World News in Brief: Haiti aid response, strikes across Lebanon’s Blue Line, UNEP welcomes Iran prisoner release, healthcare for the displaced

World News in Brief: Haiti aid response, strikes across Lebanon’s Blue Line, UNEP welcomes Iran prisoner release, healthcare for the displaced

Since early March, the World Food Programme (WFP) has reached more than 500,000 people, providing school meals, social protection and emergency activities nationwide. The agency has also served some 500,000 hot meals to over 76,000 internally displaced persons in 57 sites in the greater Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.  Aid partners have also delivered nearly four million…

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World News in Brief: Griffiths demands end to ‘ruinous’ Sudan conflict, Ukraine-Russia prisoner exchange, Iran bombings latest

World News in Brief: Griffiths demands end to ‘ruinous’ Sudan conflict, Ukraine-Russia prisoner exchange, Iran bombings latest

The UN Emergency Relief Coordinator said in a statement that as the conflict continues to spread “human suffering is deepening, humanitarian access is shrinking and hope is dwindling.” He said a grim turning point between government troops and their rival RSF militia has been reached with the recent fighting in Aj Jazirah state, the country’s…

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Negotiations for prisoner exchange between Israel and Iran are ongoing, foreign media

Negotiations for prisoner exchange between Israel and Iran are ongoing, foreign media

A newspaper published in Britain has claimed that negotiations are underway for the exchange of prisoners between Israel and Iran. According to “Al-Sharq Al-Awsat” newspaper, through this deal, the release of the Israeli Russian researcher Elizabeth Serkov will be implemented. The kidnappers abducted the female researcher from Iraq and brought her to Iran. Foreign media…

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Yemen: UN envoy welcomes mass prisoner release, urges push for political solution to war

Yemen: UN envoy welcomes mass prisoner release, urges push for political solution to war

“Nearly 900 conflict-related detainees are being released by the parties in Yemen starting today, Friday, and over the course of three days,” the Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen said in a statement. “This release operation comes at a time of hope for Yemen as a reminder that constructive dialogue and…

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The oldest Palestinian prisoner has been released from an Israeli prison after 17 years

The oldest Palestinian prisoner has been released from an Israeli prison after 17 years

Photos, international media The oldest Palestinian prisoner, who had been imprisoned for 17 years in an Israeli prison for arms smuggling, was released on Monday. A spokesman for the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club told the media that 83-year-old Fawad Shobaki has been released from Ashkelon prison and Shobaki’s son Hazem confirmed that he is about to…

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