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Security Council meets over Israel-Gaza: ‘Very real risk’ of conflict expanding warns top envoy

Security Council meets over Israel-Gaza: ‘Very real risk’ of conflict expanding warns top envoy

Mr. Wennesland told an emergency briefing of the Security Council that he “watched in horror and in real time” as reports of mass casualties emerged from Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City on Tuesday. “The circumstances of this catastrophe and responsibility remains and still needs to be clarified.  And we will need a fact-based, full investigation…

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World News in Brief: Funds dry up for Afghan quake survivors, child deaths alert in Sudan, diphtheria outbreak in Guinea

World News in Brief: Funds dry up for Afghan quake survivors, child deaths alert in Sudan, diphtheria outbreak in Guinea

That’s the message from the UN World Food Programme (WFP), which appealed on Wednesday for $19 million to provide emergency food assistance to those “in desperate need” in the country’s western Herat province. The agency’s deputy director in Afghanistan Ana Maria Salhuana stressed that to assist earthquake survivors WFP “is having to take this food…

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Instructing Abdullah Shafiq to avoid unnecessary meetings

Instructing Abdullah Shafiq to avoid unnecessary meetings

The management of the national cricket team instructed opening batsman Abdullah Shafiq to avoid unnecessary meetings. In Bengaluru, Abdullah Shafiq is suffering from fever and flu, the team management is taking precautions to prevent the flu from spreading further. The team management has therefore asked Abdullah Shafiq to avoid unnecessary meetings. The opening batsman of…

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