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Yesterday about 15,000 Syrians were waiting on the Syrian side of Turkey’s Oncupinar border crossing and up to 50,000 more were on their way, an official with the Turkish disaster agency AFAD told reporters.

Kerry said the new US aid includes more than $600 million in food, shelter, water, medical care and similar relief for refugees from the war, and an additional $325 million in development assistance, directed primarily at youths in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon.

Thousands of prisoners across the country who were sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes committed when they were juveniles could soon have their sentences significantly reduced thanks to a United States Supreme Court ruling on Monday.

After meeting with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos at the White House, Obama announced additional funding and other measures he said would help Colombia rebuild after reaching a peace accord with the Marxist rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC....

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull Sunday said the wife of an elderly Australian doctor kidnapped by Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Burkina Faso has been released.

Earthquakes frequently rattle Taiwan, but most are minor and cause little or no damage.

“I regret to say that they will return home in wooden coffins”.

Representatives from Syrian opposition groups said they had a positive meeting with UN Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura on Monday.

A South Korean defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of office rules, says the South Korean military was tracking the rocket’s trajectory but gave no further details.

A total of 35 people nationwide have been diagnosed with the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the world’s largest free trade agreement, was officially signed in New Zealand on February 4.

Earlier UNs Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) said that Assanges stay at the embassy and his previous experience with the Swedish and British legal systems amounted to arbitrary detention by Britain and Sweden.

Chennai: At least 10 people were injured when several coaches of the Kanyakumari-Bangalore Island Express derailed in the early morning hours of Friday near Tirupathur in Tamil Nadu. Police said that arrangements are being made to transport the passengers to Bengaluru.

But both opposition and government representatives have since said talks have not in fact begun, and fighting on the ground has raged on without constraint. How many of them will there be – two, three, four?

The assault in northern Aleppo province, backed by hundreds of Russian air strikes there, has also prompted tens of thousands of people to flee towards the Turkish border and helped derail peace talks in Geneva.