EU asylum applications hit 7-year high
Deutsche Welle : More than 1.14 million people applied for asylum in the EU in 2023, according to annual figures released by the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA). It is the largest number...
International
Kenya, Haiti agree on cop deployment
Al Jazeera : Kenya and Haiti have signed a “reciprocal” agreement to deploy police from the East African country to lead a United Nations-backed law and order mission in the gang-riven Caribbean nation, Kenyan...
Gaza grave-digger longs to build houses again
Reuters : The mounting death toll from Israel’s military offensive on the Gaza Strip is a concrete, daily reality for Ibrahim Ahmed: instead of building houses as he did before the war, he digs...
Putin warns West of risk of nuclear war
Reuters : President Vladimir Putin told Western countries on Thursday they risked provoking a nuclear war if they sent troops to fight in Ukraine, warning that Moscow had the weapons to strike targets in...
Bird-feed loaf and a date wrapped in gauze: What children eat in Gaza
Reuters : After surviving on bitter loaves made from animal feed instead of proper flour, three young brothers who fled their home in Gaza City for a tent further south were tucking into a...
UNSC members demand Taliban rescind decrees
AP : More than two-thirds of the UN Security Council’s members demanded Monday that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the...
New Zealand set to scrap world-first tobacco ban
AFP : New Zealand will repeal on Tuesday a world-first law banning tobacco sales for future generations, the government said, even while researchers and campaigners warned of the risk that people could die as...
US airman dead after self-immolating outside Israeli embassy
AFP: A US airman has died after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington at the weekend in protest over the war in Gaza, the Air Force said Monday. The shocking...
Biden hopes for ceasefire in days as Israelis, Hamas take part in Qatar talks
Reuters: US President Joe Biden said on Monday (26 February) he hopes to have a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza start by next Monday as the warring parties appeared to close in...
Indian protesters determined to secure agrarian reforms
Reuters : Farmers in India’s northern Punjab state demanding higher prices for their crops from the national government are relying on young students to ensure the agitation’s momentum does not fizzle out. Eighteen-year-old Simranjeet...
‘31,000 Ukrainian troops killed’
BBC Online : Volodymyr Zelensky says 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed during Russia’s full-scale invasion. The Ukrainian president said he would not give the number of wounded as that would help Russian military...