Heavy rain triggers massive floods in North Korea
Reuters :More than 1,100 homes in North Korea were damaged, thousands of people evacuated, and farms and roads washed away after days of heavy rains...
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Over 2m children go hungry in conflict-hit northeast Nigeria
Al Jazeera :At least 2.3 million children and youth are going hungry in northeastern Nigeria where escalating violence has forced farmers to flee their fields...
UN appeals for funds in Myanmar
Reuters :The UN World Food Program (WFP) warned on Friday it may not have enough funding for the next six months to help millions of...
Hezbollah says it fired ‘dozens’ of rockets toward Israel
AFP :Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said it fired “dozens” of rockets on Friday at open areas of the disputed Shebaa Farms district, drawing retaliatory Israeli strikes...
US to allow visitors from HK to stay for 18 months
BBC Online :Thousands of Hong Kong residents are to be offered a temporary “safe haven” in the US, President Joe Biden says.Mr Biden said that...
Wildfire leaves California town in smoldering ruins
Reuters :The main thoroughfare in a historic California gold-rush town was in smoldering ruins on Thursday, hours after the state’s largest wildfire engulfed the hamlet...
Haiti requests UN commission to probe president’s killing
Reuters :Haiti’s government has requested help from the United Nations to conduct an international investigation into the killing last month of President Jovenel Moise, the...
Chaos in Manila as thousands rush to get vaccine before lockdown
Al Jazeera :The Philippine capital and several nearby provinces have headed back into a strict lockdown in a bid to curb the spread of the...
Uneasy calm in Indian Kashmir
Reuters :Troops patrolled the streets on Thursday in Srinagar, the main city of Indian Kashmir, where many shops were shut to mark the second year...
Kidnappers demand ransom to free Nigerian school children
Reuters :Kidnappers are demanding a ransom of one million naira each to release around 80 children snatched from a boarding school in northern Nigeria last...
Global Covid cases top 199 million
International Desk :The overall number of global Covid cases has now surpassed the 199-million mark as the world continues to grapple against the devastating second...
India sees 348 custodial deaths in three years
Scroll.in :No fewer than 348 people died in police custody in different parts of India in the last three years, when at least 1,189 were...