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10 months, 4 weeks ago

Top UN court stops short of ordering Israel to cease Gaza attacks, warns it 'must prevent genocide'

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In short: The court agreed with several aspects of South Africa's case, but did not grant its key request: an immediate ceasefire. The United Nations' top court has stopped short of ordering Israel to cease its attacks on Gaza, as it considers allegations of genocide made by South Africa. The court did not rule on South Africa's accusations Israel has …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Gazans undertake a perilous journey to Egypt that ends with a single step through the narrow Rafah crossing

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Shivering in the darkness, Sahar Ramy pulled a small pink suitcase behind her as she followed her family through the dawn and towards freedom. Members of the Ramy family wait for their transport on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing after leaving Gaza. Egyptian aid workers wait to unload a plane of supplies destined for Gaza at Al Arish …

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1 year, 2 months ago

When Hamas stormed into an Israeli dance festival, some fled, some hid, and some vanished

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Ahuva Maizel last spoke to her daughter Adi at 7:40am on Saturday — a brief phone call she can't stop replaying in her mind. Screaming, gunshots in six-hour ordeal Billed as "a journey of unity and love", the Supernova festival attracted reportedly 4,000 people to a rural site roughly an hour south of Tel Aviv. "People were getting shot in …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict in Russia’s backyard has exposed Vladimir Putin’s growing weakness

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Deep in the mountains of the Karabakh range, worn thin by its grinding offensive in Ukraine, Russia's armed forces last month found themselves caught in another war. Armenia and Azerbaijan hold competing claims to Nagorno-Karabakh, which was kept relatively under control during the Soviet Union's rule, but spilled over into conflict once it collapsed and the enclave declared independence. Mr …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Search for Morocco earthquake survivors continues as flattened towns remain cut off

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Abdarazak Abou Aalam skips down the street past piles of rubble, until he reaches what remains of his neighbour's house. The boy's village of Moulay Brahim, in Morocco's High Atlas Mountains, was devastated by Friday's magnitude-6.8 earthquake, which has so far killed more than 2,400 people and injured even more. "We have some dead people who need to be moved …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Is paradise being lost? Raging wildfires on the Greek island of Rhodes gives southern Europe a terrifying glimpse into the future

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For Kyriakos Peristeridis, it felt like paradise lost in a matter of hours. The Melbourne cafe manager has been working on the Greek island of Rhodes for the European summer, pulling shifts at the Rodos Princess Beach Hotel in the resort village of Kiotari. 'We saw hell right in front of us' Mr Peristeridis is one of 20,000 people who …

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1 year, 9 months ago

When Russia took control of Zaporizhzhia's nuclear power plant, Ukrainian technicians were forced to flee, or work at gunpoint

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The warfare taking place around Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant has prompted warnings of possible disaster — but workers say the scenes inside the station are just as alarming. For months, mostly Ukrainian workers have kept the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine operating while living and working under Russian occupation. Still, "the situation regarding the nuclear plant is …

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1 year, 9 months ago

With Russian forces closing in, Ukrainians made a deadly gamble to escape Bakhmut

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As Russian troops closed in on Bakhmut, saving citizens from the besieged Ukrainian city became a deadly gamble. "You can not only hear the explosions constantly, but they fall all around you," he told the ABC from outside an evacuation centre at the conclusion of another mission into Bakhmut. In recent weeks, the Ukrainian army says the "most prepared assault …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Three women joined 'the billionaire's battalion' of fighters in Ukraine. Only two survived the year

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In the cold winter wind, dozens of Ukrainian flags fly high, marking fresh military graves in a Kharkiv cemetery. All three women joined the Khartia Battalion, a volunteer unit that fights with Ukraine's army, started and partially funded by Kharkiv local Vsvelod Kozhemiako, one of Ukraine's wealthiest men. Khartia roughly translates to the "charter unit", but some have dubbed it …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Somalia is on the brink of famine, with children dying of malnutrition and hundreds of thousands of families displaced

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Kadjiay Moalim Mayow trudged through the dawn with her four children in tow, her knotted stomach driving her feet mechanically underneath. On the precipice of famine, Somalia is already in dire straits "I've never seen anything like it," says Paul Healy from the Irish charity Trocaire, which runs several healthcare clinics in the southern Gedo region. "The number of children …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Vladimir Putin could benefit if a row between Serbia and Kosovo over licence plates spills into another European conflict

