Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Category: 2. World
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Powerful Ecuador drug lord ‘Fito’ extradited to US
The powerful Ecuadorean gang leader Adolfo Macías Villamar has been extradited to the United States to face charges of drug and arms trafficking.
Known as “Fito”, he was recaptured in June, almost a year after he escaped from a high-security…
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By cheering Israeli-US aggression, Germany confirms its deep-rooted hostility toward Iran
By Yousef RamezaniDuring the recent Israeli-American aggression against Iran, most European countries refrained from outright condemnation and opted for silence. Germany, however, went a step further by throwing its…
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Why Kenya’s forgotten indigenous vegetables are proving a culinary hit
Basillioh RukangaBBC News, Nairobi
AFP/Getty ImagesMrenda, being prepared here by a chef in Nairobi, has many more micronutrients than cabbage Once dismissed as wild weeds and a “poor man’s food”, indigenous leafy vegetables in Kenya are now…
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How Canada became the centre of a measles outbreak in North America
Nadine YousifBBC News, Toronto
Canadian PressCatalina Friesen serves with a mobile clinic in Ontario Morgan Birch was puzzled when her four-month-old daughter, Kimie, suddenly fell ill with a fever and rash.
At first, the Alberta mother assumed it…
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Kashmir’s summers are getting hotter, taking a toll on people and farms
Faisal BashirAn unrelenting heatwave has gripped Kashmir over the last few months Zaina Begum stood helplessly next to her withering paddy field.
A farmer in Indian-administered Kashmir’s Pulwama district, she had been waiting for rainfall for more…
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WW2 veteran and TikTok star ‘Papa’ Jake Larson dies aged 102
Tributes are being paid to American World War Two veteran and social media star Jake Larson, known online as ‘Papa Jake’, who has died at the age of 102.
Larson was among the Allied troops in D-Day who attacked Nazi Germany’s forces on the…
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Bedouins tell BBC they could return to fighting Druze
Jon Donnison and Rebecca HartmannMiddle East correspondent
Reporting fromSouthern Syria
BBCBedouin fighters have pulled back from Suweida following a ceasefire agreement Bedouin fighters positioned outside the southern Syrian city of Suweida have…
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British woman dies after rafting incident in French Alps
A British woman has died on a white-water rafting excursion in the French Alps.
The woman fell from her raft shortly after noon local time (11:00 BST) on Saturday on the Guisane river in Briancon, in south-eastern France, the regional prosecutor…
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