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Last batch of joint aid lands in Yemen amid UN funding cuts

The last of three large shipments of medical supplies landed in Yemen on Friday, organizers of the cargo flights said, following a joint initiative by the world organization and multinational corporations to boost the war-devastated country's health care system as it battles the coronavirus....

Draft UN resolution calls for three aid crossings to Syria

A draft UN resolution would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid to Syria’s mainly rebel-held northwest and reopen an Iraqi crossing to the northeast to deliver medical supplies for the COVID-19 pandemic. Russia, which insisted the Iraqi crossing be...

India's Modi forced to rethink China ties in wake of clashes

The recent border clashes between India and China in the Western Himalyas that led to the death of 20 Indian soldiers earlier this week, have prompted a hardening of anti-China sentiment in India that the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, cannot ignore. India has traditionally been a non-aligned...

Palestinians fear displacement from an annexed Jordan Valley

For generations, the people of Fasayil herded animals on the desert bluffs and palm-shaded lowlands of the Jordan Valley. Today, nearly every man in the Palestinian village works for Jewish settlers in the sprawling modern farms to the north and south. The grazing lands to the west and...