humanitarian crisis
Heartbreaking reality: Afghan father forced to sell his 9-year-old daughter to feed the family
While international humanitarian help has been suspended since the Taliban's takeover of the country in August, families cannot fulfill their basic needs and live in despair. The Daily Mail witnessed when Parwana Malik, a nine-year-old girl, is being sold by her parents to a stranger with a white beard and eyebrows, ...
UK universities terminate granted scholarships to Afghan students
The academic future of Afghan students in the U.K. is uncertain. Their scholarships are currently terminated because the Foreign Office can no longer administer their visas due to the crisis in the country. According to the Guardian, the Foreign Office informed of the postponement this month via a letter from the ...
Reporter asks Sen. Cruz to ‘wear a mask’: Cruz carries on, blaming President Biden for ‘humanitarian crisis’ at the border
A reporter asked Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) to please don a mask before speaking before television cameras during a Senate presser on Wednesday. "Would you mind putting on a mask for us?" asked the unidentified reporter. "Yeah, when I'm talking to the TV camera, I'm not going to wear a mask," Cruz ...
President Trump wants the press to ‘go in and see’ migrant detention centers
As President Donald Trump boarded Marine One, he told reporters on July 7, he wants “members of the press to go in and see” the migrant detention centers. The president’s comments came after a scathing report was published by The New York Times about conditions in U.S. southern border detainment facilities ...
Death of teenage migrant shows urgency of border crisis
The death of a 16-year-old Guatemalan boy who died in Customs and Border Protection (CBP) custody is prompting lawmakers and law enforcers to explain how something like this could happen, and how the system is at a breaking point. The head of the National Border Patrol Council, Brandon Judd, spoke to ...
Detained illegal immigrants moved to other US sectors from overcrowding
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials said that due to unprecedented overcrowding they have begun transporting hundreds of families by bus and aircraft from the crowded facilities to the less-crowded stations along the southwest border. CBP’s acting Commissioner John P. Sanders released a statement saying that the U.S. Border Patrol ...
Military escalation continues in northwest Syria
More than 100 Russian airstrikes have targeted Idlib and parts of neighboring province of Hama in recent days, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says
Heightened emergency at the border intensifies
The White House is seeking $4.5 billion in emergency border funding as the crisis at the border has reached a critical stage. Most of the money would go to aid Central American migrant families seeking asylum from poverty and violence in their home countries. These emergency funds would not go towards ...
Pentagon on US-Mexico mission: ‘How long will we be there?’
Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told Congress that the military needs to return to its traditional missions, and asked how much longer they will need to support The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) during a House Appropriations subcommittee on budget hearing in Washington on May 1. In a testimony to the ...
Yemeni artist’s murals depict costs of war
Haifa Subay, 28, is weaponizing her art to disseminate messages of peace at home and to try to bring the world's attention to the toll that war has taken
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