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“We are the United States of America, and we should be leading the world in this fight”.

Some 400 Syrians on the brink of death must be urgently evacuated from Madaya to receive medical treatment, the United Nations said after the first deliveries of aid in months arrived in the besieged town.

Pressed into crisis mode, Secretary of State John Kerry led USA diplomacy to free the sailors.

Park on Wednesday urged North Korea’s only major ally, China, to help punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test with what she called “the strongest” possible worldwide sanctions that could force change in the North.

At least one child was killed and several others missing after an avalanche hit a school group in the French Alps Wednesday, police said.

Sierra Leone had been declared free of the virus on November 7.

Earlier on Thursday (Friday NZT), a French official said that the students may have skied ahead of their teacher. The ski slope was closed by a 50-meter long (164 feet) net with advisory in different languages that the group stepped over, Coquillat said.

Satellite images showed Hurricane Alex, a well-defined tropical storm, churning in the open Atlantic, closer to Africa but at about the latitude of Jacksonville, North Carolina.

A suicide bomber of Syrian origin blew himself up in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet district on Tuesday morning, killing 10 tourists, majority Germans, in an attack blamed on Islamic State (IS) jihadists.

A quickly developing tropical cyclone in the middle of the Atlantic has become Hurricane Alex, the first hurricane to form in January since 1938. According to the US National Hurricane Centre, this is the first January hurricane in the ocean since 1938, and has been dubbed...

Israeli prosecutors brought formal charges Sunday against two Jewish Israelis accused of killing three Palestinians, all members of one family, in an arson attack in July.

The cross-border broadcasts began at noon local time (03:00 GMT) and an official said the military had heightened the level of alert around the locations of the loudspeakers.

In a statement, the health ministry said a “serious accident” occurred at a private laboratory in the city of Rennes, and that all trials of the drug have been suspended there.

Doctors in the town say that people’s average nutritional intake has fallen to 0.5 percent of what is needed, and local aid agencies report that more than 50 people have already died of starvation and lack of medical care.

In a meeting that is being seen as politically significant, Congress President Sonia Gandhi today visited PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti here to offer condolences on the demise of her father and former Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.