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India and Pakistan floods: Thousands still marooned

18 Sep 2014
Hundreds of thousands of people remain stranded in India and many more have been warned to leave their homes in Pakistan amid some of the worst flooding in the region in decades. The death toll in…

Syria: IS selling Christian women as ‘spoils of war’

18 Sep 2014
US airstrikes and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters helped rescue thousands of Yazidis stranded on a mountaintop in northern Iraq. But hundreds of Yazidi girls and women were captured by IS during the prolonged ordeal, and are now…

Somalia: Al-Shabab claims deadly bombing

18 Sep 2014
At least 12 people were killed and 27 others wounded when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle packed with explosives into an African Union convoy near Afgoy, southwest of the Somali capital Mogadishu, a local governor…

Libya: 250,000 people flee fighting as Islamist group takes over

18 Sep 2014
Fighting between rival groups in Libya's main cities has displaced 100,000 people, and caused another 150,000 to flee the country, a United Nations report said today. Numerous human rights abuses, including indiscriminate killing and abductions, took…