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Displaced Palestinians Trek Home to Northern Gaza as Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Holds: Live Updates

Displaced Palestinians Trek Home to Northern Gaza as Israel-Hamas Cease-Fire Holds: Live Updates

They marched for hours in flip-flops and sandals, bags of clothes dangling from the crooks of their elbows. They trudged for miles with toddlers in their arms, mattresses slung from their shoulders. Old men hobbled on crutches, children pushed wheelchairs and one young boy dragged his earthly possessions on a sled. For nearly 16 months, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians …

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80 Killed, Thousands Displaced In Colombian Guerrilla Violence

80 Killed, Thousands Displaced In Colombian Guerrilla Violence

A fresh outbreak of guerrilla violence amid a faltering peace process in Colombia has left more than 80 people dead, including civilians, and displaced around 11,000 in just four days, officials reported Sunday. As residents fled for their lives, the army deployed some 5,000 troops to the cocaine-growing Catatumbo region at the center of a fast-escalating territorial war. The National …

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After Celebrations, Displaced Gazans Return Home To Destruction

After Celebrations, Displaced Gazans Return Home To Destruction

Columns of people hundreds strong were making their way home in northern Gaza on Sunday, flanked on both sides by countless buildings turned to rubble, as a ceasefire took effect in the Palestinian territory. In places, they crossed an ashen landscape, heaped with pulverised concrete and studded with the skeletons of ruined buildings. They walked towards the northern city of …

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Los Angeles Wildfires: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle open California home for displaced friends, deliver aid

Los Angeles Wildfires: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle open California home for displaced friends, deliver aid

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex joined California wildfire relief initiatives on Friday — delivering aid and interacting victims at a meal distribution site. with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have also opened their Montecito home to friends who have been displaced by the deadly blaze. At least 11 people were killed this week as flames ripped through entire neighborhoods …

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