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Middle East: Wounded children from war-torn Gaza airlifted to UAE

By Mumen KhatibB and Giuseppe Cacace: Clutching a blown-up surgical glove as a makeshift toy, a Palestinian child is stretchered onto a plane to Abu Dhabi -- one of the Gaza war's first evacuees to the United Arab Emirates for urgent medical treatment. In the dead of...

Niger: UN resumes humanitarian flights in Niger

The United Nations said it resumed humanitarian flights in Niger on Wednesday, suspended after a July coup in the country where more than four million people are in need of aid. "The UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) resumes domestic flights on Wednesday," the UN...

Turkey welcomes Palestinian cancer patients after they entered Egypt

More than two dozen Palestinian cancer patients, who had crossed from Gaza into Egypt, arrived in Turkey for treatment in the early hours of Thursday, Turkey's Anadolu agency reported. Two planes carrying the patients, many of them children, landed at Ankara airport...

Libya: Companies flock to Benghazi for reconstruction projects

More than 260 Libyan and international companies on Wednesday attended a forum in Benghazi organised by the country's eastern authorities with the hope of rebuilding the flood-ravaged city of Derna. On September 10, Storm Daniel hit the east coast of Libya, causing...

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