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A Ukrainian far right group has demanded the resignation of the county’s interior minister while blocking roads around Kyiv in a protest following a fatal gun battle. Dozens of supporters of Right Sector are calling ...
In Germany at least two people have been killed in a drive-by shooting in northern Bavaria. A suspect is said to have opened fire from a Mercedes car close to Ansbach, near Nuremberg. Police say ...
The number of Syrians who have fled abroad since the outbreak of civil war in their country has risen to more than 4 million, the largest number from any crisis in almost 25 years, the ...
Three people, including a 9-year-old girl, were injured when gunfire broke out in Compton on Monday night, sheriff’s deputies said. The shooting was reported about 8:15 p.m. near Alondra Boulevard and Central Avenue, said Sgt. ...
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 ...
