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A deadly disease so neglected it's not even on the list of neglected tropical diseases

It's called noma and is a disease of poverty, striking mainly children. Most patients die. Survivors are badly disfigured. Now there's a campaign to add it to the list of neglected tropical diseases

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Tommy Sheridan confirms 'much-loved' mum Alice's funeral arrangements after tragic flat fire

Alice Sheridan tragically lost her life after a blaze struck her flat in Cardonald. Her son Tommy thanked the public for their "warmth and kindness" and confirmed her funeral will be held next Tuesday.

Glasgow Live

Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Receives International President of MSF

Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Cabinet Member, and Climate Envoy Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir received in Riyadh on Thursday International President of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Christos Christou. The officials reviewed aspects of cooperation between Saudi Arabia and the MSF. They also discussed issues of common interest.

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's controversial fight against migrant boats setting sail to cross the Mediterranean

Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni puts her controversial stamp on the long-running war between the Italian government and charities saving refugees from shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.

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Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness heads to Haiti as gang wars threaten health care

Jamaica Prime Minister Andrew Holness is making a one-day visit to Haiti on Monday along with government ministers and ambassadors from two other Caribbean countries as part of a long-awaited visit to see how Caribbean leaders can help Haitians find their way out of their gang-ridden country’s crisis, which has…

Miami Herald

Mobile medicine: Providing healthcare to Ukraine's war-torn villages

Providing healthcare in Ukraine is a huge challenge not only on the frontline, but also in areas left ravaged by conflict. The Ukrainian army says it has re-taken around 1,000 towns and villages from occupying Russian troops. These are zones where mainly elderly, isolated locals remain. They need medication and…

France 24

Aid Group Issues Urgent Appeal for Quake-Hit Syria

The group Doctors Without Borders called Sunday for the "urgent scaling up" of earthquake aid to northwest Syria as it delivered a convoy laden with emergency assistance. Aid has been slow to reach Syria's rebel-held areas since the February 6 quake killed a combined total of more than 43,000 people…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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What you can do to help victims of the Turkey and Syria earthquake

Here are the charities working on the ground in Gaziantep and other affected areas.

The Independent UK

Turkey-Syria earthquakes: International aid guided by geopolitics

We bring you a special programme on one of the worst natural disasters to hit the Middle East in decades. Thousands have been killed after two massive earthquakes struck south-eastern Turkey and northern Syria on Monday. Relief efforts are still underway, with a host of nations sending aid, but time…

France 24

Mozambique's extremist rebels kill aid worker in north

Extremist rebels in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province have killed a worker for the international charity Doctors Without Borders, shortly after a former vice president of the organization was asked to produce a report into the humanitarian situation in the conflict-hit region

The Independent UK

Live Updates | Turkey, Syria earthquake kills thousands

The medical aid organization Doctors Without Borders says a staff member has been found dead under the rubble of his house in Syria’s Idlib province following the powerful earthquake that struck Syria and Turkey

The Independent UK

France urges release of 7 nationals imprisoned in Iran

France has called for the “immediate release” of seven French nationals detained in Iran

The Independent UK

"Go further north!" Italy exasperates migrant rescue boats

Right-wing Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is forcing migrant rescue ships to dock further and further north along Italy's coastline, meaning long journeys that raise their operating costs and strain their ability to continue saving lives.

Reuters

Italy rejects NGO ship's request for closer safe port

The Italian government has rejected a request from a ship run by Doctors Without Borders non-governmental organisation (NGO) to assign a safe port closer to the place where it rescued 73 migrants, an NGO official said on Sunday.

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Mexico shuts down large migrant camp in the south

The Mexican government has dismantled a massive migrant camp in the southern state of Oaxaca where tens of thousands migrants have cycled through to get temporary transit documents on their way to the United States border

The Independent UK

Italy allows 2nd aid group's migrant rescue boat to dock

Italy has given permission for a second humanitarian aid group's ship to disembark its passengers rescued in the Mediterranean at an Italian port

Reuters

Pressure mounts in giant Mexican migrant camp as U.S. expulsions ruled unlawful

Thousands of migrants are camping in squalid conditions in a remote southern Mexican town after U.S. and Mexican authorities implemented new policies aimed at stemming the illegal flow of Venezuelans into the United States.

The Independent UK

Haiti fears spike in cholera cases as fuel blockade lifts

Cholera cases are overwhelming Haiti as experts warn the situation could worsen now that the country is bustling once again after a paralyzing fuel blockade that lasted two months

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Uganda ends school year early as it tries to contain growing Ebola outbreak

Since the outbreak began in September, eight children have died — and there is no approved vaccine. But doctors are hopeful that public health measures may be enough to stop the spread.

Al Jazeera

Rescue charity to take Italy to court over migrant boats standoff

Italy’s new right-wing government has allowed only a select number of migrants to leave two rescue boats.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Group Warns of Rampant Violence in Syria Camp of ISIS Families

A sprawling camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of women and children linked to the ISIS group is witnessing pervasive violence, exploitation and lawlessness, an international aids group said Monday. Doctors Without Borders also said that countries with citizens held in the detention center of al-Hol in Syria’s…

Evening Standard

New right-wing Italian government refuses to let migrants rescued from Mediterranean to disembark

Italy ordered the Humanity 1 to vacate the port of Catania

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Under Giorgia Meloni, Italy is refusing safe port to 4 ships that rescue migrants

The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.

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Venezuelans who braved horrific jungle trek may now have to repeat it

Migrants who emerged from a two-week trek through the Panama’s Darién Gap found the US had slammed the door to asylum shut

The Independent UK

Cholera overwhelms Haiti as cases, deaths spike amid crisis

Thousands of people across Haiti are becoming sick with cholera as medical staff struggle to care for them despite dwindling supplies of fuel and water

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