US restores $6.8 million aid for Tibetans, State Department says

July 8, 2025 11:53 AM

US restores $6.8 million aid for Tibetans, State Department says

The United States has restored $6.8 million in funding for Tibetans in South Asia, the U.S. State Department told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming comments by Tibet's government-in-exile. The aid had been cut by President Donald Trump's administration as part of its "America First" policy that hit a number of programmes, including those aimed at securing food and preventing the spread of HIV in some of the world's poorest regions. Last week, the leader of the Tibetan government in-exile in India...

Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say

June 18, 2025 10:52 AM

Israeli tanks kill 59 people in Gaza crowd trying to get food aid, medics say

Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks in Gaza on Tuesday, killing at least 59 people, according to medics, in one of the bloodiest incidents yet in mounting violence as desperate residents struggle for food. Video shared on social media showed around a dozen mangled bodies lying in a street in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Israeli military, at war with Hamas-led Palestinian militants in Gaza since October 2023, acknowledged firing in the area and said it w...

Deadly break in at UN warehouse as aid trickles into Gaza

May 29, 2025 12:08 PM

Deadly break in at UN warehouse as aid trickles into Gaza

A United Nations warehouse in war-torn Gaza was broken into by "hordes of hungry people" on Wednesday as aid trickles into the Palestinian enclave on the brink of famine and the United States readies new terms for a possible truce between Israel and Hamas. The World Food Programme said initial reports were that two people had died and several more were injured at the central Gaza warehouse. The U.N. agency appealed for an immediate scale-up of food aid "to reassure people that they will not sta...