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Tapping out: Kabul may be first modern city to run out of water; report warns of ‘unprecedented humanitarian disaster’

Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, could become the first modern city to completely run out of water, warns a recent report. The report titled ‘Kabul’s Water Crisis: An Inflection Point for Action’, released recently by the NGO Mercy Corps, outlines in detail the city’s worsening water emergency and urges immediate international and domestic attention.The report says that […]

Italy PM says Gaza humanitarian situation ever more ‘unjustifiable’ | World News

Italy PM says Gaza humanitarian situation ever more ‘unjustifiable’ Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Wednesday the humanitarian situation in Gaza was “ever more dramatic and unjustifiable”, stressing she had repeatedly urged Israel to find a way to end the conflict.“It is a request that I renew today in the face of a humanitarian situation […]

Trump asks Supreme Court to end Biden-era humanitarian parole, threatening legal status of 500,000 migrants

The Trump administration has turned to the Supreme Court in a fresh effort to end legal protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants. In an emergency filing on Thursday, the administration asked the justices to reverse a lower court’s order that blocked plans to cancel humanitarian parole for people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela. […]

Israel says no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza

JERUSALEM: Israel said Wednesday it would keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering Gaza, where a relentless military offensive has turned the Palestinian territory into a “mass grave”, a medical charity reported.Air and ground attacks resumed across the Gaza Strip from March 18, ending a two-month ceasefire with Hamas that had largely halted hostilities in the […]