Columbus, OH

Israel said Sunday that senior Hamas military commander Rafa Salama, “one of the masterminds” of the October 7 attack that sparked the Gaza war, has been killed in a strike. A military statement said the Israeli air force “struck and eliminated the commander of Hamas’ Khan Yunis Brigade,...

Israel Says Top Hamas Commander Killed in Gaza Strike

The New Humanitarian

Nearly half a million people in the Gaza Strip continue to experience catastrophic levels of food insecurity, while “a high risk of famine persists” across the entire enclave, according to a new analysis by a group of UN-backed experts. Overall, the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC)...

High risk of famine persists across Gaza: new expert report

At the end of this year, the last UN peacekeepers are scheduled to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo after two difficult decades, a withdrawal that reflects broader changes underway to the international security system. The peacekeeping mission – known by its French acronym, MONUSCO – has been the...

The changing face of peacekeeping: What’s gone wrong with the UN?

Our editors’ weekly take on humanitarian news, trends, and developments from around the globe. Some 755,000 people face starvation in Sudan and there is a risk of famine in 14 parts of the country, according to new data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an expert group of UN agencies, aid groups, and governments that measures food crises. Nearly 26 million people are experiencing acute food insecurity, which is the worst level ever recorded by the IPC in Sudan. The fact that famine has not been declared by the IPC has been questioned by experts and analysts. Recent research by the Clingendael institute found that 2.5 million could die of hunger and related diseases by September; the US has said “every indication” suggests famine is underway; and famine expert Alex de Waal has said “there is no question” that hundreds of thousands are going to starve. The IPC’s Sudan chairwoman is a part of the army-dominated, UN-recognised government, whose policy of blocking aid into Rapid Support Forces-held areas is a key driver of the hunger crisis. Writing in Foreign Affairs, de Waal said the army “has a vested interest in avoiding a formal declaration of famine” because that would increase pressure on it to let aid flow.

Starvation in Sudan, protests in Kenya, and mixed signals on aid funding: The Cheat Sheet

Roba Abu Jibba looked shell-shocked as the doctor delivered his news: She couldn’t have the operation she desperately wanted. She nervously scrunched the fabric of her dress, fighting off the tears that began flooding her one remaining eye.

She managed to flee Gaza after half her family was killed in an Israeli strike. She blames Israel and Hamas for what happened

New York City, NY

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Cheryl E Preston

Yesterday was the third time this year that an ad stating Chelsea Clinton lives in a beautiful Virginia home popped up on my laptop. My computer did not warn me this was a dangerous site, so this time, I clicked on the link.

Chelsea Clinton is rumored to be living in Virginia but probably still in NYC

California State

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The HD Post

CALIFORNIA – Starting July 1, landlords will only be allowed to collect one month’s rent for the security deposit on a rental property. Assembly Bill 12, signed into law last October, says regardless of whether the residential property is unfurnished or furnished, only one month’s rent can be charged in addition to any rent for the first month paid on or before initial occupancy.

Law limiting security deposits goes into effect July 1

In a recent interview on The Daily Show, CNN’s Christiane Amanpour got herself into a bit of hot water when she claimed that “journalists are not on the ground in Gaza”. Challenged by host Jon Stewart, who pointed out that there are plenty of Palestinian reporters in the Strip, Amanpour clarified that she meant “independent Western journalists are not able to get there”.

Decolonise How? | Do we really need foreign correspondents?

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Bucks County Beacon

Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025 , a “presidential transition project” of the Heritage Foundation, helpfully lays out how a group of former Trump officials would like to transform the country into a right-wing dystopia where the rich thrive and the rest of us die aspiring to be rich.

Project 2025’s Plan to Gut Medicare and Medicaid

The World Food Programme is the conventional humanitarian sector’s most well-funded agency. What do its money troubles say about where emergency aid is headed?. This is another edition of Inklings, where we explore all things aid and aid-adjacent unfolding in humanitarian hubs, on the front lines of emergency response, or in the dark corners of online aid punditry.

