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A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians. The trucks that will roll off the pier project installed Thursday will face intensified fighting, Hamas threats to target any foreign forces and uncertainty about whether the Israeli military will ensure that aid convoys have access and safety from attack by Israeli forces. Samantha Power, head of the ...

As the Israel-Hamas war continues, experts and aid organizations have said a humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Gaza following Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 and Israel's military response. At the beginning of the war, Israel implemented a blockade, severely limiting the amount of food and other supplies into Gaza, resulting in extreme shortages, according to aid officials. A top U.S. humanitarian official, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administ...

CAIRO — The trucks carrying aid for the Gaza Strip stop for exhaustive inspections by Israeli authorities. They can pass through two border crossings only during limited hours. Inside the territory, vehicles travel over a landscape of rubble and ruined roads to distribute the aid to desperate, hungry crowds. These obstacles are contributing to a growing humanitarian crisis, according to aid officials and two U.S. senators who recently visited Rafah, one of the two crossings into Gaza that...

A rainstorm with heavy winds Sunday ravaged Uruguay, not least the southwest department of Colonia, said officials, confirming two deaths from the disaster, including a child.

In 2021, the state Transport Department released a list of ministers and officials who were entitled to use beacon lights atop their vehicles during emergency duties.

An end to the Black Sea grains deal would hit the Horn of Africa hard, aid officials said on Monday, warning that another hike in food prices would add to the tens of millions of people facing hunger. Moscow has been threatening to walk away from the deal known as the Black Sea grain initiative - brokered by the United Nations and Turkey in July last year - if obstacles to its own grain and fertilizer shipments are not removed. Famine in parts of the Horn of Africa was averted this year as the...

On and still shining a light into the darkness is erdal. quentin sommerville, bbc news, antakya. but across the border, in northern syria, its in the northwest of syria, the last rebel—held enclave, that aid officials tell us was the worst hit in this earthquake. but areas in the north under syrian government control have also been hit. that includes the major syrian city of aleppo. the correspondent for the bbc�*s arabic service, assaf aboud, was able to obtain government permission to visi...

Bbc news, antakya. but across the border, in northern syria, its in the northwest of syria, the last rebel—held enclave, that aid officials tell us was the worst hit in this earthquake. but areas in the north under syrian government control have also been hit. that includes the major syrian city of aleppo. the correspondent for the bbc�*s arabic service, assaf aboud, was able to obtain government permission to visit aleppo and weve translated his report for you. translation: we are now in th...

No injuries, hazmat situations or fires have been reported, according to the Milam County Sheriff's Office.

That crossing. so many different versions. we will try to get you more on the situation on the ground. i can tell you earlier today we spoke to people on the ground in eastern aleppo. activists very concerned we were going to see something like this. very fragile deal. we heard from aid officials. this could happen. >> so many hopes. tell me how many refugees have been evacuated at this point. what is their situation? >> reporter: what we know, christine, the numbers be -- we got different figur...