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LIMASSOL, Cyprus (AP) — After setting off from Cyprus, a ship loaded with 1,200 tons of food supplies for the Gaza Strip was approaching the Israeli port of Ashdod on Tuesday in a renewed effort to alleviate the worsening crisis as famine threatens the Palestinian territory. The...

COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh -- Looming cuts to food aid will have a "devastating" effect on the estimated million Rohingya living in sprawling Bangladeshi refugee camps, community leaders from the stateless minority said Saturday. The UN World Food Programme announced Friday it would cut back its...

Peace talks with the communist rebels will not prevail if they would not stop the atrocities against troops and other people, President Duterte declared Monday. President Duterte delivers a public address from Davao City on June 7, 2021. (Malacañang) The President issued the statement after...

The Quezon City Police District (QCPD) has cleared Quezon City councilor and majority floor leader Franz Pumaren of violation of any heath protocols after the food aid distribution that he organized in Barangay Old Balara last May 25. Pumaren earlier said that around 6,000 people trooped to the...

In the midst of the hunger crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Health (DOH) partnered with International Care Ministries (ICM) to quickly deliver life-saving food relief to more than 30,000 children during the COVID-19 community quarantine. Since July, the DOH dispatched...