Gaza has ‘significant trauma needs’, UN says
World Health Organization says 8,538 people injured across Gaza with 30 health facilities damaged during 11-day Israeli bombardment.
A ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Friday.
The Egyptian-brokered ceasefire came into effect in the early hours of Friday after 11 days of relentless Israeli bombing of the besieged enclave and thousands of rockets launched into Israel by Hamas, the group ruling the Strip.
Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank poured onto the streets to celebrate the ceasefire, waving flags and flashing the “V” sign for victory.
‘Brazil is a global pariah’: Lula on his plot to end reign of ‘psychopath’ Bolsonaro
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Brazil’s former leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left no doubt he was planning a finale to a dramatic political career
Brazil can be rescued after being turned into a Covid-stricken global outcast by its “psychopath” president Jair Bolsonaro, the politician best placed to defeat him in next year’s presidential election has insisted.
In an interview with the Guardian, Brazil’s former leftist leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – who is widely tipped to challenge Bolsonaro for the presidency after regaining his political rights – stopped short of explicitly confirming he would run. But Lula, who rose from rural poverty to become Brazil’s first working-class president, left no doubt he was plotting an extraordinary finale to one of the world’s most enduring and dramatic political careers.
Andrei Sakharov's path from bombmaker to human rights icon
Celebrations for the 100th birthday of Nobel Peace Prize winner and Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov will mainly be in the West. In Russia, his fame has faded even as his experiences are increasingly relevant today.
The Sakharov Center in Moscow had been hoping to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the famous Soviet nuclear physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov with a photo exhibition. But authorities denied permission for the exhibition to take place, citing technical reasons. The center called the decision "shameful" and said that there was a "sad future" ahead for a country that ignored the legacy of "one of its best sons."
But Sakharov's position as a Soviet dissident was not clear from the beginning of his career, according to Karl Schlögel, a German historian specialized in Eastern Europe.
As official toll mounts, true Covid death figure elusive
While the official number of deaths from Covid-19 has topped 3.4 million globally, experts say this is undoubtedly an underestimate.
But by how much? And how can we know the true death toll of the pandemic?
Scientists are working tirelessly to try to find an answer to that question, which if found would be crucial in evaluating the historic impact of Covid-19 -- not to mention lessons to learn for the next global killer.
As the US and Russia spar over the Arctic, Putin creates new facts on the ground
Updated 1111 GMT (1911 HKT) May 21, 2021
The Russian military plane touched down in heavy wind and light snow, then slid across the icy tarmac.
Alabama overturns decades-old ban on yoga in schools
Yoga can legally be taught in Alabama public schools, after the southern state overturned a nearly 30-year ban.
The state's department of education had barred yoga in 1993, citing its connection to Hinduism.
The bill, brought for the third time by a Democrat, was approved by the state's Republican legislature and governor.
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