The UN refugee agency UNHCR has warned that a funding shortage could leave a million refugees across Iraq and Syria without proper help as they prepare for winter, a spokesman said on Tuesday.
A Canadian-born immigrant to Israel has become the first foreign woman to join Kurds battling the Islamic State group in Syria, a Kurdish source said on Tuesday, as details of the volunteer's turbulent past surfaced.
An attack against a mosque in a West Bank village early on Wednesday started a fire that destroyed its first floor, the village's mayor said, blaming Jewish settlers for the attack.
Mexicans furious at the presumed massacre of 43 students set fire to the ruling party's headquarters in Guerrero state and briefly took a police commander prisoner on Tuesday as growing protests rocked Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's government.
Health workers on the front line of the Ebola crisis say the need for urgent help continues, as the US Congress begins considering President Barack Obama's $6.2 billion emergency aid request to fight the disease.
The family of the first patient diagnosed with Ebola in the US and the only person to die of the disease in the country has reached a resolution with the Dallas hospital that treated him.
Climate change targets are at risk because fossil fuels are set to meet most of the increased global demand for energy, and conflicts could wreak havoc with supplies, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Iran has confirmed it tested a new centrifuge that could speed up its enrichment of uranium but dismissed suggestions the move may have violated last year's nuclear deal with world powers, as suggested by a US think tank.
In the 1930s, Cangkou county in northwest Qingdao became a thriving industrial and transportation hub.
As part of the government's efforts to build Qingdao Traffic Business District and improve living conditions for residents, more than 5,000 households near the newly built Qingdao North Railway Station were relocated to new high-rise apartments.
To preserve and make full use of local culture and history, the Qingdao Traffic Business District authority renovated the century-old, State-owned No 6 Cotton Textile Factory into the M6 Virtual Reality Industrial Park, which has 16 virtual reality programs.
Resembling a gigantic flying seagull, the Qingdao North Railway Station opened in January is the largest transportation hub in Shandong province.
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