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A Palestinian child queues for food in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
US envoy says Israel-Hezbollah truce is ‘within our grasp’ as Gaza food crisis worsens after looting
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein says an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is “within our grasp” after meeting with officials in Lebanon.
 
FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit secure the area in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
French weapons system found in Sudan is likely violation of U.N. arms embargo, says Amnesty
Amnesty International said Thursday it has identified several UAE-made armoured personnel carriers on the ground in Sudan after verifying pictures shared on social media showing the vehicles captured or destroyed by the Sudanese army.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
US sanctions Sudanese paramilitary commander for his role in West Darfur violence
The United States has sanctioned a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary forces, saying he played a leading role in the ongoing violence against civilians in West Darfur. The U.S.
 
A family visits the the memorial marker of their loved one, Bar Lior Nakmuli, at the site of the Nova music festival, where hundreds of revelers were killed or kidnapped by Hamas, on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, marking one year in the Hebrew calendar since the attack, near Kibbutz Re'im, southern Israel near the Gaza Strip, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Israeli strike on Gaza shelter kills 17 as Blinken says cease-fire talks will resume
Palestinian officials say an Israeli strike on a school where displaced people were sheltering in the central Gaza Strip has killed at least 17 people. The strike came as U.S.
 
Houthi supporters raise a poster of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who killed by Israeli troops in Gaza, during an anti-Israel rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
In Israeli footage of the last minutes of Hamas leader’s life, some see a symbol of defiance
The world’s final glimpse of Hamas’ leader was through the lens of a hovering Israeli drone. It was rough and raw and showed him wounded and cornered and hunted down as he sat in a destroyed Palestinian home.
 
FILE -People line up in front of a bakery during a cease-fire in Khartoum, Sudan, May 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)
Fast-rising cholera cases across war-torn Sudan alarm the UN
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
Fighting in Sudan’s North Darfur kills at least 13 children, UNICEF says
UNICEF says that recent fighting between the Sudanese military and its rival paramilitary in Sudan’s North Darfur killed at least 13 children and injured four others.
 
Sudanese Camirata troupe dancers, who lost some of their relatives during the conflict in Sudan, Hoda Othman, right, and Kamal perform Al Saysaed dance from East Sudan during a rehearsal, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept.10, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
In music and dance, Sudanese performers transport refugee audiences back home
Sudanese musicians and dancers perform in Cairo for an audience that is mostly refugees from the war-torn country.
 
Houthi supporters raise a Hezbollah flag during an anti-Israel and anti-U.S. rally in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
Yemen’s Houthi rebels are looking to gain from continuing conflict in the Middle East
Since Israel intensified its campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been quick to show they’re an important player in the complex conflicts convulsing the Middle East.
 
FILE - The crew of the Israeli Galaxy ship, which was seized by the Houthi group, sit under a poster of the Houthi leader Abdul-Malik Badruldeen al-Houthi, on their ship in the port of Saleef, near Hodeidah, Yemen, Sunday, May 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)
ICRC visits the crew of hijacked ship for the 2nd time since being detained in Yemen
A delegation from the ICRC has visited, for the second time, the 25 crew members detained on Galaxy Leader, the Israeli vessel that was hijacked by Houthis late last year in response to Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.
 
Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan, speaks during a news conference at the Sudan Mission to the United Nations Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Sudan military offensive sparks new fighting in Khartoum as cholera outbreak worsens
Officials say new fighting has hit Sudan’s capital as the death toll jumps up from the country’s cholera outbreak.
 
CORRECTS IDENTIFICATION TO AHMED KOLLAB In this undated photo provided by Helmi Hirez, Mohamed (Medo) Halimy, left, Ahmed Kollab, middle, and Mohammed Hirez, right, stand on a beach in Gaza. (Helmi Hirez via AP).
A Palestinian TikTok star who shared details of Gaza life under siege is killed by Israeli airstrike
The 19-year-old Palestinian TikTok star Medo Halimy began making his “tent life” video series when he took refuge with his family earlier this year in a strip of southern Gaza that Israel has designated a humanitarian safe zone.
 
Egypt recovers 3 ancient artifacts, including a mummified head, found in the Netherlands
Egypt has recovered three ancient artifacts after they were smuggled out of the country and found in the Netherlands. Two of the items were for sale in an antiques shop, Egyptian authorities said on Tuesday.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
A dam collapse in eastern Sudan kills at least 30 people following heavy rains, a UN agency says
A U.N. agency says that the collapse of the Arbaat Dam in Sudan’s eastern Red Sea state over the weekend has flooded nearby homes and killed at least 30 people. The dam was hit by heavy rains.
 
In this Aug. 14, 2024 photo, ten-month-old Palestinian infant Mostafa Qadoura, who has already lost his eye and his immediate family to the horrors of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, poses at the New Administrative Capital Hospital, just outside Cairo, Egypt. Mostafa was among the 28 babies, most of whom were born premature, who were evacuated from the then-besieged Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and transported to Egypt late last year. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
A baby evacuated from Gaza lost an eye and most of his family in the war
When Mostafa Qadoura was a week old, an Israeli strike on his home in Gaza launched his crib into the air, sent shrapnel into his right eye that damaged it beyond repair, and killed one of his brothers.
 
FILE - Palestinians displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip, walk through a dark streak of sewage flowing into the streets of the southern town of Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on July 4, 2024. Health authorities and aid agencies are racing to avert an outbreak of polio in the Gaza Strip after the virus was detected in the territory's wastewater and three cases with a suspected polio symptom have been reported. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi, File)
Aid groups in Gaza aim to avert a polio outbreak with a surge of vaccinations
The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak. One case has been confirmed and others are suspected.
 
