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War-Damaged Gaza City Tower Collapses, Killing at Least 20 as Families Held Funerals Wednesday

18Sep

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War-Damaged Gaza City Tower Collapses, Killing at Least 20 as Families Held Funerals Wednesday

The Gaza City building collapse that leveled a six-story apartment tower overnight has killed at least 20 people and left dozens more trapped beneath the rubble in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood. By Wednesday, families were already burying their dead even as rescue crews kept digging through the wreckage with their hands, unable to reach everyone still calling out from underneath. The building, known locally as al-Saada, held four apartments on each of its six floors and had become home to roughly 100 displaced people, including about 50 children, according to the United Nations. Gaza's Civil Defense agency, which operates under Hamas authority, said the structure had already been cracked by an Israeli strike earlier in the nearly three-year war and had been structurally unsound ever sinc...

Opinion: The Flood That Made Headlines and the War Nobody Watches

6Sep

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Opinion: The Flood That Made Headlines and the War Nobody Watches

A tunnel in Nepal collapses, and within hours the world has a name, a face, and a countdown clock. A war in Sudan enters its fourth year, and most people could not say how many have died, been displaced, or gone hungry because of it. This is not a coincidence of timing - it is a pattern in how Sudan crisis media coverage compares to disasters like the Nepal floods, and it says less about the scale of suffering than about what kind of suffering the world has learned to watch. Two Disasters, Two Very Different Spotlights The Nepal floods that struck on August 26, 2026, were catastrophic by any measure. A glacier collapse above the Langtang valley sent flash floods and debris tearing along a stretch of the Trishuli River, killing more than 1,342 people in Nepal alone and leaving nearly ...

Nine Days Underground: Inside the Nepal Hydropower Tunnel Rescue

6Sep

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Crisis

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...

Al Shifa Hospital Strikes Test Gaza’s Fragile Ceasefire

2Sep

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Conflict

Al Shifa Hospital Strikes Test Gaza’s Fragile Ceasefire

The Al Shifa Hospital strikes that unfolded this week in Gaza City are the latest sign that a formal truce has not stopped the wounded from arriving at the enclave's largest medical complex. Doctors there spent Tuesday receiving casualties from a burst of Israeli air and ground activity in the nearby Al-Katiba district, a reminder that the hospital remains on the front line of a conflict a ceasefire was supposed to have ended. A woman and two children were killed and eight other people were wounded, according to the hospital's director, while a separate incident east of Deir al-Balah left another child dead from gunfire, medical sources told the Wafa news agency - details corroborated by The National's on-the-ground reporting. The bloodshed unfolded on September 1, roughly eleven months...

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 ...