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Sudan’s children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve
ByKat Lay, Global health correspondent July 17, 2025

The country, beset by war, has the world’s lowest rates of vaccination, says the World Health Organization, as global immunisation drive also stallsChildren in Sudan, caught up in what aid organisations have called the world’s largest humanitarian cris…

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‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees
BySaeed Al-Batati in Al-Mukalla July 10, 2025

War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely survivingThe pain of going to bed hungry is becoming familiar for Jamila Rabea. It’s hard to sleep. The meagre rations of bread, tomato paste and …

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‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees
BySaeed Al-Batati in Al-Mukalla July 10, 2025

War has intensified poverty and hunger as aid is cut, with many families living in makeshift camps barely survivingThe pain of going to bed hungry is becoming familiar for Jamila Rabea. It’s hard to sleep. The meagre rations of bread, tomato paste and …

Read More ‘We live on bread and tea. I’ve wished for death’: Yemen’s forgotten refugees
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Saudi Arabia executing ‘horrifying’ number of foreigners for drug crimes
ByTom Levitt July 8, 2025

Hundreds put to death for non-violent drug offences over past decade, with little scrutiny of Saudis, says AmnestySaudi Arabia has carried out a “horrifying” number of executions for drug crimes over the past decade, most of which were of foreign natio…

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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
ByWilliam Christou in Amman and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza July 5, 2025

Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babiesDoctors in Gaza have warned that hundreds of babies are at risk of death amid a critical shortage of baby milk, as I…

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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
ByWilliam Christou in Amman and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza July 5, 2025

Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babiesDoctors in Gaza have warned that hundreds of babies are at risk of death amid a critical shortage of baby milk, as I…

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‘No other explanation’: children of slain Gaza doctor say he was deliberately targeted
ByAnnie Kelly and Hoda Osman July 4, 2025

Family of Dr Marwan al-Sultan says the Israeli airstrike ‘precisely’ hit the apartment block the cardiologist and his relatives occupiedThe children of Dr Marwan al-Sultan, director of Gaza’s Indonesian hospital and one of the territory’s most senior d…

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‘Shock and grief’ as senior doctor killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza
ByAnnie Kelly and Hoda Osman July 2, 2025

Marwan al-Sultan, a renowned cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital, is the 70th healthcare worker to be killed by Israeli attacks in the past 50 days, says Palestinian medical organisationAn Israeli airstrike has killed one of Gaza’s mos…

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Send in armed UN troops to protect aid convoys or risk ‘dystopia’, says expert
ByMark Townsend June 16, 2025

UN rapporteur calls for move as food deliveries are attacked and starvation becomes a weapon of war in Gaza and SudanUN peacekeepers should be routinely deployed to protect aid convoys from attack in places such as Gaza and Sudan, a senior United Natio…

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