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2 weeks ago | 
arab.news | Ephrem Kossaify
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given India’s military “operational freedom” to respond to a deadly attack in Kashmir last week, a senior government source told AFP Tuesday, after New Delhi blamed it on arch-rival Pakistan.
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2 weeks ago | 
arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify
NEW YORK CITY: In his four decades in the humanitarian field, Filippo Grandi, the UN high commissioner for refugees, says he has never seen the situation so dire for displaced people owing to the current environment of aid cuts and political neglect. Speaking to Arab News in New York City, Grandi painted a grim picture of the state of the global displacement response in the middle of a rash of conflicts and the failure of the very systems designed to protect the world’s most vulnerable.
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3 weeks ago | 
arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify
NEW YORK CITY: The UN’s top envoy for Libya, Hanna S. Tetteh, warned the Security Council on Thursday that continued political gridlock and institutional fragmentation risk plunging the country further into instability, unless urgent compromise can be achieved and a unified path to elections agreed.
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1 month ago | 
arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify
NEW YORK CITY: Nearly two years into the civil war in Sudan, the humanitarian crisis continues to spiral, with more than 13 million people now forcibly displaced and human rights violations escalating, the UN Refugee Agency warned on Monday. “This is a very, very sad milestone,” said Mamadou Dian Balde, the agency’s regional director for East and Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes.
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1 month ago | 
arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify
NEW YORK CITY: South Sudan is grappling with an unprecedented humanitarian crisis as escalating violence in the country, particularly in the conflict-ridden Greater Upper Nile region, exacerbates a dire situation of food insecurity, the UN’s food agency said on Wednesday. The World Food Program warned that nearly 7.7 million people, more half of the country’s population, are currently facing crisis, emergency or catastrophic levels of hunger.
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1 month ago | 
arabnews.jp | Ephrem Kossaify
NEW YORK CITY: The UN secretary-general evoked several provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention on Tuesday to remind Israeli authorities of an occupying power’s “unequivocal” obligations under international law. The obligations Antonio Guterres highlighted included ensuring the welfare of the civilian population, the supply of food and medicine, and the maintenance of public health services. “None of that is happening today,” he said. “No humanitarian supplies can enter Gaza.
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1 month ago | 
arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify
NEW YORK CITY: Basel Adra, the Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary film “No Other Land,” has garnered global attention for his compelling portrayal of the hardships faced by Palestinians in the West Bank, particularly his home region of Masafer Yatta. The film chronicles the ongoing violence against, and forced displacement of, Palestinians at the hands of Israeli forces and settlers in an area designated a restricted military zone by Israel since the 1980s.
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1 month ago | 
arab.news | Najia Houssari |Ephrem Kossaify
NEW YORK CITY: The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday expressed deep outrage over the killing of 15 medical and aid workers in Gaza on March 23, as he warned that “there is a high and increasing risk that atrocity crimes are being committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.” Volker Turk called for an “independent, prompt and thorough” investigation into the deaths which, he said, raise “further concerns over the commission of war crimes by the Israeli military.” The...
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1 month ago | 
arabnews.jp | Ephrem Kossaify
Organization’s special envoy for Syria says Israel’s actions ‘undermine efforts to build a new Syria at peace with itself and the region, and destabilize Syria at a sensitive time’ Israeli defense minister warns Syria’s interim president he will ‘pay a very heavy price’ if he allows ‘forces hostile to Israel’ to enter the country NEW YORK CITY: The UN on Thursday condemned “repeated and intensifying military escalations” by Israel in the Syrian Arab Republic, including airstrikes that...
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1 month ago | 
arabnews.com | Ephrem Kossaify
NEW YORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday urged both South Sudan’s leadership and the international community to act swiftly to prevent further devastation in the war-torn country, warning that ethnic and political targeting by security forces could spiral into a broader regional conflict.
