Headlines
  • After American raids on the Iranian island of Sirik in the Hormozgan region, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated on Monday that it attacked an unidentified air base in retaliation.
  • After the occupation of the strategic Beaufort Castle, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims he has "instructed the Israeli military to expand the manoeuvre in Lebanon."
  • According to Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health, 3,412 people have died and 10,269 more have been injured as a result of Israel's military intervention.
  • After an Iranian missile attack was intercepted over Kuwait's Ali Al Salem Air Base on Wednesday, a number of American soldiers and civilian contractors were returned to duty after suffering minor injuries.
  • British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper stated on Sunday that the Israeli military's increased operations in Lebanon must halt since they have killed and displaced civilians, damaged infrastructure, and reduced diplomatic space.
  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani became the first mayor of a city in decades to abstain from the annual Israel Day Parade by skipping it on Sunday.

Category: Human Angle Story

May 2, 2019

Nurse Jamilla Returned to Help Gao...

Jamilla fled Gao alongside thousands of others in 2012, when extremist groups occupied the northern Mali city. She is among those who has come back after years to rebuild, and uses her skills as a nurse to help the city to heal, despite ongoing insecurity in the region

April 25, 2019

Disabled Syrian Woman Tells UN: ‘We...

A young Syrian refugee who lives with cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair told U.N. diplomats Wednesday that people like her are “invisible” in conflicts and said their needs must not be overlooked

April 8, 2019

Love In The Time Of Travel...

American Brian Swank and his Iranian fiance, Mehraneh, say they can’t wait to start a life together.Their courtship began when they met and fell in love four years ago, when Mehraneh was working on her PhD in landscape architecture at a campus of The State University of New York where Brian was studying, too

March 29, 2019

SA Library for the Blind turns...

South African Library for the Blind (SALB) has launched a centenary book about the library’s 100-year history

March 25, 2019

The Belarusian Hospital Trying To Break...

Statistics on the number of abortions at the hospital are not kept. Doctors can only say roughly that it is less than before. There used to be lot of abortions, remembers Kazlouskaya, explaining each was noted on a yellow form and collected in a folder that was stored away in a filing cabinet

January 29, 2019

UNICEF: Children Living in Conflict Affected...

UNICEF said while 2019 marked the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, more countries are embroiled in internal or international conflict than at any other time in the past three decades, threatening the safety and wellbeing of millions of children

January 12, 2019

Refugee Children Effected by Storm in...

Heavy rain, strong wind, snow and cold temperature led to floods, loss and destruction of assets and displacements in many regions, especially affecting coastal and mountain areas

January 11, 2019

Severe Weather conditions Have Affected Refugees...

The heavy rains of Storm Norma left their mark. Over 360 informal settlements were affected. Over 60 tents have been damaged in the Dalhamiya settlement alone

January 8, 2019

UNHCR Provides Emergency Aid to Syrian...

In Lebanon, life is a daily struggle for more than a million Syrian refugees, who have little or no financial resources. Around 70 percent live below the poverty line. There are no formal refugee camps and, as a result, Syrians are scattered throughout more than 2,100 urban and rural communities and location

January 7, 2019

Rahaf will not be forcibly sent...

The 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun fled from Kuwait during a family vacation and arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport Saturday night

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