Africa
In a speedy response to Liberia’s first confirmed cases of Ebola in more than three months, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has begun distributing emergency supplies in the affected communities including tents for isolating ...
The United Nations food agency has warned that the ongoing food crisis in Syria could deteriorate without a humanitarian pause in the conflict there. Speaking at a press conference in the Australian capital of Canberra ...
New cases of Ebola have been detected in Liberia, nearly two months after the West African country was declared free of the virus. The authorities are monitoring at least 100 people thought to have been ...
Just a third of police cases involving vulnerable British children are being handled to a satisfactory standard, a watchdog says. Police forces are still failing too many young victims of sexual abuse, according to a ...
There has been more serious disruption for people seeking to cross the English Channel via Calais after striking ferry workers again forced the French port to close. It led to long jams on approach roads ...
It will cost $2.3 billion to send to school the 34 million children and adolescents of conflict–affected countries who are currently not attending educational institutions, which is 10 times the amount being received from humanitarian ...
More than 470 people are now reported injured after a fire broke out during a party at a water park in Taiwan. This video captures the moment an unknown flammable powder exploded over a stage ...
United Nations officials have condemned the attack perpetrated by Al Shabaab militants against an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base. In a statement issued this afternoon by the UN spokesperson, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has ...
At least one person has been found decapitated, two people have been injured and 40 have been evacuated after what has been described as an attack at a “strategic” factory site near Lyon in south-eastern ...
ISIL Takfiris have reportedly killed at least 120 civilians since re-entering the Syrian border town of Kobani on Thursday. « According to medical sources and Kobani residents, 120 civilians were executed by IS (ISIL) in their ...
