Doctors Without Borders

The Turkish Coast Guard has rescued 19 irregular migrants whose boats had capsized off the coast of the western province of İzmir, with teams recovering the bodies of seven others, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has said.

Italy's coastguard said Wednesday it had recovered six bodies after a migrant boat sank this week off the southern coast with more than 60 people reported missing, including many children.

Twelve people were rescued after the sailing boat sank around 120 nautical miles off the coast of Calabria overnight Sunday-Monday, although one of them died after disembarking.

War, climate change and man-made shortages have brought Sudan — a nation already facing a litany of horrors — to the shores of a water crisis.

"Since the war began, two of my children have walked 14 kilometres (nine miles) every day to get water for the family," Issa, a father of seven, told AFP from North Darfur state.

The last operating hospital in western Sudan's El-Fasher has been closed after an attack by paramilitaries trying to seize the key Darfur city, medical charity Doctors Without Borders has said.

War has raged for more than a year between the regular military under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

A sewage worker located a dead fetus via camera while working under a building owned by the Doctors Without Borders organization, police said on Monday.

The Doctors Without Border building is located on Solonos Street 140, in central Athens' Exarchia area, and police have launched an investigation into the matter.

Israel sent troops into a hospital in war-torn Gaza on Thursday where it said hostages may have been held, as medics warned the key medical facility was operating in "near impossible" conditions.

The leader of Hamas was expected in Cairo on Thursday for talks on a proposed truce in Gaza, as Israel kept up its offensive in the besieged Palestinian territory.

Hamas was reviewing a proposal for a six-week truce in its war with Israel, a source told AFP, after mediators gathered in Paris, with international efforts towards a new pause in the devastating war gathering pace.

The terrorist attack by Hamas on October 7 claimed the first media casualty of the war. Yaniv Zohar, known for regularly being first on the scene, has had a long career in the media, including the Associated Press and an Israeli newspaper. Hamas killed the video journalist and his family.

TRT World Forum 2023, which is being held for the 7th time this year, continues to host important figures on its second day. Among the prominent figures attending the second day panels were the Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Minister of Family and Social Services Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş, Turkcell CEO Ali Taha Koç, the President of Turkish Red Crescent Prof.

With tanks massed at the gates of Gaza's largest hospital, US President Joe Biden pressed Israeli allies to protect civilians, who on Tuesday were trapped inside with dwindling supplies of fuel and water.