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DJIBOUTI

139 migrants dead, 84 missing in boat capsize

At least 139 migrants were killed, including children, and at least 84 people remained missing after a boat sank off the shores of Djibouti overnight on Thursday and Friday, a UN agency said on Sunday. Survivors said the vessel — which was carrying 350 people from Djibouti to Yemen — capsized north of the Djibouti town of Obock, according to a statement from the International Organization for Migration, whose teams were on the ground alongside local authorities to provide emergency assistance. More than 80 people survived the shipwreck. "Poverty, insecurity and the growing impacts of climate change drive many to undertake this journey, despite mounting instability across the Middle East," the IOM said.

INDIA

Capital braces for second day of protests

New Delhi braced for a second day of youth protests demanding the resignation of India's election chief on Sunday, as a court ordered the release of "cockroach" movement founder Abhijeet Dipke and two other senior leaders. Dipke, the founder of the Cockroach Janta Party, and the other leaders were detained when their plane landed in Delhi on Saturday as the movement planned to gather thousands of people at Jantar Mantar in Central Delhi. Police detained more than 2,000 people and locked down Delhi's city center to thwart Saturday's protest, and thousands of police and paramilitary personnel continued to be deployed across the city on Sunday although metro stations reopened and mobile internet services were back up. Most of those detained on the first day of protests were released late on Saturday night, police said.

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