Foreign Ministers gather for Rio G20

Foreign Ministers gather for Rio G20

Foreign ministers from the world's largest economies are gathering in Brazil for the first meeting of the country's g20 presidency. The meeting comes amid a number of global flashpoints including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the recent death of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny.

February 22, 2024 3

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Alleged Israeli strike hits Damascus

Regional tensions are mounting after an alleged Israeli strike on a residential building in the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, with state media reporting the blast killed two people. Violence is also increasing between Israel and Hezbollah, amid growing fears of a wider spillover from the war in Gaza. Sarah Coates has more from Tel Aviv.

February 22, 2024 12

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Fears mount over further regional spillover in the Middle East

Regional tensions are mounting after an alleged Israeli strike on a residential building in the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, with state media reporting the blast killed two people. Violence is also increasing between Israel and Hezbollah, amid growing fears of a wider spillover from the war in Gaza. Sarah Coates has more from Tel Aviv.

February 22, 2024 9

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Prince William is “deeply concerned” about the rising death toll of the Gaza conflict

In an unprecedented royal statement on the Israel-Hamas war, Prince William has declared he is “deeply concerned” by its “human cost” and said “too many have been killed”.

February 21, 2024 20

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United States blocks Gaza ceasefire resolution at UN Security Council

The United States has blocked the ceasefire resolution in the Security Council on Tuesday. Despite overwhelming support, the text was vetoed by Washington which has now tabled its own resolution. Jody Jacobs reports.

February 21, 2024 4

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Children’s lives threatened by rising malnutrition in the Gaza Strip

A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster. As the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip enters its 20th week, food and safe water have become incredibly scarce and diseases are rife, compromising women and children’s nutrition and immunity and resulting in a surge of […]

February 20, 2024 16

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Aid Cuts Are Not Criticized as Violence Against Women, but They Should Be

By Marissa Conway Britain has cut its international aid several times since 2020 and, by the government’s own admission, the well-being of women around the world has been substantially impacted. The 2021 cut to UNFPA, the UN Population Fund, is a prime example. If the £130 million (approximately $164 million) in funding had been maintained, it would have helped prevent a quarter of a million child and maternal deaths, 14 […]

February 20, 2024 5

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Israeli siege has placed Gazans at risk of starvation − prewar policies made them vulnerable in the first place

Displaced Gazan children wait in line to receive food. Belal Khaled/Anadolu via Getty Images Yara M. Asi, University of Central Florida The stories of hunger emerging from war-ravaged Gaza are stark: People resorting to grinding barely edible cattle feed to make flour; desperate residents eating grass; reports of cats being hunted for food. The numbers involved are just as despairing. The world’s major authority on food insecurity, the IPC Famine […]

February 16, 2024 14

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Gaza health ministry: 4 die in Israeli-raided hospital after oxygen cut

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said four patients died Friday due to lack of oxygen at one of the war-torn Palestinian territory's few operating hospitals that had been raided by Israeli forces. "The generators of the complex stopped and the power was cut off," the ministry said, raising fears over the fate of six other patients in intensive care and three children in a nursery at the […]

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