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Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), said on Thursday that the worsening famine in Gaza cannot be resolved by air-dropping aid, stating: “We can’t airdrop our way out of an unfolding famine. Not in Gaza.” 

She explained that around 500,000 people in Gaza are suffering from hunger, stressing that the only way to deliver food to them, at scale, is by land.

“we can’t afford to wait—Gaza is out of food and out of…

KUWAIT (Reuters) -Kuwait’s Oil Minister Tariq Al-Roumi said on Thursday that OPEC is closely monitoring global oil supply, demand trends, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on Russian oil.

“Through OPEC, we are monitoring the market in terms of supply and demand, and we are monitoring the U.S. President’s statements,” Al-Roumi told reporters, adding that he expects oil prices to be below $72 per barrel.

The minister described the market as healthy, with demand growing at a…

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has confirmed that Israel has bombed more than 500 schools sheltering displaced people across the Gaza Strip since October 2023.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the organisation said: “Since October 2023, Israeli authorities have carried out hundreds of strikes on schools sheltering displaced Palestinians, including unlawfully indiscriminate attacks using US munitions, that have killed hundreds of civilians and damaged or destroyed…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A senior member of the European Union’s executive said the displacement and killing in Gaza looked very much like genocide, the first commissioner to level that accusation and publicly break with the body’s position on the conflict.

“If it is not genocide, it looks very much like the definition used to express its meaning,” Teresa Ribera – the European Commission’s second-highest ranking official – told Politico in an interview published on Thursday.

Israel has…