According to the UN peacekeeping mission, bursts of heavy artillery hit an area just five meters away from the UNIFIL blue helmets, who had to […]
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Turkish military transport plane crashes near Georgia border, 20 dead
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‘Mobs’ target Palestinians in occupied West Bank, as floods roil Gaza
OHCHR condemned this week’s attacks as abhorrent and said they reflected a wider pattern of increased violence against Palestinians. Several people were reportedly injured in […]
Sudan war: Aid teams plead for access to thousands trapped in El Fasher
That ordeal reduced people to eating peanut shells and animal feed, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday, before condemning the reported mass […]
Military reform in Germany – Wikinews, the free news source
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Gaza: War has made children violent, sad and bereft
Issuing a warning that the children’s sense of stability and security has been eroded as key everyday services have collapsed, humanitarians insist that young Gazans […]
Sudan: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher
Since the Rapid Support Forces militia – which has been battling the military government – captured El Fasher after more than 500 days of siege […]
DR Congo hunger crisis worsening amid fighting and lack of aid funding
UN aid agencies are struggling to access provinces overrun by Rwanda-backed M23 rebel fighters at the start of the year, although dramatic funding shortfalls for […]
Rights chief warns ‘abominable atrocities’ likely continue in Sudan’s El Fasher
“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday. “I fear that the abominable […]
World News in Brief: Russian rights abuses in Ukraine, US a no-show for rights review, Orlando Bloom highlights Rohingya plight
During their mission from 2 to 6 November, the three members of the Human Rights Council-mandated Commission of Inquiry met survivors, families of victims and […]
