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Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least eight people and displacing more than 1.4 million others. CBC | World News
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Wild dogs, disease threaten displaced Gaza families living in landfill
In Al-Zawaida, in the central Gaza Strip, some families driven out of their homes by the Israel-Hamas war have set up shelter in a landfill. ‘I try to protect my kids. I don’t sleep so the dogs don’t come in on us,’ Omar Al-Far, 41, says. ‘There’s poison and the smell of dead animals.’ CBC | World News
Read More »Flash floods in Indian-controlled Kashmir leave 34 dead and over 200,000 displaced
Intense rains have left at least 34 people dead after lashing parts of Pakistan and India and triggering flash floods and landslides in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Wednesday. CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli strike kills at least 20 in Gaza school housing displaced people, health authorities say
An Israeli strike on a school housing displaced people in Gaza killed nearly two dozen people and injured dozens of others, local authorities told Reuters early on Monday. CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli airstrikes kill 23 in Gaza City school that houses displaced families, local officials say
An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced families in northern Gaza killed at least 23 people, while another hit a children’s hospital, local health officials said. CBC | World News
Read More »More than 1 million displaced in Haiti as gang violence rages, UN says
The United Nations migration agency says internal displacement in Haiti, largely caused by gang violence, has tripled over the last year and now surpasses one million people — a record in the Caribbean nation. CBC | World News
Read More »Israeli strike hits school sheltering displaced in Gaza City
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 17 Palestinians, eight of them at a school sheltering displaced families in Gaza City, medics said, as the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of a hospital in the north. CBC | World News
Read More »At least 28 killed in Israeli strike on school sheltering displaced people: Gaza Health Ministry
An Israeli airstrike on a school sheltering displaced people in central Gaza killed at least 28 people, including women and children, on Thursday, while three hospitals in the north were told to evacuate, putting patients’ lives at risk, medics say. CBC | World News
Read More »After seeking safety, displaced Lebanese hit by Israeli airstrike
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Read More »He lost his home and job, she sent her kids to Syria: Stories of some of Lebanon’s nearly 1 million displaced
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