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Pallets with 50% more supplies than first boat, Open Arms, being loaded in CyprusMiddle East crisis – latest updatesThe charity sending food aid to Gaza on a ship travelling across the Mediterranean from Cyprus is loading a second boat with supplies, which it hopes will set off in the coming days.Pallets containing 300 tonnes of food aid – 50% more than the first shipment...

‘You need drivers, trucks and a distribution system that doesn’t exist,’ says president of Refugees International aid advocacy groupThe US plan to build a floating port off the Gaza coast is a bold move, reminiscent of the Mulberry harbours built after D-day in Normandy, but there are serious concerns that what relief it brings will be too little too late for Palestinians facing starvation.“When...

President accused of allowing country to become a target because of ‘complicity in bloodshed of Gaza’The Cyprus government is facing growing criticism over British military bases on the island being used by UK and US forces to stage airstrikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.President Nicos Christodoulides has been accused by activists of turning a blind eye to the risks the EU’s most easterly...