WFP warns Somalia faces worsening malnutrition crisis without urgent aid
Somalia is facing a severe malnutrition crisis and urgently needs additional humanit...
On Monday (8 September), two Palestinian gunmen opened fire at a bus stop on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Police described the incident as a “terrorist attack,” reporting that six people were killed and several others injured.
It is one of the deadliest attacks the city has seen in recent years.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that “innocent civilians, women, men and children were brutally murdered and wounded in cold blood on a bus in Jerusalem.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the targeting of civilians on both sides.
The shooting occurred against the backdrop of nearly two years of conflict in Gaza, where Israel’s campaign against the militant group Hamas has left the territory devastated. In the West Bank, Palestinians continue to face tightened military restrictions and a rise in attacks by Jewish settlers.
Hamas, however, praised the two Palestinians it described as “resistance fighters” for carrying out the attack. Another Palestinian militant group, Islamic Jihad, also commended the shooting. Neither group formally claimed responsibility for the attack.
United Nations Secretary-General’s spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said the Secretary-General strongly condemned the attack, offered condolences to the victims’ families and wished a full and speedy recovery to those injured.
The U.S military said it carried out retaliatory strikes on Iran on Thursday (7 May). Meanwhile, Iran's Joint Military Command accused the U.S. of breaching the ceasefire, by striking an Iranian oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz and launching attacks on several Iranian cities.
The U.S. and Iran exchanged fire in and around the Strait of Hormuz, though both sides signalled they did not want escalation. The clashes come as Washington awaits Tehran’s response to a proposed deal to end the war while leaving key disputes, such as Iran’s nuclear programme, unresolved for now.
Singapore has isolated and is testing two of its residents who travelled aboard a cruise ship linked to a deadly hantavirus outbreak, the Communicable Diseases Agency (CDA) said on Thursday.
Efforts to end the U.S.-Iran war appeared to stall as the two sides exchanged fire in and around the Strait of Hormuz. A reported CIA assessment suggested Tehran could withstand a U.S. naval blockade for months despite mounting sanctions and renewed Gulf attacks.
Ukraine’s military said it struck a Russian Karakurt-class small missile carrier in the Caspian Sea near Russia’s Dagestan region on Thursday. The extent of the damage is still being assessed, according to Kyiv.
Somalia is facing a severe malnutrition crisis and urgently needs additional humanitarian funding to prevent conditions deteriorating further, the World Food Programme has warned.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed to carry on as leader on Friday (8 May) after his ruling Labour Party suffered heavy losses in local elections. Labour lost hundreds of councillors across the country, as some figures in the party said he should stand down.
Indonesian rescue teams have located two Singaporeans who went missing after Mount Dukono erupted on Friday (8 May) on the island of Halmahera, though authorities say it remains unclear whether they are alive.
Health authorities are monitoring a widening hantavirus alert after new suspected cases emerged in Spain and on a remote South Atlantic island, days after an outbreak on a cruise ship left three people dead and several others infected.
The U.S. Defense Department has released dozens of previously classified files on unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) on Friday (8 May), following an order from President Donald Trump. U.S. officials described as a push for “unprecedented transparency”.
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