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An Israeli airstrike has killed seven aid workers in Gaza, threatening to set back efforts to open a maritime corridor for aid from Cyprus to help ease the desperate conditions in northern Gaza.

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A mission of mercy, then a fatal strike: How an aid convoy in Gaza became Israel’s target
By JACK JEFFERY, JULIA FRANKEL AND WAFAA SHURAFA - Associated Press
Wed,04/10/24-11:04PM , 34 Reads
DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — It was hours after sundown when the eight aid trucks drove from the makeshift jetty, cobbled together from tons of wreckage left across Gaza by months of war.
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Chhem Hay, 37, stands at a main door of her house under construction at Run Ta Ek village in Siem Reap province, Cambodia, on April 2, 2024. She decided last June to take the opportunity to move from the village where she'd lived since she was a young teenager to the new settlement. Cambodia's program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they're doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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Cambodia's relocation of people from UNESCO site raises concerns
By DAVID RISING - Associated Press
Wed,04/10/24-11:02PM , 144 Reads
RUN TA EK, Cambodia (AP) — It's been more than a year since Yem Srey Pin moved with her family from the village where she was born on Cambodia's Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site to Run Ta Ek, a dusty new settlement about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away.
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South Korea’s liberal opposition parties were expected to win a landslide victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary election, initial exit polls suggested, a result that if confirmed would make conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol a lame duck for his remaining three years in office.

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South Korea's prime minister and top presidential officials offer to resign after election defeat
By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press
Wed,04/10/24-9:03PM , 113 Reads
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s prime minister and senior presidential officials offered to resign Thursday after their ruling party suffered a crushing defeat in parliamentary elections in a blow to conservative President Yo
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In Comitancillo, Guatemala, two murals memorialize the nearly two dozen local migrants who died in mass tragedies en route to the United States. Yet even the siblings of those migrants continue to set off for the United States due to extreme poverty. (AP Video/ Moises Castillo and Giovanna Dell'Orto)

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Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives
By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO - Associated Press
Wed,04/10/24-7:00AM , 126 Reads
COMITANCILLO, Guatemala (AP) — Every night for nearly two years, Glendy Aracely Ramírez has prayed by the altar in her parents’ mud-brick bedroom where, under a large crucifix, is a picture of her sister Blanca.
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