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Driving a faded blue taxi, Vojislav Miljkovic circles the north side of the bridge in Mitrovica, in northern Kosovo, looking for fares near the busy main square. The radio blares Serbian ballads as he passes Serbian signs and Although Mr Miljkovic lives and works in Kosovo's divided city of Mitrovica, he may as well be living in Serbia. Kosovo and …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Turkey launched an unusual experiment to fight inflation by cutting interest rates. This is how it spectacularly backfired

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While much of the world anxiously waits to see if central banks will keep raising interest rates to combat a post-pandemic surge in inflation, Turkey is bucking the global trend. He has fired three central bank governors in four years for attempting to raise interest rates, and described anyone who draws a link between rates and inflation as "illiterates and …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Russian troops came to kidnap and murder this Ukrainian village leader. Here's how she outsmarted them

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Halyna Chernyshova never believed her quiet Ukrainian town would be taken by Russian soldiers. These dark, muddy fields were supposed to protect the locals from Russia's advance, but not long after the war broke out they became "trapped," Halyna tells the ABC. Halyna Chernyshova says it was her fellow villagers who kept her alive, and she is proud that "no-one …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Russian soldiers descended on Bohdanivka days after the Ukraine war began. What followed was weeks of horror

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Within days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, soldiers claimed Serhii Tepliuk's small village. A doctor's nightmare confronting the 'worst' wounds One of the senior doctors at the Brovary Central Hospital, close to Bohdanivka, said that in the last six weeks he has "seen the worst wounds in my 20-year career". "The war wounds will continue for years … the wounds …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Vladimir Putin desperately wants to claim the 'pearl of the Black Sea' but Odesa has become a fortress

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On an intersection in the centre of Odesa, near an upmarket hotel and across from a high-end clothing store, a wall of sandbags, barbed wire and steel tank traps block the road to the city's famous opera house. "It doesn't matter if you're a woman or you're a man," said Viktoria Melnyk, a 23-year-old tour guide from an underground tunnel …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Smuggled across Ukraine, these vulnerable children are secretly hiding in a school to escape the horrors of war

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The Ukrainian children were bundled into buses just after midnight from towns in the north and east of the country and shuttled to a railway station to begin their long journey west. "The children know that there is a war," said Olha Kotovska, a Ukrainian school administrator overseeing the children during their stay in Lviv. Marching down the aisle of …

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2 years, 10 months ago

As Russia inches closer to war, the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has become a sanctuary

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On a freezing winter's morning in downtown Lviv, a small crowd of passers-by form around three Ukrainian soldiers on a street corner holding microphones and playing a keyboard. As Russian tensions along Ukraine's borders reach boiling point, Lviv has become something of a sanctuary for diplomats, businesspeople and Ukrainians from other parts of the country fleeing all-out war. "I still …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Poland is ready for an influx of Ukrainian refugees as Russian invasion threat looms

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The bus carrying more than a dozen Ukrainians makes its way each day the short distance across the Polish border before pulling up outside a fluorescent-lit supermarket on the other side. For years, those residing on either side of the border between Poland and Ukraine have shared close ties — by some counts, up to 2 million Ukrainians already call …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Women's rights activist shares her family's harrowing escape from the Taliban to Australia

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In an Islamabad hotel room surrounded by her family, Shafiqa Sadat packed her bags for Australia. "The Taliban said all the civil society workers, the women's activists, we have their pictures, and if we can identify them, then they will be killed," she told the ABC. Shafiqa said militants started to target her extended family – burning down one of …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Greece's wildfires may be dying down on the island of Evia, but white-hot anger rises in its place

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As the fire front circled his village, Stavros Miliotis did not notice the dozens of cuts across his limbs or his lungs filling with ash. An island devoured by flames Evia has been burning for two weeks, with blazes incinerating nearly 50,000 hectares across the island, tearing through tinder-dry forest during the worst heatwave in more than three decades. Although …

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3 years, 7 months ago

On either side of the Gaza-Israel borderline, the impact of the conflict is very different

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Over the past week, Bissan Ouda's conversations with her friends over messaging apps have been reduced to a series of blunt questions and statements. Since the start of last week, Hamas militants in Gaza have been firing intense rocket barrages at Israel and the Israeli military has been pounding Gaza with air strikes. Loading Instagram content Only about 20 kilometres …

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