#humanitarian-aid

#humanitarian-aid

The organisation has been providing life-saving support to millions of people around the world for a decade Since it was founded in 2015, Choose Love has worked across 51 countries and with over 600 local partners to deliver aid to displaced communities in need, supporting over 8.5 million people, providing 1.3 million people with access to life-saving medical support, and saving 40,700 lives at sea.

Dear brothers and sisters, you are not forgotten. You might feel that the world doesn't see your suffering. Rohingya see you.

Security protocols in case of an emergency were reviewed and put into action: life vests, head counts and designated muster points. They were training for scenarios that could occur on any vessel fire, someone falling overboard, collision. But this training was different because there was another scenario. The volunteers were instructed on how to raise their hands in the event that Israeli soldiers intercepted the vessel, boarded it and detained them. The focus is on acting in a nonviolent way, in accordance with their mission.

Viroqua, population 4,407, is far from New York City, where clueless pundits and political operatives keep telling us that Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's advocacy for an end to the genocide in Gaza is too extreme. But the news from Viroqua offers a reminder that Mamdani and candidates like him are not on the margin of the national debate. Nor do they threaten Democratic prospects in 2026.

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors in the rubble of homes flattened by an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, killing more than 1,100 people. The magnitude 6.0 earthquake, followed by at least five aftershocks, hit remote areas in mountainous provinces near the border with Pakistan about midnight on Sunday. The head of the Kunar Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Ehsanullah Ehsan, said on Tuesday that operations continued throughout the night. He said there were still injured people left in the distant villages in need of evacuation to hospitals.

We are so delighted to be able to share that Gena, and all those taken with her, have been released following their kidnapping on 3 August, 2025, from the St Helene property in Kenscoff, Haiti.

At a time when the eyes of the world will be on Venice and the Film Festival, we have a duty to make the voices of all those who are outraged and rebelling heard: let us therefore turn the spotlight of the Festival on Palestine,

Israel said it would respond to the deal last week, but has yet to contact mediators, days past its own deadline. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks with reporters before a bipartisan meeting with senate leaders in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, July 9, 2025. Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Israel missed its own deadline to respond to a temporary ceasefire and captive release deal that Hamas accepted over a week ago, with Israeli authorities appearing "unwilling" to accept the framework despite Hamas saying that the agreement contains significant concessions in Israel's favor.

The first alarm was raised at the end of July: several humanitarian and family planning NGOs denounced the Trump administration's intention to imminently destroy a major shipment of contraceptives. USAID, the U.S. aid agency, was storing them in Belgium, awaiting distribution to humanitarian missions, mostly in Africa. The operation, along with the contraceptives, was left in limbo when the U.S. government decided to dismantle its well-regarded development agency a move that, according to the scientific journal The Lancet, could lead to as many as 14 million preventable deaths by 2030.

"We are outraged by the decision made to silence The Mary Wallopers yesterday at Victorious. As a band we cannot cosign political censorship and will therefore be boycotting the festival today." "As Gazans are deliberately plunged into catastrophic famine after two years of escalating violence it is urgent and obvious that artists use their platform to draw attention to the cause. To see an attempt to direct attention away from the genocide in order to maintain an apolitical image is immensely disappointing."