In January, the UK’s first safer drug consumption facility opened in Glasgow. At The Thistle – as it’s been christened – people can now come and inject their drugs in safer conditions, and under ...

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While St. Patrick's Day is mostly a day of celebration – it also gives us an excuse to learn more about Irish history. In his new book, "Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine," Historian ...

Not much is known about the subject of the historic photograph. The oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor was taken by photographer John Gregory Grace in 1853. The man, a laborer ...

Aid staff say they face arbitrary delays, can't get permits UN accuses RSF of interfering with humanitarian operations Army blamed for impeding aid during two-year war March 25 (Reuters) - A ...

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‘Blame matters,” writes Padraic X Scanlan in his new book, Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. “The suffering of so many people, subjects of what was certainly the most powerful country on ...

The civil war has forced millions of people from their homes and aid agencies describe it as the world’s worst humanitarian and displacement crisis. We spoke to Kristine Hambrouck, the United ...

How poor Irish Catholics were forced to choose between converting to Protestantism or starvation during Ireland's Great Hunger and how "take the soup" became etched in Ireland's psyche. As we ...

Fatehiyya Mohamed Adam is a Sudanese refugee who first fled war in 2023 and then lost everything after an accidental fire ripped through this refugee camp along the Chad-Sudan border. HIAS, a ...

GENEVA, Feb 27 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation ...

Norway made clear that it will continue supplying fuel for U.S. Navy ships after a private marine fuel supplier threatened to boycott the U.S. in response to deteriorating U.S.-Ukraine relations.