Hamas has formally rejected Israel’s latest ceasefire offer, saying it is prepared to immediately negotiate a deal that would see the release of all remaining hostages in return for an end to the war and the release of Palestinian prisoners. In a video statement, Hamas’ chief negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, said: “We will not accept partial deals that serve [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s political agenda.” Fifty-nine hostages remain in captivity and 24 are thought to be alive. Israel’s latest offer involved a 45-day ceasefire in return for the release of 10 hostages. Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said it...

More than half of Haiti’s population is expected to experience severe hunger through June, and another 8,400 people living in makeshift shelters are projected to starve, according to a new report released this week. Relentless gang violence and an ongoing economic collapse is to blame, according to an analysis from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a multi-partner U.N. initiative that analyzes food insecurity and malnutrition around the world. It noted that the number of those facing severe hunger increased by more than 300,000 people to some 5.7 million since last year. Among those going hungry is Jackie Jean-Jacques, his wife and...

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Inibehe Effiong, the Human Rights lawyer that helped secure 17 year old Quadri Yusuf Alabi from Kirikiri correction centre after more than three months incarceration, has appealed to Nigerians to financially support to the family, as their present community is unsafe for them. Recall Alabi was the boy in the Peter Obi 2023 iconic photo during his Lagos presidential campaign, however the boy was abducted on his way back from work in January by some street hoodlums and handed over to the police for not sharing his cash gift with them. Effiong whom has been instrumental in his release disclosed...

 U.S. airstrikes targeting the Ras Isa oil port held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed 38 people and wounded 102 others, the group said early Friday. The strikes, confirmed by the U.S. military’s Central Command, represent one of the highest reported death tolls so far in the campaign launched under President Donald Trump that has involved hundreds of strikes since March 15. The Iranian-backed Houthis later Friday launched a missile toward Israel that was intercepted, the Israeli military said, causing sirens to sound in Tel Aviv and other areas. The war in Yemen meanwhile further internationalized as the U.S. alleged a Chinese satellite...

When a 20-year-old opened fire at Florida State University, terrified students barricaded doors and fled across campus, abandoning chemistry notes and even shoes, in a shooting that investigators said killed two men and wounded at least six others. By early Friday, memorials of candles and flowers dotted the campus and a school-wide vigil had been scheduled as students and faculty tried to start healing from the previous day’s shooting, which sent shockwaves of fear across the campus. “I heard some gunshots and then, you know, just blacked out after,” said Carolina Sena, a 21-year-old accounting student who was inside the student union...

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele allows alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia out of prison to meet with Sen. Chris Van Hollen Bukele wrote on 𝕏: “Kilmar Abrego Garcia, miraculously risen from the ‘death camps’ & ‘torture,’ now sipping margaritas with Sen. Van Hollen in the tropical paradise of El Salvador.”