The authorities in Gaza on Tuesday evening, March 26, called for an end to aid being airdropped and encouraged an increase in deliveries by land. The authorities disclosed that a total of 12 people drowned while trying to retrieve airdropped aid that had fallen into the Mediterranean. People …
Read More »8-year-old boy from Mali travels 3,500 miles alone through Sahara desert before ending up in jail trying to cross Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe
An eight-year-old boy traveled 3,500 miles from Mali to Italy in search of a school after a jihadist group attacked his hometown. According to Mail Online, Oumar decided he had to leave his tiny village near Tambaga in the west of Mali after the attack on his hometown four months …
Read More »Aiding Gaza by Air and Sea Unlikely to Replace Land Routes
Palestinians who were wounded by Israeli gunfire while waiting for aid, according to health officials, rest on beds at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza this month.Credit…Kosay Al Nemer/Reuters The United Nations human rights office has documented more than two dozen attacks on Gazans waiting for desperately needed aid since January, …
Read More »First Aid Shipment to Arrive by Sea Is Set to Be Delivered Across Gaza
Children in the Gaza Strip are facing severe and rapidly worsening food deprivation, and an alarming number are suffering from the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, United Nations experts reported on Friday, in their most dire assessment yet of the unfolding crisis. About one in every 20 children in shelters …
Read More »Middle East Crisis: First Sea Shipment of Aid Departs for Gaza
The first sea shipment of food for Gaza left the Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Tuesday morning, officials said, the start of an untested maritime corridor to bring aid to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians whom the United Nations says are on the brink of starvation. The ship was pulling …
Read More »Europe and U.S. Plan to Supply Gaza by Sea, but Aid Groups Say It’s Not Enough
A day after President Biden announced plans for maritime aid delivery to the Gaza Strip, European leaders said Friday they would deliver aid by ship as early as the weekend. But aid groups and Gaza officials criticized shipments by air or sea as too cumbersome, urging that vastly more food …
Read More »Middle East Crisis: More Nations Join U.S.-Backed Effort to Send Aid to Gaza by Sea
Britain, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates will join the United States in opening a maritime route for humanitarian relief to Gaza, officials said on Friday, adding momentum to a complex and untested effort to bring urgently needed aid to the territory by sea. Ursula von der Leyen, …
Read More »Ukraine sinks another Russian warship, disabling a third of Putin's Black Sea Fleet
Ukraine claims it has now disabled a third of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet after its military intelligence said it sank another Russian warship in a sea drone attack off the coast of Crimea on Wednesday, February 14. Russia’s landing ship Caesar Kunikov was attacked with “MAGURA” V5 drones that …
Read More »Sun, sea and rock’n’roll: how Torremolinos got its groove back
I’m in Torremolinos. Yes, I know what you’re thinking – and you’d have a point. But I’m not here for the sun, cheap booze and a full English, although there are plentiful supplies of all the above. I’m here to relive my well-spent youth (albeit in a decidedly middle-aged fashion) …
Read More »Shell suspends all Red Sea shipments after Houthi attacks on tankers
Shell has suspended all Red Sea shipments after Houthi rebels launched strikes on oil tankers navigating the trade route, according to the Wall Street Journal. The report cited insiders who stated that the suspension was indefinite. According to Mail Online, Oil prices rose by around 1 …
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