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Damage to property from sand and silt deposited after the flood near Teesta Bazar in West Bengal. Residents in this region have not received any meaningful compensation for their losses. Credit: Ashutosh Kumar/IPS by Tanka Dhakal, Diwash Gahatraj (kathmandu, nepal & sikkim, india) Friday, April 26, 2024 Inter Press Service KATHMANDU, …

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Wednesday that protests at U.S. universities against Israel’s war in Gaza were “horrific” and should be stopped, using his first public comments on the subject to castigate the student demonstrators and portray them as antisemitic. Mr. Netanyahu’s comments could harden division over …

Hamas released a video on Wednesday apparently showing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli American dual citizen who has been held hostage since the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel. It appeared to be the first time that Mr. Goldberg-Polin, who was grievously injured in the attack, has been shown to be …

The Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Prof. Zacchaeus Adangor (SAN) has resigned from the Rivers State Cabinet following his redeployment to the Ministry of Special Duties by Governor Siminalayi Fubara.   Recall that Adangor, who is among core loyalists of the Minister of FCT, Nyesom Wike, had resigned last …

U.N. officials and some donor nations are renewing calls to revive funding for the main U.N. agency aiding Palestinians, after a review found that Israel had not provided evidence to support its claim that many employees of the agency are members of terrorist organizations. More than a dozen countries, including …

The scale of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza — and the difficulties faced by aid workers responding to it — goes “beyond what has been seen before” in other conflicts, the United Nations said on Wednesday. The cost of addressing it may be similarly staggering. The U.N. said its agencies …

Manchester United have launched an internal investigation into their debilitating injury at the club this season.      United have suffered continuous injury setbacks this season with under-pressure boss Ten Hag often unable to field his strongest line-up for some matches.      The crisis deepened this week with defenders Martinez and Lindelof …

Israel’s bombing of an Iranian Embassy building in Damascus, which killed senior Iranian military and intelligence officials, is a major escalation of what has long been a simmering undeclared war between Israel and Iran. Iran promises major retaliation, and the danger of a miscalculation is ever-present. But given the stakes …

At least seven officers overseeing Iran’s covert operations in the Middle East were killed in Damascus on Monday, when Israeli warplanes struck part of the Iranian Embassy complex in the Syrian capital, according to a statement by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards. The strike killed three generals in Iran’s Quds Force, the …

Relations between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel appear to have sunk to a new low, with both men pressed hard by domestic politics and looming elections. Mr. Biden is facing outrage from his own supporters and global allies about the toll of civilian deaths in the …