This image provided by Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, shows artifacts which were discovered inside tombs at the Tell al-Deir necropolis, in the Nile Delta town of Damietta, about 125 miles (200 km) north of Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of the trove, which includes gold pieces, bronze coins and amulets on July 25, 2024. ( Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities via AP)
A trove of artifacts from Egypt’s last dynasty has been found in 63 tombs
An antiquities official says a trove of artifacts from Egypt’s last dynasty has been found in 63 tombs in the Nile Delta area, and experts are working to restore and classify the finds.
 
A woman sorts through floodwaters near her damaged home near the city of Abu Hamdan in Northern Sudan on Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Samira Hassan)
Flooding restricts aid to areas of Sudan facing famine, UN says
The United Nations refugee agency says flood conditions in Sudan are hindering the delivery of aid to areas where many are already facing starvation and famine, including to a camp for those who have fled the ongoing fighting in North Darfur.
 
FILE - Egyptians walk past an exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The Egyptian pound is sliding against foreign currencies, inching closer to EGP 50 to the U.S. dollar on Monday, Aug. 5, after a recent hike in subway fares and fuel prices. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
Egypt’s currency edges higher against the US dollar after price hikes
Egypt’s local currency is sliding against the U.S. dollar after recent increases in fuel prices and subway fares.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
US warns a famine in Sudan is on pace to be the deadliest in decades as the world looks elsewhere
U.S. officials are warning that a newly confirmed famine in Sudan’s Darfur region is on pace to become the world’s worst in decades.
 
FILE - People gather to collect water in Khartoum, Sudan, on May 28, 2023, during a weeklong truce, brokered by the U.S. and the Saudis. A week of indirect talks involving Sudan's warring parties ended in Geneva on Friday, July 19, 2024, the U.N. secretary-general's personal envoy said. He described the discussions as an “encouraging initial step” in a complex process.(AP Photo/Marwan Ali)
Famine conditions in Sudan’s North Darfur are likely to continue through October, IPC warns
A global authority on food security has warned that famine conditions in Sudan have spread in the North Darfur region and are likely to continue through October due to the ongoing conflict that has torn the country for over 15 months.
 
FILE - Sudan's Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan speaks in Khartoum, Sudan, on Dec. 5, 2022. Sudan’s military said its top commander, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, survived a drone attack on a military graduation ceremony that killed five people in the country’s east. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)
Sudan’s military leader survives a drone strike that killed 5, says the army
Sudan’s military says its leader, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, has survived a drone attack on an army graduation ceremony he was attending in the country’s east.
 
Palestinian children displaced by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip take part in an entertaining activity organised by local activists, at a United-Nation run school, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, June 26, 2024. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to maintain their mental health with few resources and no safe places to recover after nine months of war. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Bedwetting, nightmares and shaking. War in Gaza takes a mental health toll, especially on children
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to maintain their mental health, with few resources and no safe places to recover after nine months of war.
 
This is a locator map for Libya with its capital, Tripoli. (AP Photo)
Libyan authorities discover two dozen unidentified bodies in a former stronghold of the IS group
A Libyan government agency says a mass grave containing two dozen unidentified bodies has been discovered in the coastal city of Sirte, which was once controlled by the Islamic State group.
 
Hassan Nofal, 53, who was displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, holds the keys to his home that he was forced to leave with his family at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 4, 2024. Over nine months of war between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian families in Gaza have been uprooted repeatedly, driven back and forth across the territory to escape the fighting. Each time has meant a wrenching move to a new location and a series of crowded, temporary shelters. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
House keys carry symbolic weight for Gaza families repeatedly displaced by war
Over nine months of war between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian families in Gaza have been uprooted repeatedly, driven back and forth across the territory to escape the fighting.
 
People shop in a supermarket in Sanaa, Yemen, before the Eid holiday on Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
Hunger grips Yemen even more. The UN says more than half of households aren’t eating enough
The United Nations food agency says more than half of households in Yemen are not eating enough due to poor economic conditions and a monthslong pause in food assistance to millions of people in the rebel-held north.
 
FILE - Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, on April 6, 2024. Families in Sudan’s embattled western region of Darfur finally received an emergency scale-up of food aid and nutrition supplies that are much needed to help avert looming famine, the U.N. food agency said Thursday June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Patricia Simon, File)
Darfur sees an increase in much needed food aid, but it’s still not enough to avert famine, UN says
The U.N.'s food agency says families in Sudan’s embattled western Darfur region have received an emergency increase in food aid that is needed to help avert looming famine.
 
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
Some life-saving food assistance entered South Darfur, UN says, but aid groups say more is needed
South Darfur has seen a slight increase in critical aid since the UN’s World Food Program delivered life-saving food and nutrition to some families across the violence-riddled western Sudanese state.
 
People shop in a supermarket in Sanaa, Yemen, before the Eid holiday on Saturday, June 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)
Fight for control of Yemen’s banks between rebels, government threatens to further wreck economy
Yemen’s Houthi rebels and its internationally recognized government are locked in a fight for control of the country’s banks that experts warn is threatening to further wreck an economy already crippled by nearly a decade of war.
 
Basima al-Batsh sits with her family ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. They were displaced from their home by the war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
A usually joyous Muslim holiday reminds families in Gaza of war’s punishing toll
Last summer, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip celebrated the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha the way it’s supposed to be. They hosted large family feasts, shared meat with those less fortunate, and surprised their children with new clothes and gifts.
 
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