Humanitarian aid/Disaster relief

US steps up aid to Cuba while choking off fuel supply

FILE PHOTO: People wait to buy food from a street kart in Havana, as Cubans from all walks of life hunker into survival mode, navigating seemingly interminable blackouts and soaring prices for food, fuel, and transport, while the United States threatens a stranglehold on the communist-run nation, Cuba, January 30, 2026. REUTERS/Norlys Perez/File Photo

Activists plan new, bigger flotilla to try to bring aid to Gaza

A flotilla of humanitarian boats departing from Sicily on Sept 27, 2025.

Singapore to contribute $44 million to IMF grants to help vulnerable countries

Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan said the contributions will not affect the Government’s domestic expenditure for Singaporeans.

Donors reluctant to fund US-led Gaza plan as Hamas disarmament push stalls: Sources

One senior European diplomat said that no European or Western country had yet committed funds to Gaza's recontstruction.

UAE pledges $500 million for Sudan aid as Washington gathers donors

UAE's Minister of State Lana Nusseibeh speaks to the media at Limassol port, Cyprus, where aid is accumulating for the people of Gaza, November 7, 2025. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

WHO says first five patients evacuated via Gaza’s Rafah crossing

A Palestinian man waves from a window as war-wounded people and patients, accompanied by relatives, get ready to leave Gaza for treatment abroad through the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt, after it was opened by Israel on Monday for a limited number of people, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 3, 2026.

WHO appeals for $1.27b for world’s worst health crises in 2026

The World Health Organization estimates that 239 million people would need urgent humanitarian assistance in 2026

WHO chief says turmoil following US exit creates chance for reset

Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says 2025 was “one of the most difficult years” for the WHO.

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Feb 2, 2026

A handout photo showing Iranian lawmakers dressed in Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) uniforms during a Parliament session in Tehran, Iran, on Feb 1, 2026.

Israel to terminate Doctors Without Borders work in Gaza for not providing Palestinian staff list

A Palestinian boy walks past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the al-Rimal neighbourhood of Gaza City.

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