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  • Cyclone kills 38, displaces 53,000 in Madagascar

    Cyclone Enawo has killed at least 38 people and injured 180 in northeast Madagascar, according to officials. The cyclone, which made landfall on the Indian Ocean island on Tuesday, has also driven more than 53,000 people from their homes, the country's disaster management agency said on Saturday. The new death toll issued by the agency was significantly.. More

  • Famine 'largest humanitarian crisis in history of UN'

    The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries at risk of starvation and famine, the UN humanitarian chief has said. Stephen O'Brien told the UN Security Council on Friday that "without collective and coordinated global efforts, people will simply.. More

  • Myanmar 'unlikely' to face UN probe on Rohingya abuses

    Myanmar looks set to escape an international investigation into atrocities against its Rohingya minority, after the European Union decided not to seek one at the UN Human Rights Council, a draft resolution seen by Reuters news agency showed. The EU takes note in the draft resolution seen on Wednesday, of "the very serious nature of the allegations".. More

  • Muting mosque bill gets initial thumbs up in Israel

    A law to muffle mosques' amplified calls to prayer in Israel and occupied East Jerusalem won preliminary approval on Wednesday in a charged parliamentary session where Palestinian legislators denounced the measure as racist. Supporters of the bill say it is aimed at improving the quality of life for people living near mosques who have been losing sleep.. More

  • Hungary passes bill to detain all asylum seekers

    Hungary's parliament has approved the automatic detention of all asylum seekers in container camps at the country's southern borders, despite a fierce backlash from human rights groups. Under the new legislation, asylum seekers entering Hungary and those already in the country will be detained or moved to the container camps. Earlier this year, Prime.. More

  • State of Hawaii to challenge Trump's new travel ban

    The state of Hawaii has said in a court motion that it plans to seek a temporary restraining order on Wednesday against President Donald Trump's new executive order restricting travel from six Muslim-majority countries. The Trump administration this week issued the revised immigration order replacing an earlier, more-sweeping one which had been blocked.. More

  • Palestinians protest against 'extra-judicial killing'

    Protesters have marched in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank calling for justice after Israeli security forces killed a 31-year-old Palestinian activist. The march came late on Monday, a day after Basil al-Araj was killed by Israeli troops in a house in al-Bireh, on the outskirts of Ramallah. Two other Palestinians were wounded by gunfire in subsequent.. More

  • North Korea bans Malaysians from leaving in murder row

    North Korea has barred Malaysians from leaving the country, sparking tit-for-tat action by Malaysia, as police investigating the murder of Kim Jong-nam sought to question up to three men hiding in the North Korean embassy. After Pyongyang announced the move, Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak swiftly called for the immediate release of its citizens,.. More

  • Syria: Regime raids kill 9 in Idlib, Homs

    At least nine civilians were killed and dozens injured in regime attacks on opposition-held areas in war-torn Syria on Saturday, according to a civil defense official and residents. A regime warplane struck residential areas in Al Dana town in the northwestern Idlib province, civil defense official Yahya Jawad said. “Eight people were killed.. More

  • Erdogan lashes out at Germany over rally bans

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday lashed out at Germany after Turkish ministers were barred from holding public rallies in two German cities ahead of the April 16 referendum in Turkey. Speaking at a meeting of the Women and Democracy Foundation (KADEM) in Istanbul, Erdogan accused Germany of repeating past Nazi habits. "They do not.. More

  • 130 migrants apprehended off Turkey's Aegean coast

    At least 130 migrants were apprehended off Cesme in western Turkey's Izmir province as they attempted to reach the nearby Greek island of Chios on Sunday, Turkish Coast Guard officials said. A Turkish Coast Guard search-and-rescue ship found two boats with migrants trying to reach Greece. Among them were women and children from Syria, Iraq, Iran,.. More

  • 'Syrian' warplane crashes near Turkish border

    A Syrian regime military plane crashed in Turkey near its border with Syria, the Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu said. The plane crashed in the Turkish province of Hatay on Saturday, the news agency said, quoting provincial governor Erdal Ata as saying police and medical teams were at the crash site. "The plane's cockpit was empty. We believe.. More

  • UN: Alleged Mosul chemical attack amounts to war crime

    Twelve people, including women and children, are being treated for possible exposure to chemical-weapons agents in Mosul, where ISIL is fighting off an offensive by US-backed Iraqi forces, according to the UN. The UN's World Health Organization said in a statement on Saturday that with partners and local health authorities it activated "an emergency.. More

  • Hassan Ali Khaire: Hunger, disease kill 110 in two days

    Somalia's prime minister has announced the deaths of at least 110 people due to hunger and diarrhea in the country over the past 48 hours amid a drought in the Bay region. The announcement by Hassan Ali Khaire on Saturday followed the Somali government's warning last week that the drought amounts to a national disaster. "It is a difficult situation.. More

  • Somalia declares national disaster in face of famine

    Somalian President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on Tuesday declared a national disaster, according to a statement, as severe drought gripped the nation. The development follows the declaration of a famine in South Sudan as food shortages threaten more than 20 million people in Somalia, South Sudan, Yemen and Nigeria. Only in Somalia has a famine alert.. More