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‘While famine is confirmed in Gaza City, we have warehouses full of food waiting to be allowed in,’ UN agency for Palestinian refugees saysThe head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for an urgent scale-up of evacuations from Gaza, warning that more than 15,600 patients remain in need of specialised care.In a post on X, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus thanked the UAE for supporting the latest evacuation of critically injured and sick patients but stressed that far more action is needed. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/23/israel-gaza-famine-middle-east-latest-news-updates Author : Caolán Magee Publish date : 2025-08-23 10:35:00 Copyright

The map will now be sent to governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, who is expected to quickly sign it into lawThe Texas senate has given final approval to a redrawn congressional map that gives Republicans a chance to pick up as many as five congressional seats, fulfilling a brazen political request from Donald Trump to shore up the GOP’s standing before next year’s midterm elections.It will now be sent to governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, who is expected to quickly sign it into law, however Democrats have vowed to challenge it in court. The Texas house of representatives approved the

Former coalminers join fellow museum staff in strike over pay which is due to last until mid-September“Who’d have thought we’d be doing this again?” Arthur Scargill said earlier this week, raising a laugh from the ex-miners standing in the picket line outside the National Coal Mining Museum.Staff at the Wakefield museum, many of them former coalminers, have walked out in a dispute over pay, and were joined on Thursday by the now 87-year-old former leader of the National Union of Mineworkers. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/23/miners-from-1980s-strikes-return-to-picket-line-at-mining-museum Author : Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent Publish date : 2025-08-23 05:00:00

More than 40 passengers evaluated or treated at hospitals with injuries ranging from head trauma to broken arms and legsAt least five people, including a child, were killed after a tour bus carrying 51 people crashed in upstate New York on its way back from a trip to Niagra Falls on Friday.The passengers were initially trapped in the wreckage, according to law enforcement, and then admitted to hospitals in the region where more than 40 of them were evaluated or treated with injuries ranging from head trauma to broken arms and legs. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/22/new-york-bus-crash-niagara-falls Author :