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A Hamas delegation has arrived in Cairo and Egyptian state media say there has been "noticeable progress" in cease-fire talks with Israel. But an Israeli official downplayed the prospects for a full end to the war.

A Hamas delegation has arrived in Cairo and Egyptian state media say there has been "noticeable progress" in cease-fire talks with Israel. But an Israeli official downplayed the prospects for a full end to the war.

A Hamas delegation is in Cairo and Egyptian state media say there has been “noticeable progress” in cease-fire talks for Gaza. But Israel hasn’t sent a delegation to Cairo and

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The U.S. expects to have arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering aid this month via a new U.S.-backed sea route.

Violence around the city of al-Fashir in Darfur, Sudan, has blocked a recently opened humanitarian corridor from Chad and time is running out to prevent starvation in the vast region, the UN World Food Program said on Friday, according to Reuters. Attacks around al-Fashir, the Sudanese army's last holdout in Darfur and home to some 1.6 million residents, have led to dire warnings of a new wave of mass displacement and inter-communal conflict in Sudan's year-old war.

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The U.S. expects to have on-the-ground arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering food, treatment for starving children and other urgent assistance by early to mid-month, an official said.

The United States expects to have on-the-ground arrangements in Gaza ready for humanitarian workers to start delivering food, treatment for starving children and other urgent assistance by early to mid-month when the American military expects to complete a floating pier for the aid, an official with the U.S. Agency for International Development said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top U.N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory. Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent […]