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Ten neonates were murdered in a hospital fire in northern India

Ten infants were killed and seventeen injured after a fire tore through a hospital's neonatal section in northern India, according to the authorities. Brajesh Pathak, the deputy chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, stated on Saturday…

“Ready for cease-fire,” Hamas

Senior Hamas official Bassem Naim told AFP news agency that the militant group was ready to reach a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. The official is a member of Hamas' Doha-based political office. "If Israeli authorities present a…

Preventing crimes against journalists from going unpunished

It was ironic, sort of. At the time, the greatest number of journalists in Bangladesh's history had been charged with "murder," and four of them were currently incarcerated. At Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the UNESCO conference honoring the…

UN official: Gaza assistance access is “at a low point”

Deliveries to areas of the besieged north of the enclave are virtually impossible, putting assistance access in Gaza at a low point, a UN humanitarian official said on Friday. The comments contradict a prior assessment by the United…