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Gaza's War Amputees Short of Prostheses Under Israeli Restrictions
Rohingya Survivor Recounts Ordeal as 250 Missing in Andaman Sea Tragedy
At Beirut Hospital, Grieving Families Identify Mangled Bodies After Israeli Strikes
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Medical Needs Surging in Iran and Supplies Under Threat, Red Cross Warns
Date: April 2, 2026
By Emma Farge GENEVA, April 2 (Reuters) - Emergency medical needs in Iran are rising exponentially, and stocks of trauma kits and other gear could run low if the war persists, the head of the...
Italy Recovers 19 Bodies From Migrant Boat, Survivors Taken to Lampedusa
Date: April 1, 2026
ROME, April 1 (Reuters) - Italy's coast guard recovered the bodies of 19 migrants and rescued 58 survivors from a boat that broke down while trying to cross to Europe from Libya, rescue officials and...
Orphaned by Israeli Strike, Syrian Girl in Beirut Wants to Return to Friends and School
Date: March 31, 2026
By Raghed Waked and Thomas Suen BEIRUT, March 31 (Reuters) - A month ago, Nariman al-Issa's life was like any 12-year-old's: she played with toys and rode her bicycle in Beirut's southern suburbs. Her...
Unrwa Head Seeks Investigation Into Killing of Staff in Gaza War
Date: March 31, 2026
GENEVA, March 31 (Reuters) - Discussions are under way for a U.N. investigation into the killing of more than 390 employees in the two-year Gaza war, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency...
Displaced Mothers in Lebanon Welcome Babies' New Lives With Hope and Fear
Date: March 27, 2026
By Catherine Cartier and Emilie Madi BEIRUT, March 27 (Reuters) - When Israeli strikes rained down on southern Lebanon in early March, Hawraa Houmani, 29 years old and almost nine months pregnant,...
In Lebanon, Paramedics Mourn Their Own Killed in Israeli Strike
Date: March 25, 2026
By Abdelaziz Boumzar and Yara Nardi NABATIEH, Lebanon, March 25 (Reuters) - Wearing identical uniforms, a dozen paramedics gathered around a pair of caskets in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh,...