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Thousands displaced by fighting around northern Afghan city
About 5,000 Afghan families have fled their homes in Kunduz after days of fighting between the Taliban and government forces, officials said ...Madagascar droughts push 400,000 toward starvation: UN
The U.N. World Food Program says southern Madagascar is in the throes of back-to-back droughts that are pushing 400,000 people toward starvation, ...Respect LGBT rights or leave EU, Hungary’s Orban told
Respect LGBT rights or leave the European Union, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told his Hungarian counterpart as the bloc’s leaders confronted ...Race to find survivors as death toll in Miami condo collapse rises, 159 missing
Rescue workers frantically scoured the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in a Miami suburb for signs of life on Friday, as ...First COVID-19 case could have emerged in China in Oct 2019 – study
The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case ...Northeast Nigeria conflict has caused deaths of 324,000 children: UN
A 12-year-old conflict in northeast Nigeria has caused the deaths of some 324,000 children under five, mostly from disease and hunger, the ...Ethiopian military says only combatants hit in Tigray air strike
Only combatants, not civilians, were struck in an air strike this week in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the country’s military spokesman said on ...Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino dies at age of 61
Former Philippine President Benigno Aquino, the son of two of the Southeast Asian country’s democracy icons, died in a Manila hospital on ...Russia says it chases British destroyer out of Crimea waters with warning shots, bombs
Russia said on Wednesday it had fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of a British warship to chase it ...China condemns latest U.S. warship transit of Taiwan Strait
China condemned the United States on Wednesday as the region’s greatest security “risk creator” after a U.S. warship again sailed through the ...