Inklings | WFP and the search for value for money

Chicago, IL

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Shortly before 3 AM, people in the Chicago area may have felt their houses shake as a 3.4-magnitude earthquake occurred about 60 miles west of the city. (CHICAGO) The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a 3.4-magnitude earthquake around Somonauk, IL. Somonauk is in DeKalb and LaSalle Counties, 64 miles west of Chicago.

Did You Feel the Earthquake?

Thousands of Sudanese refugees in Egypt have been arbitrarily arrested and collectively expelled back to their war-torn country in violation of international law, a new report by Amnesty International has found. The Amnesty report supports the conclusions of an earlier investigation by The New Humanitarian and the Refugees Platform in...

Egypt forcibly deporting Sudanese refugees: Amnesty

Anika Jindal

The workforce is transforming due to automation, artificial intelligence, and shifts in market demands, resulting in the obsolescence of certain professions. Millions of people are left wondering whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) will replace the careers they are pursuing or not. We’ll explore jobs at risk of extinction due to automation and evolving industry demands, possibly disappearing shortly.

17 Jobs That Are Slowly Disappearing from the Workforce

British authorities on the remote island of Diego Garcia have repeatedly disregarded a court order allowing 60 Sri Lankans to leave the fenced camp where they’ve spent nearly three years, several of the asylum seekers and their lawyers told The New Humanitarian. The allegations emerge as a British judge,...

Tamils allege prison-like conditions on Diego Garcia ahead of unlawful detention hearing

Broward County, FL

Margate, FL

Edmond Thorne

MARGATE, FL. - A sophisticated lottery scam targeting vulnerable seniors across the United States has been uncovered, with a Margate man at its center. The elaborate scheme defrauded victims of approximately $9.5 million, leaving a trail of financial and emotional devastation in its wake.

Broward Man Arrested by Feds in $9.5 Million Lottery Scam: Targets Seniors Nationwide.

Denver, CO

David Heitz

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has become nationally known for moving more than 1,600 homeless people indoors since he has become mayor. Now he wants to place 200 people struggling with mental illness and/or addiction into treatment, according to an upcoming City Council committee agenda.

Denver mayor to send 200 people experiencing homeless to treatment

A large group of Sudanese refugees who have been stranded in a forest in a conflict-affected region of neighbouring Ethiopia for the past two months are facing “catastrophic” living conditions and continued attacks by local militiamen and bandits. After escaping the war in Sudan, several thousand refugees had...

Sudanese refugees trapped in Ethiopian forest call for ‘immediate evacuation’

Pennsylvania State

With an assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024, the U.S. experienced another violent episode in its increasingly polarized politics. Former President Trump, who’s about to formally become the GOP nominee for president in the 2024 election, survived the attempted assassination when, initial reports said, a bullet grazed his ear . But one rally attendee was killed , more spectators were injured and the suspected gunman is also dead. The Conversation’s politics editor, Naomi Schalit, spoke with University of Massachusetts, Lowell, scholar Arie Perliger after the event. Perliger offered insight from his study of political violence and assassinations. Given the stark political polarization in the U.S., Perliger said, “it’s not a surprise that eventually people engage in violence.”

‘One Inch from a Potential Civil War’? Trump Shooting a Close Call for American Democracy

An attack by suspected jihadists on the village of Djiguibombo in central Mali has resulted in dozens of civilian deaths, according to local government officials in the region. Officials told Reuters that around 40 people were killed in the raid, though other accounts suggest the death toll was half that...

Suspected jihadists kill dozens in restive Mali region

At least 89 people have died and as many as 72 are still missing following the latest deadly shipwreck on the Atlantic Ocean migration route between the west coast of Africa and the Spanish Canary Islands. The boat – a traditional fishing vessel – set sail from near the Senegal-Gambia...

160 dead or missing in Atlantic migrant crossing

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US Gaza pier to close after costing $230m for a day’s worth of aid

The United States will soon permanently shut down the floating pier it constructed earlier this year to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip, bringing to a...

US Gaza pier to close after costing $230m for a day’s worth of aid

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