Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said 440 migrants, including 8 women and 30 children were rescued in international waters off Malta, two days later a charity warned that the boat was facing danger.
Selective and partial disembarkation "cannot be considered legal under maritime law conventions," says Doctors Without Borders.
Medical team "started hearing people screaming, a lot of screaming … Everybody was crying; women, children and men," says aid group coordinator on island.
Most of the victims were not directly involved in gangs, UN human rights office says, adding that there have also been reports of sexual violence.
Gang-related kidnappings in Haiti increased 180 percent in the past year, with 655 of them reported to police, according to a report by the United Nations Security Council.
Saudi-led coalition has denied the responsibility, saying that Houthis hadn’t reported the site in Saada province as needing protection from air strikes.
Amid protests by Palestinians, Israel started a renovation project that will result in the seizure of the religious site split between Jews and Muslims.
Doctors Without Borders says it is “horrified by the brutal murder” of three colleagues in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the latest attack on humanitarian workers helping civilians in the deadly conflict there.
The Arab world’s poorest country has been in the midst of a perpetual humanitarian disaster for years but the situation can get even worse.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says 26.6 percent of children screened at remote clinics in recent weeks throughout Ethiopia’s northwest region of Tigray were malnourished.
The global pandemic has been a boon for the pharmaceutical industry, which stands to make billions. But first, it's trying to throttle poorer countries’ access to the vaccine.
Hundreds of shaken survivors of the March 24 Daesh attack in Palma have streamed into the neighbouring town of Mueda and provincial capital Pemba, where they arrived via boat, foot and plane.
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