20, 2026. Photo by JORGE GUERRERO / AFP Spain train disaster probe suggests track was cracked
A picture taken on January 21, 2026 shows a regional service train the morning after it collided with a collapsed wall, killing one person and injuring seriously five, between Sant Sadurni d'Anoia and Gelida, near Barcelona. Commuter trains back in Spain's Catalonia after deadly accident
US actress Anne Hathaway arrives at the funeral ceremony for the late Italian fashion designer Valentino Gavarani at the Basilic of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, in Rome on January 23, 2026. (Photo by Stefano RELLANDINI / AFP) Stars turn out for Valentino's funeral in Rome

Africa

Peninsula Over 8 million children in Sudan deprived of education due to war: UK child rights organisation
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