The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

TORONTO - Eyewitnesses today confirmed reports that a pedestrian was walking in the road because a cyclist was riding on the sidewalk because a car was parked in the bike lane.

Elderly woman with Alzheimer’s, medical workers and children among 6,000 Palestinians held

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

Karam al-Ghussain, 9, and Lulu, 10, were fetching water from a nearby distribution station when an Israeli strike hit it, and them In Gaza, being a helpful, loving child can be a death sentence. Heba al-Ghussain’s nine-year-old son, Karam, was killed by an Israeli airstrike because he went to fetch water for the family, and her 10-year-old daughter, Lulu, was killed because she went to give Karam a hand. The siblings were waiting beside a water distribution station, holding jerry cans and buckets, when it was bombed last Sunday, killing six children and four adults and injuring 19 others, mostly children. Continue reading...

<article data-history-node-id="423638" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-navy-prepares-block-gaza-bound-flotilla" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-navy-prepares-block-gaza-bound-flotilla" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli navy prepares to block Gaza-bound flotilla</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="64" data-start="0">Israel’s navy is reportedly getting ready to intercept the Madleen flotilla as it heads towards Gaza on Sunday night, with military sources suggesting efforts are being made to avoid drawing widespread media attention.</p> <p data-end="400" data-start="288">The Israeli military says it has rehearsed multiple scenarios ahead of the planned operation to stop the vessel, the Israaeli daily Haaretz reported.</p> <p data-end="596" data-start="402">Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz earlier issued a warning to those on board, stating that he had ordered the army to use “any means necessary” to stop the flotilla from breaching the naval blockade.</p> <p data-end="834" data-start="598">“The State of Israel will not allow anyone to violate the naval blockade on Gaza, which aims to prevent the transfer of weapons to Hamas,” Katz said. He added, “Greta and her friends better turn back – because they will not reach Gaza.”</p> <p data-end="964" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="836">The flotilla’s organisers say their mission is humanitarian, aimed at challenging Israel’s ongoing siege of the coastal enclave.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout from the sudden U.S. cuts in aid.

Scott MacMillan was relieved when doctors were able to save the life of his daughter, Rosemary, who was in diabetic ketoacidosis. But when the hospital staff asked about insurance, he was filled with ...

Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

A Kitchener brewery has released a new brew for World Down Syndrome Day on Friday. The new brew was created in part by an employee of the brewery who has Down syndrome. A portion of the beer's sales w...