2024 Breaking News

Palestinians mourn their relatives killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, in the hospital in Khan Younis, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023.

On February 6, 2023, southeastern Turkey and northwestern Syria are hit by two powerful earthquakes. More than 100,000 buildings collapse or become uninhabitable, and millions of people are affected by the destruction. In Turkey alone, more than 50,000 people die and more than 100,000 are injured. The sounds of weeping and sorrow mix with the noise from the excavators working nonstop on one of Kahramanmaraş’ old commercial streets where all the buildings have collapsed. The area is packed with relatives and friends of victims still hidden in the rubble. They are comforting each other, while waiting for their loved ones to be dug out. As time passes, the hope of rescuing anyone alive dwindles. Most must be content with the certainty that comes when they are asked to identify the bodies. 10.02.2023

Oleksii Lukov 37 from the Ukrainian humanitarian mission ‘Black Tulip’, sifts through earth on the front line for personal belongings after he exhumed the body of a fallen Ukrainian soldier laid out on a sheet of white plastic with personal belongings found and numbered beside him. They search, exhume, and retrieve bodies of soldiers who have died in battle, as Russia's attack on Ukraine continues, in Yampil, Ukraine, January 2, 2023. "Black Tulip" exhume bodies of both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers on the battlefield and trades the bodies of deceased Russian soldiers they find for the bodies of deceased Ukrainian soldiers to return to their families.

EL PASO, TEXAS - MAY 08: Immigrant families cross into the United States from Mexico to seek asylum on May 08, 2023 in El Paso, Texas. A surge of immigrants attempting to cross into the U.S. is expected with the end of the Covid-era Title 42 border enforcement policy this week.