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AFP/APP Port-au-Prince: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on a rare visit to violence-ravaged Haiti on Thursday, heard guarded optimism as he promised $45 million in aid, urged greater international support for a new security mission,…

Asem Mustafa Awan Islamabad: The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) issued a stark warning last week, revealing that violence in Haiti has led to the forced displacement of one child every minute, on average.  With over 300,000…

AFP/APP Bridgetown:Hurricane Beryl brought devastating winds and heavy rain to several Caribbean islands on Monday as the earliest-ever Category 4 storm churned westward. Carriacou Island, which is part of Grenada, took a direct hit…

AFP/APP PortauPrince: Suffering from gunshot wounds to the leg and buttocks, 31-year-old Olivier Vilminio sought treatment in a hospital in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince. But even there, he was not safe from a surge of gang violence…

AFP/APP Portau Prince: The police academy in Haiti's capital came under attack by an armed gang Tuesday as the tiny Caribbean nation fell into deeper international isolation in the wake of an assault on the airport and a deadly prison…

AFP/APP Portau Prince : Haiti's government declared on Sunday a state of emergency and a nighttime curfew in a bid to quell a wave of violence sparked by a gang assault on the capital city's main prison that allowed thousands of inmates to…

\News Desk Geneva: In a new alert, the World Health Organisation (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that more countries now face cholera outbreaks, increasing numbers of cases are being reported, and the outcome for patients is…

News Desk ISLAMABAD: Globally, 2.1 billion people still lack access to safe drinking water, and 4.5 billion people have no adequate facility for safely managed sanitation services, said Pakistan Council for Research in Water Resources…

News Desk Islamabad: Political will and pecuniary support are needed to combat war, climate change, famine, and the food crisis as humanitarian needs worldwide increase, and be ready for the next emergencies that inevitably lurk around…

Wraa Noor Islamabad: The recent severe flooding in parts of Pakistan has left some 3.4 million children in need of aid for being at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning, and malnutrition and more than 1.6 million of the 6.4…