Several migrant families with children bussed to a newly-opened shelter at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn re-entered a bus shortly after arriving at the massive facility on Sunday, telling the city they did not like the accommodations. City Hall confirmed some families did not want to come to settle at the shelter while acknowledging there … Read more
ISLAMABAD — ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghans fleeing Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation are sleeping in the open, without proper shelter, food, drinking water and toilets once they cross the border to their homeland, aid agencies said Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have left Pakistan in recent weeks as authorities pursue foreigners they say … Read more
JERUSALEM — The courtyard of al-Ahli hospital, where thousands of Palestinians had sought shelter or medical treatment, is now a blackened expanse of charred cars, stretchers coated in ash and shredded dolls. That’s all that remains after an explosion on Tuesday turned it into an inferno, tearing apart men, women and children, and burning people … Read more
WASHINGTON−Sen. Cory Booker was jogging Saturday in Jerusalem when the attacks began. As Hamas militants moved into Israel, as thousands of rockets were launched, the New Jersey Democrat was advised by his chief of staff to get back to his hotel, Booker said in a video Saturday evening on X, formerly Twitter. He took cover … Read more
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Volunteers in Bangladesh’s coastal districts had been utilizing loudspeakers to induce folks to hunt shelter on Saturday because the delta nation braced for an especially extreme cyclone, which is anticipated to slam ashore in Bangladesh and Myanmar within the subsequent 24 hours. U.N. businesses and support staff prepositioned tons of dry meals … Read more