Up to 20,000 people have fled eastern Aleppo over the past 72 hours as Syrian government forces continued to advance in the rebel-held part of the city, according to the Red Cross. Terrified civilians have fled empty-handed into remaining rebel-held territory, or crossed into government-controlled western Aleppo or Kurdish-held districts. The 20,000 figure is an …
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Iraq’s Kurdish peshmerga security forces have unlawfully destroyed Arab homes and villages in northern Iraq over the past two years in what may amount to a war crime, rights group Human Rights Watch said on Sunday. Kurdish peshmerga fighters are part of a 100,000-strong Iraqi alliance, backed by U.S.-led air strikes and advisers, that is …
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One of the leading figures of the child pornography network in Norway received three years in prison for confessing and pleading guilty to the crime. According to Norwegian broadcaster TV2, the 24-year-man was sentenced to three years and eight months in prison by Bergen County Court for sexually abusing 18 children in Norway. His victims …
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last remaining food rations are currently being handed out in Syria’s rebel-held eastern Aleppo and there will be nothing left to distribute next week without a resupply, the UN said Thursday. United Nations aid convoys have not reached the besieged eastern part of Aleppo since July, when regime forces cut off the last supply route. …
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Scores of demonstrators were arrested on Tuesday as U.S. fast-food and airport workers led nationwide ‘Fight for $15’ protests calling for higher pay and union rights in their first major action since Donald Trump was elected president. Trump, an international property developer and reality TV star with no government experience, swept into power with promises …
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Donald Trump’s election victory means the Palestinian people will never have a state of their own, a Right-wing Israeli government minister has said as he hailed the demise of a “two-state solution” in the Middle East. Naftali Bennett, Israel’s education minister, is a champion of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank and released a …
Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said rebel-held parts of Aleppo had received no aid since the beginning of July, and food was becoming scarce. Supplies provided by the World Food Programme ran out on 13 November and aid from other agencies is dwindling, “effectively leaving eastern Aleppo city without food,” he said. The UN said it is …
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ANTI-IMMIGRANT arsonists are suspected of trying to burn down a ‘new Sangatte’ centre for the homeless in one of the most upmarket areas of Paris. The attack on the £4m buildings – which opened in the 16th arrondissement on Saturday – happened while families were inside, including young children. It is the second attack on …
Israel has failed to launch a single criminal investigation for torture despite more than 1,000 complaints by victims since 2001. Last week, the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz revealed that the justice ministry unit responsible for investigating torture complaints, known by its Hebrew acronym Mivtan, employs only one investigator. Mivtan “has never launched a single criminal …
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In the final day of closing arguments at former Bosnian Serb military chief’s trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague on Tuesday, the defence refuted the charge that Ratko Mladic’s troops terrorised the population of Sarajevo during the 1992-95 siege of the city. Mladic’s defence lawyer Dejan Ivetic argued …
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