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World
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International
8/19/2024 7:27:44 PM
A record number of aid workers were killed in conflicts around the world last year, and this year may be on course to be even deadlier, the United Nations said Monday.
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World
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Region
8/8/2024 6:02:13 PM
Human Rights Watch on Thursday accused Arab Gulf states of poorly protecting migrant workers exposed to severe heat stress as climate change threatens to make already-sizzling summers hotter and longer.
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Egypt
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Politics
8/7/2024 8:44:27 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi directed that the problems and challenges facing struggling factories be studied and that unconventional solutions be found to help and support the operation of these factories, preserving the investments made in them and protecting workers' rights.
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World
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War in Sudan
7/22/2024 8:21:32 PM
Sudan's 15-month war has led to indiscriminate violence and repeated attacks on health workers, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said in a report released on Monday.
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World
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Region
7/21/2024 5:08:09 PM
The Port of Eilat is facing mounting pressure as operations have come to a screeching halt because of the increasing Houthi attacks, leading to mass layoffs among its workers.
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Life & Style
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Health
7/15/2024 11:59:39 AM
Four years since the start of the pandemic, the virus mostly affects at-risk groups like health workers and people over 60.
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World
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War in Sudan
7/10/2024 10:41:40 PM
Large parts of war-torn Sudan are inaccessible to aid workers, a Red Cross official said Wednesday as devastating fighting between the army and paramilitaries rages on.
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World
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Region
7/1/2024 1:28:54 PM
Israel's national carrier El Al said Sunday its Warsaw to Tel Aviv flight was not allowed to refuel at Antalya airport after making an emergency landing to evacuate a passenger for medical reasons.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/30/2024 10:15:34 AM
Humanitarian workers have started moving tons of aid that piled up at a U.S.-built pier off the Gaza coast to warehouses in the besieged Palestinian territory, the United Nations said Saturday, an important step as Washington considers whether to resume pier operations after yet another pause because of heavy seas.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/27/2024 12:35:12 PM
After surviving Israel's horrific blasts and bombardments, patients in Gaza's few standing hospitals are dying in droves from infections resulting from a lack of protective gear and soap due to obstacles set by Israel to aid delivery.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
6/25/2024 7:18:28 PM
A UN humanitarian worker described the suffering she witnessed first-hand in Gaza, where she saw children mutilated and families bombed out of their homes, in an emotional testimony Tuesday.
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World
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Region
6/13/2024 2:49:20 PM
Most of the victims in a deadly blaze that engulfed a block housing immigrant workers were from India, Kuwait's foreign minister said on Thursday, raising the death toll to 50.
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World
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Region
6/11/2024 8:14:36 PM
The UN rights chief on Tuesday demanded that Yemen's Houthi rebels "immediately and unconditionally" release detained UN staff and other aid workers, flatly rejecting allegations that they were part of a spy network.
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World
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Region
6/10/2024 11:06:37 PM
Yemen's Houthi rebels on Monday said they had arrested a "spy network" operating under the cover of humanitarian organizations after aid workers including 11 UN staff were held last week.
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World
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Region
6/7/2024 2:32:14 PM
Yemen's Houthi rebels have detained more than a dozen aid workers, including United Nations staff, in an apparently coordinated sweep, a diplomatic source and a Yemeni NGO said Friday.
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Sports
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World
6/5/2024 7:30:35 PM
A global group of trade unions is accusing Saudi Arabia of abusing migrant workers in a complaint filed Wednesday with a UN-backed labor organization, which comes as FIFA prepares to confirm the oil-rich kingdom as host of the 2034 World Cup.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/30/2024 9:37:59 PM
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies asked state forces and combatants Thursday to respect its neutrality and work of delivering urgent humanitarian help to the most destitute in war and other high-risk zones, saying 24 of its aid workers had been killed so far this year mostly in the Gaza Strip.
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
5/27/2024 11:21:47 AM
Palestinian health workers said Monday that the Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 people and hit tents for displaced people in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and “numerous” others were trapped in flaming debris.
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World
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Africa
5/26/2024 12:11:27 PM
More than 670 people are believed to have died after a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official told AFP on Sunday as aid workers and villagers braved perilous conditions in their desperate search for survivors.
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World
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Region
5/26/2024 10:06:22 AM
Living in a tent in rebel-held northwestern Syria, Rudaina al-Salim and her family struggle to find enough water for drinking and other basic needs such as cooking and washing.
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