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Sudanese refugees arriving to Chad find no food aid available

New refugee families arriving in the border town of Tine, Chad, from the Sudanese city of al-Fashir are finding little international humanitarian aid available to them. Their only source of food and water is donated by other refugees, so...

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Slovenia's assisted dying law heads to crucial referendum

Slovenia will on Sunday vote on a law that proposes legalizing assisted dying for some terminally ill adults, following other European countries that have made the change.

Reuters

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EU sanctions RSF second-in-command over "grave and ongoing atrocities"

The European Union has imposed sanctions on a senior leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces over what it called “grave and ongoing atrocities,” particularly related to its capture of the city of el-Fasher.

Africanews

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Report finds 32,000 West Bank residents forcibly displaced this year

Israel’s expulsion of tens of thousands of Palestinians from three West Bank refugee camps in early 2025 amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday.

CBC News

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Ending global hunger by 2030 costs less than 1% of military budgets

Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).

Africanews

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Fallout from Trump's praise Saudi crown prince's human rights record

President Trump showed off his close relationship with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman this week. CBS News White House reporter Aaron Navarro has more.

CBS News

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UN unable to access Sudan's al-Fashir after reports of atrocities

The United Nations remains unable to gain access to al-Fashir, the famine-stricken city in Darfur where witnesses have reported mass reprisals since a takeover by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces last month, U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher said.

Reuters

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Rights group accuses TotalEnergies of war crime complicity

A European human rights nonprofit on Tuesday accused TotalEnergies of complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearances allegedly carried out by government soldiers in Mozambique, filing a criminal complaint with the French a...

France 24

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Prosecutors seek life term for Darfur militia 'axe murderer'

An Internation Criminal Court sentencing heard on Monday (November 17) that prosecutors are seeking a life sentence for a man convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Darfur conflict more than two decades ago.

Reuters

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Sudan's Khartoum sees influx of Kordofan families fleeing RSF violence

Civilians who've fled Sudan’s Kordofan region are seeking refuge in the capital Khartoum, after a journey that often takes days.

Al Jazeera

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WFP decries atrocities in Sudan’s El-Fasher amid humanitarian crisis

The deputy executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP) expressed outrage over the "terrible atrocities" that recently took place in the city of el-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region.

Africanews

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UN officials warn of worsening situation in Sudan

Officials from the UN refugee agency, World Health Organization and UNMAS (United Nations Mine Action Service) on Friday delivered stark warnings over the deteriorating situation in Sudan.

Africanews

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Hundreds subject to torture, sexual violence following RSF takeover

International NGO Doctors without Borders, or MSF, says hundreds of people have been victims of torture and sexual violence since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized the city of El-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur State.

Africanews

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U.S. Intelligence raises concerns over Israeli tactics in Gaza

In a publicly released testimony, an Israeli soldier claims to have witnessed situations in which Palestinian civilians were allegedly used as human shields during operations in Gaza.

France 24

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UN rights council considers fact-finding mission on Sudan

The UN Human Rights Council was holding a special session on Friday (November 14) on the situation in al-Fashir, Sudan, in which states will consider a request for a fact-finding mission on reported mass killings as the city in Darfur fe...

France 24

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Sudan's unsung heroes, risk lives to feed and heal amid civil war

As Sudan's brutal civil war enters its second year, creating the world's worst humanitarian crisis, a generation of young volunteers has chosen to stay and confront the devastation, operating soup kitchens and medical aid stations to sav...

Africanews

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Hamas fighters, Red Cross resume search for Israeli captives’ bodies

The Red Cross and members of the armed wing of Hamas have launched another joint search for the bodies of captives in Gaza.

Al Jazeera

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Migrants deported to CECOT subject to 'constant beatings,' report says

A Human Rights Watch and Cristosal report details the alleged abuse that Venezuelan migrants were subjected to while detained at El Salvador's CECOT mega prison. CBS News' Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.

CBS America

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Satellite imagery shows horrors in Sudan

Satellite imagery is showing details of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan amid the country's ongoing civil war. People in al-Fashir were shot in the streets, targeted in drone strikes, crushed by trucks and abducted, witnesses have said a...

CBS News

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In Syria’s south, Bedouins see little hope of return

Sectarian violence shattered generations of fragile coexistence between Bedouins and Druze in Syria’s Sweida province in July. It was some of Syria's worst bloodshed since longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad was toppled. Many thousands fled. ...

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Seeping sewage and piles of garbage are making Gazans sick

Stinking mounds of fly-covered garbage lie strewn throughout Gaza amid the rubble from Israel's devastating military campaign, spilling out along roadsides and between the tents where most of the shattered enclave's people live. With a c...

Reuters

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Palestinians continue to endure hardships in Gaza despite ceasefire

Palestinians in Gaza struggle as food supplies remain restricted and homes lie in ruins despite a ceasefire.

Al Jazeera

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South Sudan: Food security experts warn of worsening hunger crisis

In a new report, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification warned than half the country's population is expected to face severe hunger in 2026

Africanews

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Injured, malnourished survivors from Sudan's al-Fashir recount escape

At a clinic in Sudan's North Darfur, patients described a desperate escape from the city of al-Fashir, which was captured last week by the Rapid Support Forces last week.

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Qatar's emir condemns atrocities committed in Sudan

There have been widespread reports of summary executions, massacres, sexual violence, and attacks on humanitarian workers by RSF fighters in al-Fashir.

Africanews

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Global hunger monitor confirms famine in two Sudanese cities

It says there is famine in al-Fashir, which was recently captured by the paramilitary RSF, and in the town of Kadugli, in the South Kordofan state.

Africanews

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Cuban workers in Canada say their government seized most of their pay

Cuban workers sent to Canada in a joint mining venture are accusing their government of human trafficking and exploitation, saying they were forced to hand over most of their wages, leaving them with barely enough to survive.

CBC News

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Palestinian-German efforts to help the people of Gaza

A group of Palestinian-German engineers and doctors in Germany are doing what they can to help the people of Gaza, gathering lifesaving aid and working to bring injured children to Germany.

DW News

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Survivors escaping violence in Sudan face dire humanitarian needs

Sudan’s conflict is worsening with new reports of attacks and atrocities. Witnesses say RSF fighters burned the bodies of Sudanese soldiers and civilians after they seized control of el-Fasher on Sunday. Others say their children were ki...

Al Jazeera

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UN says hundreds may have been executed in seized Sudanese city

Hundreds of Sudanese civilians and unarmed fighters may have been killed during the Sudanese paramilitary forces' capture of the long-besieged city of Al-Fashir, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.

Reuters