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

PNP DeskApril 8, 2024September 19, 202408 mins

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…

I lost hope and will to live in Russian jail, says Ukraine prisoner of war

PNP DeskMarch 15, 2024September 19, 202407 mins

Latest graphic findings from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine – created by the Human Rights Council two years ago – highlight the ongoing grave impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. “I lost any hope and the will to live,” one Ukrainian soldier and former prisoner of war…

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

PNP DeskJanuary 4, 2024September 18, 202407 mins

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…

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

PNP DeskJuly 10, 2023September 14, 202402 mins

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…

Prisoner exchange between Iran and Belgium brokered by Oman

PNP DeskMay 26, 2023September 13, 202402 mins

A prisoner exchange between Iran and Belgium took place under the auspices of Oman. According to the news agency, Iran has released a Belgian prisoner who was imprisoned on charges of espionage. According to the news agency, Belgium also released the arrested Iranian diplomat. The Belgian national was arrested in Iran in 2022 on espionage…

Khizr Adnan, a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike, died in an Israeli prison

PNP DeskMay 2, 2023September 12, 202402 mins

Palestinian prisoner Khizr Adnan, who was on hunger strike in an Israeli prison, died. Palestinian citizen Khizr Adnan belonged to Islamic Jihad. According to Arab media, Palestinian citizen Khizr Adnan has died in an Israeli prison after 87 days of hunger strike. Islamic Jihad leader Khizr Adnan has been on hunger strike since his detention…

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

PNP DeskApril 14, 2023September 11, 202404 mins

“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…