2026 General News Singles
Palestinian Amna Foujo mourns over the bodies of her two children, Abdullah, 10, and Awad Foujo, 13, who were killed along with others in overnight Israeli strikes, during their funeral outside Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 23, 2025.
A security guard breaks down in tears in a moment of tender humanity while witnessing the heartbreak of a distraught migrant woman and her children after her husband was detained by ICE at his immigration court hearing in New York NY on August 20, 2025. The family was inconsolable with despair. “Please help me. Take me too.” she wept as he was led away. Masked ICE agents and federal officers detain migrants during the Trump administration’s controversial mass deportation effort with family separations and traumatized children caught in the crossfire. After an arduous journey seeking asylum and the American dream, some react with anguish and tears, others walk quietly on their final steps to a new destiny at the Jacob Javits Federal Building. Security guards are tangled in the middle of ICE, migrants, observers, activists and press as courthouse dynamics play out in this new normal in America. Sometimes it is the quiet moments that resonate most profoundly in the collective conscience of a nation. There is a vast political divide. Some protest, decrying a lack of due process and a slippery slide into fascism. Others applaud. And daily, detentions continue.
The mothers of Danylo Nikittskyi, 15, left, and Alina Kutsenko, 15, who were killed by a Russian missile, grieve as they pay their final respects during a funeral ceremony in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, April 7, 2025.
Sixteen-year-old Ahmad stands on the steps outside his family’s apartment, looking at his father’s blood. Just hours earlier, he was left without a father when Israeli security forces shot and killed him with four bullets. They were searching for a suspected militant in a neighbouring building but instead shot the 42-year-old Majid Daoud, who had run up one floor and onto the rooftop terrace to find out what the shouting and noise from next door was about. Now a heavy responsibility rests on Ahmad, who must help support his mother and three younger siblings. The Al-Ain neighbourhood in Nablus has gained another martyr and another family in deep mourning.