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Doctors in Gaza have told Sky News that the situation is “catastrophic”, and disease is spreading through refugee camps, particularly among children.So many of the hospitals in Gaza are now either closed or close to breaking point, that doctors have set up treatment tents on streets, with the little supplies they can get their hands on.Middle East latest updatesDr Rajaa Okashah is a paediatrician from northern Gaza, forced by the fighting to leave his home and move south to Rafah.It’s only a professional dedication to medicine and a sense of duty to his fellow Gazans that keeps him going. His…

Chaos ensued in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince on Sunday, with connectivity disruptions following an attack on the country’s main penitentiary which left most of its inmates at large. Gang leader Jimmy Cherizier, a former police officer, has claimed responsibility for a surge in violent attacks which have engulfed the country recently. He said the aim was to oust Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Henry was in the meantime in Kenya to shore up security support in facing the gang violence. Due for return, the prime minister’s whereabouts remain unknown. What do we know about the jailbreak? The latest in the string of violence was…

NASCAR bosses have revealed the glove driver Joey Logano during last weekend’s qualifying in Atlanta.Managing director Brad Moran showcased the glove to reporters after it was found in Logano’s car. Fellow driver Denny Hamlin had suggested it was found following a tip-off by a rival team. Logano wore the glove on his left hand, placing it outside the window of the car during last Saturday’s qualifying, in a move suspected of helping to create an aerodynamic blocker.It was black and webbed with an unknown material between every finger to optimise its effects.Logano’s rival Corey Lajoie said in Las Vegas on…

Following allegations by the government of Israel that a dozen staff members of the 13,000 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza were involved in October’s attack in Israel, the European Commission suspended payments to the aid organization for one month. On October 7, 2023, Hamas — which the European Union, Germany and other governments have designated as a terrorist organization — led attacks in Israel that resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,200 people and the taking of more than 200 hostages. In response, Israel launched an assault on the besieged enclave which has since…

US vice president Kamala Harris has said there must be an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza as she called on the Israeli government to do more to increase the flow of aid, with “no excuses”.Ms Harris said a six-week ceasefire would get Israeli hostages out and get a significant amount of aid into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory. She said Israel needed to increase the flow of aid to ease what she described as “inhumane” conditions and a “humanitarian catastrophe”.Middle East latest – Houthis vow to sink British shipsThe vice president also said there is a “deal on the table” and Hamas…

Moscow was waging an “information war” against Germany by intercepting and releasing a sensitive discussion among high-ranking Bundeswehr military officers concerning Ukraine, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said. Reacting to the leak for the first time on Sunday, Pistorius accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of seeking to sow disunity and create divisions within Germany. “It is about using this recording to destabilize and unsettle us,” the German minister said, adding that he “hoped that Putin will not succeed.” Pistorius told reporters in Berlin the audio leak was part of Russia’s attempt to sow divisionImage: Matthias Schrader/AP/picture allianceThe head of Russian state broadcaster…

Police in Belgium arrested four teenagers on Sunday after they allegedly exchanged messages to plot a jihadi terror attack. The four suspects — three minors in their “late teens” and an adult man aged 18 — were arrested when police raided home addresses in Brussels, Ninove, Charleroi and Liege. A spokesperson for the federal prosecutor’s office told the AFP news agency that the details of the alleged attack were deemed “worrying enough to intervene.”  “It’s not that they were planning something tomorrow, but still imminent enough to intervene,” spokesperson Eric Van Der Sypt said.  Police raided the suspects’ homes and…

Pakistan’s newly-formed parliament has elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s prime minister for the second time.Mr Sharif won 201 votes from Pakistan’s National Assembly, comfortably ahead of Omar Ayub, the candidate backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan, who secured 92 votes. It means the 72-year-old will resume the role he had until August, when parliament was dissolved and a caretaker government was put in charge until last month’s elections.Mr Sharif was named premier despite his elder brother Nawaz Sharif winning a seat in parliament and being favourite for the top job.Nawaz did not want to lead a minority…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz met Pope Francis on Saturday at the Vatican for a private audience. Although the two leaders have met before, the Saturday visit was their first private face-to-face meeting. They talked for around 30 minutes in the Apostolic Palace, discussing the situation in the Middle East and Russia’s war in Ukraine as well as the response to migration.The two leaders met amid continued fighting in both Ukraine and GazaImage: Vatican Media/REUTERS The German leader said it was an “important conversation at a time when it crucial for us to look to the future with a clear view and have clear principles.” “For…

Around 170 people were “executed” in attacks on three villages in northern Burkina Faso a week ago, a regional prosecutor said on Sunday. Ouahigouya prosecutor Aly Benjamin Coulibaly said he had received reports of attacks that happened on February 25 in the villages of Komsilga, Nodin and Soroe in Yatenga province. Survivors of the attacks told the AFP news agency that dozens of women and young children were among the victims. Many others were left wounded, Coulibaly added. He said his office ordered an investigation and appealed to the public for information. ‘Coordinated’ attacks around the country There were a number…