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“This equates to an average of two health care workers killed every day,” British charity warns.

Aid group workers also taken as UN says it is trying to secure access to its personnel and clarify the situation around the detentions

Agency chief says compound has suffered a number of attacks with the lives of UN staff ‘at a serious risk’

The world might not be ready for another ‘devastating pandemic’ with global response to ‘health threats’ waning, according to a bombshell new US intelligence report

The Government has repeatedly refused to share its assessments on tensions between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) despite saying it is a safe country

Palestinian staff at Nasser Hospital, in Khan Younis in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip, were allegedly blindfolded, stripped and beaten by Israeli soldiers

The U.S. military said Sunday that it had flown in forces to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and allow nonessential personnel to leave.

The new edition of Mr Vince's book urges readers to "stop the Tories" to stop the climate crisis and argued Rishi Sunak's decision to axe key climate pledges had handed Labour an advantage

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has been forced to flee the country after mob boss Jimmy Cherizier, also known as Barbecue, freed 4,000 prisoners in an attempt to overthrow the government

An Israeli airstrike has killed at least 17 people in Khan Younis, and comes as the UN said there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape and “sexualised torture” on women in its southern Israel attacks on October 7

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A UN report found there is 'reasonable grounds to believe' Hamas militants committed sexual violence against hostages taken during the October 7 attacks, including rape

Ultra-processed food has been linked to more than 30 damaging and deadly health outcomes, including cancer, heart problems, type 2 diabetes and even depression and anxiety

The six worshippers and teacher, members of the Congregation of Brothers of Sacred Heart, were kidnapped from outside a school in the Haitian capital of Port Au Prince

Former President Donald Trump is set to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference among other leading figures in right-wing politics across the world

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was gifted the £350,000 Russian made Aurus limousine by Vladimir Putin as a show of the two leaders' 'special relationship'

Israel's ultimatum could see over one million Palestinian refugees facing a ground assault on Rafah if all the remaining hostages are not released by Ramadan - in three weeks' time

Experts believe that Disease X could result in 20 times more deaths than Covid - as it appears on WHO's shortlist of priority diseases, along with viruses like SARS, Ebola and Zika

Despite growing alarm from countries including the US, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu insists sending troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah is necessary to eliminate Hamas

Some of the most senior Church of England bishops including the Archbishop of Canterbury have demanded changes to Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Bill in a crunch week in the House of Lords

Professor Jon Yorke, Director of the Centre for Human Rights at Birmingham City University, described the execution of Kenneth Smith as a 'bad day for humanity'

Pentagon chiefs are planning a blitz on Iranian proxy group the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which hit a US outpost called Tower 22 in north east Jordan with a drone, also injuring 40

Kim Kyu-li, who now lives in Morden, south London, managed to escape across the border into China before eventually travelling across the globe to find her new home in the UK.

Three US army soldiers were killed and at least two dozen service personnel injured after an overnight drone attack, which struck the living quarters of a small US outpost in Northeast Jordan, say officials

Ex-UN weapons inspector David Albright said Iran may accelerate its already well developed nuclear weapons programme if the US decides to launch direct strikes on their territory.