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UAE ‘Readies’ Airstrip Off Yemen To Aid US Attacks? Houthis Vow To Answer ‘Reckless Collaboration’

The UAE is reportedly preparing an airstrip off Yemen to support U.S. attacks, with the Houthis vowing retaliation for the “reckless collaboration.” :00 INTRODUCTION03:52 ‘MYSTERIOUS AIRSTRIP OFF YEMEN READY’06:13 HOUTHI OFFICIAL BEHIND HEBREW ‘ANTI-ISRAEL’ POSTS BACK? n18oc_world n18oc_crux

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Medical supplies in great need as aid flows into Myanmar after earthquake : NPR

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese rescuers arrive at the Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar on Saturday, March 29, 2025. Haymhan Aung/AP/Xinhua hide caption toggle caption Haymhan Aung/AP/Xinhua BANGKOK — Emergency aid has streamed into Southeast Asia in the two days since a massive earthquake struck Myanmar and Thailand. Relief efforts

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Myanmar Quake Toll Soars Past 1,600, Several Still Missing; India Ramps Up Aid With Field Hospital

Last Updated:March 29, 2025, 21:09 IST Myanmar Earthquake: MEA on Saturday said that India is sending a field hospital with 118 personnel from Agra to Myanmar. Myanmar Earthquake: A 118-member Indian Army Field Hospital unit is en route to Mandalay from Agra | Image/X Myanmar Earthquake: The death toll from the powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake in

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Myanmar Earthquake Aid Complicated by Its Isolation

Myanmar’s long isolation and its internal instability are likely to complicate the global humanitarian aid response to the earthquake that struck on Friday, despite a rare plea for outside help from the country’s military-dominated government. “We need and want the international community to provide humanitarian aid,” said the military spokesman, Gen. Zaw Min Tun. “We

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Lithuanian, Polish troops aid in ‘search and recovery’ for 4 missing US soldiers

The Polish military has established a group to assist the Lithuanian Army and U.S. Army in a recovery operation for four U.S. Army soldiers who disappeared early Tuesday during a training exercise near Pabradė, Lithuania. The soldiers, based in Fort Stewart in Georgia, were riding in an M88 Hercules armored recovery vehicle on a scheduled

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As U.S. foreign aid grants get slashed, Greenland gets money for a dog race : NPR

A musher walks with his Greenlandic sled dogs after completing a dog sled race to determine which contestant attends the national competition on March 8 in Ilulissat, Greenland. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joe Raedle/Getty Images Second lady Usha Vance has scrapped a plan to attend Greenland’s national dog sled race this week.

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Health

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries but Continue Some H.I.V. and TB Aid

The Trump administration intends to terminate the United States’ financial support for Gavi, the organization that has helped purchase critical vaccines for children in developing countries, saving millions of lives over the past quarter century, and to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat malaria, one of the biggest killers globally. The administration has

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US cuts to HIV aid will cost millions of lives

Imogen Foulkes BBC Geneva correspondent AFP US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned. It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight against HIV, which has seen the number of deaths

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Lebanon, Ravaged by Israel-Hezbollah War, Needs Changes to Unlock Aid

On his first day in office, Lebanon’s new finance minister, Yassine Jaber, sat at his desk reading a color-coded report on the dire state of the ministry’s operations. Nearly everything was marked in alarming red. The computers were decades old — some still ran on Windows 98. Like much of the government, the ministry relied

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Politics

Trump administration ends funding for migrant children’s legal aid

President Trump’s administration on Friday ended a federal contract that provides legal representation to nearly 26,000 migrant children who entered the United States without a parent or guardian, a move immigration attorneys say will leave children vulnerable to rapid deportation. The contract provided funding for attorneys to represent minors who are under the custody of

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