Sri Lanka has responded to a distress call and provided medical help to 40 Iranian sailors from ships anchored near its waters. A foreign ministry spokesperson said the sailors were brought to the southern port of Galle on Saturday. After receiving initial medical treatment, they left Sri Lanka early Sunday. The Iranian oil tankers have been stranded off Sri Lanka for months due to a U.S. naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. This situation has led to shortages of food, water and fuel. The Sri Lankan government has been cautious, citing national interests and potential U.S. sanctions.
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Salvadoran farmer Raul Figueroa walks through a dried-up cornfield caused by a lack of rain in Tecoluca, El Salvador, part of the Central American Dry Corridor, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
Giovani Contreras shows the remains of a corn crop that failed due to a lack of rain in Texiguat, Honduras, part of the Central American Dry Corridor, Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Food and medical supplies have been scarce for months in Oleshky, which sits on the Dnipro River that separates Ukrainian forces from the city’s Russian occupiers. There’s no electricity, heat or running water. The roads around it are mined. Menacing drones buzz overhead. The city of 24,000, seized on the first day of the 4 1/2-year-old war, now has fewer than2,000 people. Some residents are fleeing on foot, walking for miles at their own peril. Oleshky now faces a humanitarian crisis. Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for the catastrophe. As another harsh winter looms, there is no agreement for a humanitarian evacuation.
A peasant loads food distributed by the World Food Program in Honduras’ drought-prone Dry Corridor, where the government declared a state of emergency over worsening drought conditions linked to El Niño in Nueva Concepción, Honduras, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
People line up to receive food aid distributed by the World Food Program in the drought-prone Dry Corridor, where the government declared a state of emergency over worsening drought conditions linked to El Niño in Nueva Concepción, Honduras, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
FILE - Lake Mead is seen on Sept. 3, 2026, in Boulder City, Nev. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Pilots Victor Torres from Mexico, right, and Jose Torres from Honduras fly an aircraft during a cloud seeding mission aimed at inducing rain as part of the Honduran government's efforts to address a prolonged drought at the Aguan river, in northern Honduras, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Mexican technician Juan Carlos Diaz operates equipment aboard an aircraft as it flies through the clouds during a cloud-seeding mission aimed at inducing rain as part of the Honduran government's efforts to address an extensive drought in Valle Siria, Honduras, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Volunteers distribute drinking water to people impacted by drought in Medirigiriya, Sri Lanka, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)