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The European Commission announced on Thursday that it had allocated €153 million ($183 million) in emergency aid to Ukraine and Moldova, which is hosting refugees.
The Commission said that in responding to the urgent needs, the EU is allocating an initial €145 million ($173 million) in humanitarian aid for Ukraine to provide protection assistance, shelter, food, cash assistance, psychosocial support and access to water and health services, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.
Another €8 million ($9.5 million) in Moldova will support hosting Ukrainian refugees who have fled the war with Russia.
“After more than a decade of hostilities and almost four years of full-scale war, the people of Ukraine continue to endure immense suffering,” it said.
It noted that because of Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, millions are “exposed to freezing temperatures.”
“This week, 447 power generators, worth €3.7 million ($4.4 million), have been delivered to restore electricity to hospitals, shelters and other critical services,” it said.
Another 500 generators are being deployed, all from rescEU strategic reserves, to help keep essential services running, it added.
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Doctors Without Borders warned on Thursday that sexual and gender-based violence has sharply increased in Haiti in recent years, with women and girls increasingly subjected to brutal practices.
Haiti is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere, with swathes of the country under the control of rival armed gangs who carry out murders, rapes and kidnappings, News.Az reports, citing France24.
“Sexual and gender-based violence has surged in Haiti’s capital since 2021, and is being used systematically to terrorise the population,” Doctors Without Borders, which goes by its French initials MSF, warned as it published a fresh report based on 10 years of data and testimonies from its clinic in Port-au-Prince.
MSF said its Pran Men’m clinic had “borne witness to the impact of Haiti’s descent into violence and of its hollowed-out health, security, and judicial mechanisms on the bodies of women and girls”.
The clinic had over the past decade treated nearly 17,000 survivors of sexual violence – 98 percent of whom were women and girls – including 2,300 in just the first nine months of 2025.
Nearly one-fifth of the survivors treated at the clinic had suffered multiple instances of sexual violence.
“The number of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence who receive care at the clinic has almost tripled from an average of 95 admissions per month in 2021 to more than 250 in 2025,” MSF head of mission in Haiti Diana Manilla Arroyo pointed out in a statement.
MSF highlighted a “shocking increase in the brutality of the violence” it was seeing.
Fifty-seven percent of survivors who have received care at Pran Men’m since 2022 reported being assaulted by members of armed groups, and often by multiple perpetrators, it said.
MSF said that over 100 patients reported being assaulted by 10 or more perpetrators at a time.
“They beat me and broke my teeth,” one 53-year-old survivor was quoted as saying in the report.
“Three young men who could have been my children … After raping me, they raped my daughter … and beat my husband.”
The report warned of persistent shortcomings in survivors’ access to services amid lacking funding for protection services.
Other barriers, including financial difficulties and insecurity, also prevent survivors from swiftly accessing care, it said.
This can have dire medical consequences, it warned, pointing out that only a third of survivors treated at its clinic since 2022 arrived there within three days of their assault, beyond which time it is no longer possible to prevent HIV transmission.
MSF called for more funding and for the “unequivocal recognition of the widespread nature of sexual violence and its deliberate use by armed groups as a tool to control and subjugate women and girls”.
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Trump’s persistent territorial ambitions regarding Greenland, an autonomous territory of Denmark, sparked the most significant crisis in NATO’s history since its founding in 1949.
The mayor of Greenland’s capital called on media professionals and content creators to act responsibly on Thursday after a failed attempt by a German comedian to hoist the US flag, News.Az reports, citing foreign media.
Bavarian comedian Maxi Schafroth, 41, attempted to run the Stars and Stripes up a flagpole near the cultural centre in Nuuk, before he was confronted by angry passers-by.
When questioned, he claimed to be a US official before leaving to disapproving looks from locals, according to an journalist for the AFP news agency who was at the scene.
He was reported to the police and fined, local media said.
Avaaraq Olsen, mayor of Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq district which includes the capital, was outraged.
“Raising a flag at our capital cultural centre, the flag of a military superpower that for weeks has been implying military force against our country, is not a joke,” she said in a statement.
“It is not funny. It is immensely harmful.”
Olsen said Greenlanders, particularly children, were worried and afraid about the current situation.
“When you amplify those fears for content, clicks or laughs, you are not being bold or creative,” she said.
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