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Debris Found Off Nantucket as Search Continues for Six Aboard Canadian Air Ambulance Jet

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Debris Found Off Nantucket as Search Continues for Six Aboard Canadian Air Ambulance Jet

The Gulfstream G100 lost contact early Saturday on a flight from Bermuda to Boston; the cause has not been established. NANTUCKET, Mass. — The Nantucket air ambulance search entered its second day on Sunday, with U.S. Coast Guard crews still looking for six people after finding debris from a Canadian medical jet in the Atlantic. The Coast Guard has confirmed the debris is linked to the aircraft, which disappeared early Saturday, October 3, 2026, while flying from Bermuda to Boston. Four Canadians and two Bermudian nationals were on board, and their families have been informed. Officials had not announced that anyone had been found as of the latest reporting on October 4. What we know about the Nantucket air ambulance The Federal Aviation Administration said it issued a Search and ...

Aid Cuts Put Refugee Classrooms at Risk as 5.8 Million Children Remain Without School

2Oct

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Aid Cuts Put Refugee Classrooms at Risk as 5.8 Million Children Remain Without School

The number of refugee children out of school worldwide stood at 5.8 million in 2025, according to a new UNHCR report that warns shrinking aid budgets could shut millions more out of classrooms. The UN refugee agency says that is 44 per cent of the 13.1 million refugee children of school age. What the new UNHCR report says The annual report, titled Pathways to the Future: Education, Opportunity and Self-Reliance, was published on Friday 2 October. UN High Commissioner for Refugees Barham Salih, who spent years as a refugee himself, said education gave him opportunities that displacement might have denied, and summed it up as "Education is protection." UNHCR is asking international partners and development agencies to safeguard education funding and to invest in the national school ...

UNHCR Says 8.3 Million Displaced People Could Lose Aid as Funding Gap Reaches $5.8 Billion

29Sep

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UNHCR Says 8.3 Million Displaced People Could Lose Aid as Funding Gap Reaches $5.8 Billion

The UNHCR funding shortfall has left nearly 8.3 million refugees and other forcibly displaced or stateless people at risk of losing access to assistance this year, the United Nations refugee agency said on 29 September. UNHCR faces a gap of $5.789 billion against a 2026 requirement of $8.505 billion, and by the end of July it had received only 32% of that sum, roughly $2.7 billion. The warning comes in a 26-page report, "Protection Eroded: The Human Cost of Underfunding," published in Geneva. The 8.3 million figure is UNHCR's own estimate of people exposed to losing help, not a count of those who have already lost it. How the UNHCR funding shortfall grew Money available to the agency fell from $5.2 billion in 2024 to $3.9 billion in 2025, a drop of 24%. Reuters reported that the decl...

Nor’easter Flooding Triggers State Emergencies in New York and New Jersey

27Sep

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Nor’easter Flooding Triggers State Emergencies in New York and New Jersey

Nor'easter flooding swept through New Jersey's shore communities and parts of New York City on Saturday, forcing evacuation orders, downing trees and cutting power to tens of thousands of customers as a powerful coastal storm settled over the Northeast for a second consecutive day. Governors in both states moved ahead of the storm's arrival. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Friday covering Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester and New York City, warning of "dangerous coastal flooding, strong winds and potential power outages through the weekend." New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill placed eight counties, Atlantic, Burlington, Cape May, Cumberland, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean and Salem, under emergency status the same evening, telling residents to "take this storm seriously" and...

Yemen’s Displacement Crisis Is Outrunning the Aid Meant to Meet It

22Sep

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Yemen’s Displacement Crisis Is Outrunning the Aid Meant to Meet It

The Yemen displacement crisis crossed 130,000 people this month, and the number that should worry aid planners more is a different one: the UN's response plan for the country was funded below 20 percent before this latest wave of fighting even began. UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch laid out the trajectory in Geneva on Tuesday. Fighting is intensifying, he said, and "growing numbers of people" are expected to flee both inside Yemen and across borders into Djibouti and Somalia. His agency's own planning projections point to another 100,000 people displaced over just the next three months, a scale that would make this phase of the Yemen displacement crisis one of the worst in the country's recent history. Three days tell the story better than three months of projections do. The Internat...

Ceuta Migrant Crisis: Police Fire Shots at New Camp

19Sep

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Ceuta Migrant Crisis: Police Fire Shots at New Camp

Officers fired shots into the air on Friday morning as the Ceuta migrant crisis flared up again. Authorities had opened a fifth temporary reception site at the city's port, meant to finally move people off the beaches where thousands have been sleeping for weeks. Instead, the operation turned chaotic within hours: migrants who feared being left without a spot ran toward the new site, and police responded with batons and warning shots to regain control. The scenes are the latest flashpoint in a crisis that has been building since late July, when more than 70,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave from Morocco over the course of a single weekend — one of the largest irregular border crossings Europe has recorded in years. Roughly 5,000 to 13,000 migrants are still believed to be in C...

