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Human Rights Watch has accused the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen of committing war crimes, saying its air strikes killed 39 civilians including 26 children in two months. The rights group says five air strikes that hit four family homes and a grocery store were...

Mr Slater said that he had to earn the trust of the monkeys over several days before venturing close enough to get the selfie A photographer has won a two-year legal fight against an animal rights group over a "monkey selfie" photograph. Naruto the macaque monkey...

  In November 2016, Denise Wallace, Executive Co-Director of the Miss Minnesota USA pageant got a phone call from 19-year-old Halima Aden, a freshman of St. Cloud State University asking if she could compete – while wearing her hijab. It was the first time Ms Wallace...

SINGAPORE: Former Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob is set to be Singapore’s first Malay president in more than 47 years, after the Elections Department (ELD) said on Monday (Sept 11) that only one individual qualified for the inaugural reserved Presidential Election. Among those who submitted...

Ethiopians today (September 11) usher in New Year with bright and colourful decorations in the capital, Addis Ababa and other cities and towns across the country. Nationals enter the year 2010 according to the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar, which is nearly seven years behind the Georgian...

Armed group attack Bula Hawo on the Kenya-Somalia border claiming they killed dozens of soldiers. Heavy fighting erupted on Monday in the Somali border town of Balad Hawo near Kenya after al-Shabab detonated a suicide car bomb and then stormed the military base there, the...

By:Hibaaq Osman, Contributor The presidency of Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo is only eight months old but already his administration faces its first crisis - and it is one of their own making. For a country that has experienced years of civil war, division and instability, one...

'Humans are all the same, religions does not make us different ... we are all human and all born equal.' by:Katie Arnold Mohammed Soye, 33, comes from Buthidaung town in Rakhine State, Myanmar, which he fled 10 days ago. I was a farmer in Buthidaung township, just like every...

"We are citizens of Myanmar, if they were to declare us citizens, we would be very happy. This is what we want." by:Katie Arnold Jashim, 12, comes from Rakhine State, Myanmar, which he fled 13 days ago. My names is Jashim and I am 12 years old....

Dual nationals might not be welcome in Australia's parliament – the Barnaby Joyce citizenship saga has reminded us all of that. But meet Ibrahim Ahmed Reigal, an Australian who sits in the parliament of Somaliland. Mr Reigal divides his time between his constituency in the breakaway...