As the first phase of the ceasefire deal with Hamas is about to expire early next month, Hamas returned the bodies of three Israeli hostages and a fourth, unidentified woman on Thursday. While Arab nations scramble to find out an alternative with a counter-proposal to President Donald Trump’s declaration that he will take over Gaza, the United States is pressuring the warring parties to move forward with the second phase.
The western Ukrainian town of Makiv is grappling with the absence of men. The Russian invasion has led to many people to either flee, fight, or lost their lives. It is a common problem in many Ukrainian towns and villages. The country’s decline of population has been worsened by the war. People who are left behind are trying to rebuild their lives and have fears for Ukraine’s future.
One of Syria’s premier tourist destinations before to the civil war was the ancient Palmyra ruins. But as Heather Murdock of VOA reports, the modern city is now in ruins and covered with mines, that have killed several people trying to return home.
After her parents and brother were killed by militias in the Darfur region of Sudan,fourteen years old Gesma fled the region to take care of her younger siblings. Like many children displaced by brutal violence in Darfur, she now works long hours to provide for her family in a refugee camp in Chad.Henry Wilkins reports. …
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A community organization in Chicago, Illinois, is helping undocumented migrants who say they are afraid to leave their homes for fear of being detained amid the country’s immigration raids.
As the Russian army advances, Ukrainian police and volunteers are moving quickly to evacuate people from areas along the front line. Pavlohrad is the nearest transit evacuation center in the Donetsk region.
Besmillah Miakhil purchased his first item a radio when he arrived in Pakistan four decades ago as a refugee. Miakhil, who is now 88, says broadcasts help him to stay in touch with Afghanistan, his home country.
As Russian forces advance on the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk in the east, there are reports of heavy fighting. Pavlohrad’s citizens are becoming increasingly anxious as they worry their city to be the next target, a hundred kilometers down the road.
Since large number of men being drafted, drafted,Ukrainian women have the opportunity to work in the vast coal mines in their country.Lesia Bakalets went to a mine on the front line in the Dnipropetrovsk region and heard from some of those.Due to security reasons, neither the exact location of the mine nor the full names of the miners have been disclosed.
With just a backpack, Ukrainians Yevhenia and Kostiantyn Mukhin fled Kherson in 2022. Determined to rebuild their lives but also to spread the joy of Ukrainian culture.