Nine Days Underground: Inside the Nepal Hydropower Tunnel Rescue

6Sep

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Nine Days Underground: Inside the Nepal Hydropower Tunnel Rescue

Sanjay Sah's first words after nine days trapped in the dark had nothing to do with the flood, the mud, or how close he had come to not making it out at all. Carried out on a rescuer's back, muddy and blinking in the daylight, the 30-year-old mechanical foreman asked a single question: "What day is it?" Nine days earlier, he and dozens of colleagues had been working inside a hydropower tunnel in Nepal's Rasuwa district when a wall of water, rock and glacial debris tore through the valley and buried the entrance behind them. This Nepal hydropower tunnel rescue - carried out on September 4 - became one of the few moments of relief in a disaster that had, by then, mostly stopped looking for survivors and started recovering bodies. The Flood That Swallowed a Mountain The disaster bega...

Nepal-Tibet Flash Flood: What Caused the Disaster That Killed Over 390 People

28Aug

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Nepal-Tibet Flash Flood: What Caused the Disaster That Killed Over 390 People

Before dawn broke fully over the Himalayas on Wednesday, August 26, a slab of ice perched more than five kilometers above sea level let go of the mountain beneath it - and within hours, a Nepal-Tibet flash flood had killed more than 390 people and left over 1,400 others unaccounted for on both sides of the border. What began as a geological event nobody saw coming has since exposed a harder truth: the region's flood-warning systems, built and refined over four decades, were never designed to catch a threat like this one. How the Collapse Happened Satellite imagery reviewed by scientists shows that a large section of the lower Langtang Lirung glacier sheared away at roughly 5,200 meters and fell close to 1,200 meters down the mountainside, picking up rock and loose sediment as it went...

Gaza Ceasefire Point of No Return: 3 Dead, Urgent Warning

28Aug

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Gaza Ceasefire Point of No Return: 3 Dead, Urgent Warning

Three Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli attacks across Gaza on Thursday, among them a man sheltering in a displacement tent. The deaths came just hours after the United Nations' top envoy for the territory warned the Security Council that the fragile truce is edging toward what he called a Gaza ceasefire point of no return. Nickolay Mladenov, high representative for Gaza on the US-backed Board of Peace, delivered the warning during a briefing on Wednesday. He told diplomats that a collapse of the ten-month-old agreement would leave the enclave with no framework left to salvage. A Warning Delivered to the Security Council Mladenov's message to diplomats in New York was blunt: the ceasefire is technically holding, but it is not yet reaching the people it was meant to prot...

Nasser Hospital Journalists Killed: One Year, No Answers

26Aug

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Nasser Hospital Journalists Killed: One Year, No Answers

One year has passed since the world watched footage of a "double-tap" strike tear through Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, and the families of the Nasser Hospital journalists killed in that attack are still waiting for a single clear answer. No officer has been named. No court has ruled. No formal accountability has followed - only a one-line description from Israeli officials calling it a "tragic mishap." On August 25, 2025, two Israeli strikes hit the hospital compound within minutes of each other. The first hit the fourth floor, where surgical units and doctors' quarters are located. The second struck a stairwell and balcony area that journalists regularly used to film and broadcast live from Khan Younis - a location rescuers and reporters had rushed to after the first blast. In total...

Qalandiya Training Centre Seized: 5th Raid Since May

26Aug

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Qalandiya Training Centre Seized: 5th Raid Since May

The Qalandiya Training Centre was stormed and seized by Israeli forces on Tuesday, August 25, shutting down the last operational UNRWA facility in occupied East Jerusalem and forcibly removing its staff. The centre sits between the Kafr Aqab neighbourhood and the Qalandiya refugee camp. It has provided vocational training to Palestinian refugee teenagers from across the West Bank since 1952. Ahead of the operation, Israeli forces shut the nearby Qalandiya checkpoint - the main crossing point between East Jerusalem and the northern West Bank. Heavy military reinforcements then moved into the surrounding neighbourhoods and refugee camp. According to a statement from UNRWA, at least four armored vehicles and more than 50 personnel entered the Qalandiya Training Centre compound at around 10...

8 Million Children Out of School in Sudan’s Forgotten War

22Aug

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8 Million Children Out of School in Sudan’s Forgotten War

More than three years into Sudan's civil war, roughly eight million school-age children remain outside a classroom. In Darfur alone, nearly three-quarters of school buildings have been damaged, destroyed, or put to other uses, the United Nations said this month. The figures mark one of the largest and least-covered education emergencies now unfolding anywhere in the world. Children out of school in Sudan are facing a fight for their future that most of the international press has largely stopped covering - echoing other overlooked emergencies this outlet has followed, from the missile strike that leveled a small Ukrainian village few outside it had ever heard of to the earthquake that quietly pushed Indonesia's death toll past 70. UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed delivered ...