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Police, protesters clash at Hong Kong airport after flights halted for second day

August 14, 2019

In the future, only the rich will be able to escape the unbearable heat from climate change. In Iraq, it’s already happening

August 11, 2019

What Israel’s Demolition of 70 Palestinian Homes Was Really About

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The Netherlands and Switzerland cut funding to UNRWA after an internal investigation report was leaked to the media [File: AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra]

Do not punish Palestinian refugees for UNRWA dysfunction

Earlier this week, an internal ethics report about the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees was leaked to both...

TOPSHOT - A Syrian refugee from the informal Rukban camp, which lies in no-man's-land off the border between Syria and Jordan in the remote northeast, walks in the rain, as she shelters a young child outside a UN-operated medical clinic immediately on the Jordanian-side on March 1, 2017.
Conditions in the Rukban camp deteriorated sharply after Jordan sealed its border almost a year prior, following a cross-border jihadist attack that killed seven Jordanian border guards in June 2016. / AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP/Getty Images)

Thousands are trapped in a desert settlement in Syria, near a US military base

By Alessandria Masi Shukri Shehab and his wife have not slept in two nights. Their three-week-old granddaughter will not stop...

As well as being a target for Israeli snipers, Gaza’s journalists are finding it increasingly difficult to find regular work. Ashraf Amra APA images

Gaza’s media feel the squeeze

When Sami Mushtaha and Reem Abu Hassira presented the 20 January edition of “Youth Hour,” a programme on Al-Quds TV...

Young Palestinians are turning to social media to tell their stories and battle misleading Israeli narratives. Samar Abo Elouf Reuters/Newscom

Palestinian youth fight back on social media

When National Geographic Abu Dhabi in April posted a seemingly benign image of Nubian ibex climbing cliffs on its Facebook and Twitter...

Priest Husni Cohen gestures as he talks of the Samaritan community. Dwindling numbers and an unstable political situation have left Samaritans, one of the world’s oldest religious communities, in fear of their survival. Jaclynn Ashly

Between a rock and a hard place

Priest Yousef Cohen, 70, slowly limped along the quiet streets of Kiryat Luza, a Samaritan village nestled atop the green...

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