Since arriving emaciated in Italy from Gaza, little Shamm Qudeih has celebrated her second birthday and gained weight on a new diet that includes a special porridge — progress welcomed by doctors treating her for severe malnutrition worsened by a genetic metabolic disease. Just weeks ago, the toddler was all skin and bones as she clung to her mother in a hospital in southern Gaza, after months of being unable to get the food and treatment she needed because of an Israeli blockade aimed at pressuring the Hamas militant group to release hostages. Then she was evacuated to Italy for medical treatment,...

 U.K. deputy prime minister Angela Rayner resigned Friday after an independent inquiry found that she fell short of the standards expected of government ministers over a tax error on a recent house purchase. Rayner, who acknowledged on Wednesday that she didn’t pay enough tax on her purchase of an apartment in Hove, on England’s south coast, conceded that she should have sought more specific advice, while stressing that the report found that she had acted in good faith. “I take full responsibility for this error,” she said in her resignation letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. “I would like to...

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 Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov said Thursday he has ordered aviation authorities to further investigate what happened to a flight carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen amid suspicions it was disrupted by GPS jamming. The Bulgarian government has given contradictory statements in recent days about Sunday’s flight, and whether or not its GPS systems were jammed. The European Commission said von der Leyen’s plane lost its satellite GPS signal over Bulgaria in a suspected Russian operation, and has maintained its position as questions have grown this week about what exactly transpired. The plane landed safely at Plovdiv airport. Zhelyazkov said: “During...

The number of children and women who are survivors of sexual violence in Congo surged over four fold over the first half this year, Save The Children said on Thursday, amid a reduction in humanitarian support following aid cuts. The charity said it treated 2,702 child and women survivors of sexual violence between January and July, compared with 612 in the same period last year. Some survivors faced unwanted pregnancies, stigma and suicidal thoughts, it said. Congo’s health ministry has reported a 16% increase in cases of sexual violence to about 73,400 over the same period. Almost one-third involved girls...