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Global crises are fueling hunger in Africa and the Middle East, with trade tensions, conflicts, and climate change driving food inflation, according to the UN's SOFI report.

Firefighters battled blazes across Turkey on Monday as the country sweltered in a summer heatwave across much of the Mediterranean, with wildfires leading to at least 14 deaths in the country in the past week.

In Belem, the UN climate summit will bring global leaders face to face with the harsh realities of climate change and inequality.

The Taliban want to be included in U.N. climate talks

Rights groups B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel said on Monday that they had concluded the war in Gaza amounts to a "genocide" against Palestinians, a first for Israeli NGOs. Both organisations are frequent critics of Israeli government policies, but the language in their reports issued on Monday was…

The European Commission is tabling the suspension of Israel's access to the EU's Horizon Research fund as a consequence of the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It comes after an accord between the two sides for Israel to substantially increase aid to Gaza has not materialised, say EU sources.

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Monday said food must not be used as a weapon of war as world leaders gathered for a food summit in Africa, where 280 million people face hunger and starvation.

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Hundreds of titles removed from shelves for being ‘against national interests’, reports Mukhtar Wafayee

Several of the world’s largest aid organisations have warned of a devastating humanitarian crisis in the enclave

Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force. Plus, US readers on the financial stress delaying milestones

Racism in South Korea remains a major social issue. A viral video showing a migrant worker being tied in bricks and lifted by a forklift highlights this problem.