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Hurricane Irma pounds southern Florida
Hurricane Irma bore down on southern Florida on Sunday with 210kph winds, flooding Miami streets and knocking out power to more than 2.1 million homes and businesses. Even before it came ashore, Florida was feeling Irma's fury with at least three people killed, a woman forced to deliver her own baby, and trees and apartment towers swaying in high winds. The.. More -
More than one million S. Sudan refugees in Uganda: UN
South Sudan's brutal civil war has forced more than one million people to flee to neighboring Uganda alone, with another million seeking refuge elsewhere in the region, the UN's refugee agency said Thursday. Over the past year, an average of 1,800 South Sudanese have arrived in Uganda every single day, it said. South Sudan, the world's youngest nation,.. More -
North Korea delays plan to fire missiles toward Guam
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will watch the United States "a little more" before deciding whether to execute a plan to fire ballistic missiles towards Guam, the North's state-run media said Tuesday.Pyongyang unveiled its strategy to strike close to the Pacific island of Guam -- home to 7,000 American troops and key military hardware --.. More -
UN: Nearly 50,000 stranded at Jordan-Syria border
Nearly 50,000 people, most of them women and children, are stranded at Syria's southern border with Jordan, an increasingly unsafe area where air strikes were reported in the last few days, the United Nations said on Monday. UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters that "some people are reportedly attempting to leave the area, risking further.. More -
Protests, vigils around US decry white supremacism
Protesters decrying hatred and racism converged around the United States on Sunday, saying they felt compelled to counteract the white supremacist rally that spiraled into deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. A "Moment of Unity" was held in Charlottesville, giving citizens a chance to offer prayers and support for the victims. Bouquets.. More -
Up to 50 refugees 'deliberately drowned' off Yemen: UN
Up to 50 refugees and migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia were "deliberately drowned" when a smuggler forced them into the sea off Yemen's coast, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday, calling the drownings "shocking and inhumane". International Organization for Migration (IOM) staffers found the shallow graves of 29 of the refugees.. More -
Protests over election fraud claim turn deadly in Kenya
At least five people have been killed in post-election violence in Kenya after opposition leader Raila Odinga claimed "massive" fraud in Tuesday's vote. Two people were shot dead in the capital Nairobi on Wednesday, said the city's police chief Japheth Koome, claiming they took advantage of the protests to steal. At least one more person.. More -
Four Palestinians wounded in Israel airstrikes on Gaza
At least four Palestinians have been wounded, one of them seriously, after Israel carried out airstrikes in Gaza. The strikes on Tuesday targeted three locations in Gaza, officials told Al Jazeera. The Israeli military said it carried out the airstrikes in response to a rocket fired toward Israel. Hamas spokesmen Hazem Qasem, however, rejected Israel's.. More -
'US-led coalition' air raids kill 29 civilians in Raqqa
US-led coalition raids on Raqqa in northern Syria have killed 29 civilians over the past 24 hours as American-backed forces battle the ISIL group, a monitor said on Tuesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said nine women and 14 children had been killed in coalition air raids on Raqqa city since Monday evening. It said 14 of.. More -
N Korea threatens missile strike on US territory Guam
North Korea said on Wednesday it is "carefully examining" a plan to strike the US Pacific territory of Guam with missiles, just hours after US President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with "fire and fury". A spokesman for the Korean People's Army, in a statement carried by the North's.. More -
Amnesty: Israel's ban on Al Jazeera a 'brazen attack'
Israel's decision to shut down Al Jazeera's operations in Jerusalem sends a "chilling message that Israeli authorities will not tolerate critical coverage", Amnesty International has said. "This is a brazen attack on media freedom in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories," Magdalena Mughrabi, Amnesty's deputy Middle East.. More -
UN sees early warning signs of genocide in CAR
Renewed clashes in the Central African Republic are early warning signs of genocide, the UN aid chief said on Monday, calling for more troops and police to beef up the UN peacekeeping mission in the strife-torn country. Some 180,000 people have been driven from their homes this year, bringing the total number of displaced in the Central African Republic.. More -
UN: Aid desperately needed to help two million displaced in Yemen
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has told Al Jazeera it desperately needs aid to help more than two million people internally displaced in Yemen, which has seen years of conflict devastate the country. The war-torn country is also facing a severe cholera outbreak and major food shortages. PHOTO CAPTION A cholera-infected girl lies.. More -
Iraq's PM rejects call to dissolve Shia militia
Haidar al-Abadi, Iraqi prime minister, has rejected a call by Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Shia leader, to dissolve a controversial militia, Hashd al-Shaabi, a Shia unit alternatively called the Badr militia, which was established in 2014 with the avowed purpose of fighting ISIL, also known as ISIS. "The Hashd al-Shaabi … is for Iraq and.. More -
Minnesota mosque bombed during morning prayers
A mosque in the US state of Minnesota was bombed early on Saturday, while worshippers gathered inside for morning prayers. No one was injured in the attack at the Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, but police say the imam's office had been damaged. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has launched an investigation into the attack, which took.. More
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